These fields control the properties of websites that are defined in your system.
■ Open Site designer > Manage websites, select a website or create one (New > Website Navigation Item).
Tip: The Access Settings security options are the same throughout iMIS (see Using Access Settings). For best performance, use Preconfigured security sets.
Tips
■ Some of the file locations described in this section are expressed as root-relative URLs based on the root (~) of the physical path for the IIS application or IIS web site that hosts the CM website you are creating. For example, ~/App_Themes, which in a default installation of an iMIS application server would be C:\Program Files\ASI\iMIS\Net\App_Themes.
Status
Specifies whether this definition object is in a Working, PublishPending, Submitted, Published, Inactive, or Active state. Click the expand icon to view further details, including who created the record, who modified it last, and dates of these changes.
■ Content records in a Working state have been saved within the iMIS database, but the latest changes have not been made active on the associated CM websites by the associated publishing servers and their corresponding iMIS publishing service (AsiPublishing15). The Publish command on the toolbar queues the content record to the associated publishing servers, during which the content record is in a PublishPending state and can be viewed in the Pending Requests detail for the associated publishing servers. After each publishing server has successfully processed the publishing request, the latest changes become visible on the associated websites and become active within iMIS, both of which are denoted by the Published state.
If an iMIS user does not have content authority group (CAG) Content Approver permissions, they will see a Submit command instead of a Publish command. The Submit command queues a publishing request to the Content Designer Task List of all CAG members who have Content Approver permissions. (Alternatively, if workflow is enabled for the parent content folder, only those members of the content folder's assigned CAG who have Content Approver permissions.) Only a person with Content Approver permissions in at least one CAG can actually publish content records.
■ For all other definition objects, the publishing process is less complex and does not involve CAG permissions, publishing servers, or the iMIS publishing service. When the object is in a Working state, the latest changes have been saved within the iMIS database, but they have not yet been made active within iMIS. The Publish command makes the latest changes active within iMIS.
■ Websites in an Inactive state are offline so that browsers cannot view the website content, and instead see a 503 error (Service Unavailable) from IIS. Selecting the Is this website active? checkbox in the Status section of the website's definition puts the website in an Active state, enabling browsers to view the website content. Clearing the checkbox puts the website in an Inactive state.