Courses & Workshops

3351 Vignette Portal: Managing Server and Sites (v8.x)

Duration: 3 Days

This course examines the key features, functionality, and capabilities of Vignette Portal. Students take on three different roles: Server Administrator, Site Administrator and End User; understanding the capabilities and scope of each role. Students will review the process to create and configure Portal sites, users, groups, portlets, pages, and site navigation, as well as defining system-wide settings, perform imports, configure sharing and tailor the site’s appearance.

Managing Portal Server and Sites explores migration of sites between hosts, delegate administrative tasks to users, and localization. Using Portal’s embedded Content Access Management system (CAM), students will learn how to retrieve data from disparate content repositories and deliver that content to the most relevant users of a Portal site and to as well as to perform powerful searches on Portal sites.

Lastly, an overview of Vignette High Performance Delivery and overview of Vignette Community Services is presented to the students.

By the end of the course you will learn how to:

  • Label core Portal components
  • Create a Portal site
  • Add and manage users, groups, and permission flows
  • Create and permission portlets
  • Identify the differences between PortalBean, JSR286 and WSRP portlet types
  • Create and categorize Portal pages and populate them with content
  • Create and permission site navigation
  • Surface remote web content into the Portal with the WebConnector portlet
  • Share Portal content among multiple Portal sites
  • Customize the look and feel of a Portal site
  • Delegate administration to site users
  • Move a Portal site from one server to another
  • Localize a Portal site and its components
  • Troubleshoot basic Portal site problems
  • Use the Auditing Log to review End User Activity
  • Utilize the the embedded Portal Content Access Management (CAM) system
  • Create and configure a Federated Search portlet
  • Describe Vignette High Performance Delivery features and architecture
  • Describe Vignette Community Services

If you are interested in this course, you may also consider these courses:

  • 1350 Vignette Portal Overview
  • 4350 Vignette Portal:Developing JSR Portlets
  • 4351 Vignette Portal: Developing PortalBean Portlets
  • 3350 Vignette Portal System Administration
  • 4352 Vignette Portal User Interface Development

Audience:

The Foundation: Managing Server and Sites is designed for Vignette Portal Site Administrators, Vignette Portal Server Administrators, and Implementation Team Members.

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with Web servers and application servers.

Pricing

Format Currency Price
Per Student at Open Text Site: AUD 2400
Per Student at Open Text Site: BRL 2754
Per Student at Open Text Site: USD 2685

Taxes: All prices exclude VAT or other taxes where applicable (all currencies).

Extra expenses: Customer site course prices do not include instructor travel expenses, which are billed separately.

Reservations: Please provide a minimum of 3 weeks advance notice when arranging courses at customer sites.

Course & Workshop Calendar

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