About the CMS Administration Console

This chapter describes what tasks you can perform with the Content Management Subsystem Administration Console, or CMS Administration Console. It has these sections:

IMPORTANT: Along with exteNd Director, you must have Microsoft Internet Explorer Version 5.5 or higher installed for running the CMS Administration Console.

What CM tasks you can do with the CMS Administration Console

You can use the CMS Administration Console to perform all tasks related to managing content throughout its dynamic life cycle in the exteNd Director application.

The following diagram presents the recommended order and interaction of these tasks during a typical CMS Administration Console session:

orderOfOps

For more information on how to perform these tasks with the CMS Administration Console, see these sections:

Importing and exporting documents In addition to the CM tasks shown in the diagram above, the CMS Administration Console allows you to import and export documents.

For more information on how to import and export documents using the CMS Administration Console, see Importing and Exporting Content.

How to access the CMS Administration Console

You can access the CMS Administration Console by selecting Content Management from the Director Administration Console (DAC).

For more information For information about how to access the DAC, see the section on accessing the DAC in Developing exteNd Director Applications.

You are prompted to log in. Do so by entering your user name and password and then clicking OK.

NOTE: Check with your administrator to make sure you have the necessary user privileges for performing the CM tasks assigned to you. For more information, see Managing Content Security.

The main CMS Administration Console page opens in your browser, as described in the next section.

The main CMS Administration Console page

When you start the CMS Administration Console, the main page appears—as in this example:

pmcConsole

The CMS Administration Console has several views and modes that you control via interactive controls—as follows.

Interactive controls

The CMS Administration Console consists of the following interactive controls:

Toolbar
Content view tabs
Content tree view
Content list
Context-sensitive toolbar
Property Inspector

Toolbar—switch between modes

To switch between modes:

Mode	Icon	What authorized users can do
Content		Set up content infrastructure, and administer and secure content, search for documents By default, the CMS Administration Console opens in content mode, displaying your content by container in the content tree view and by document in the document list.
Templates		Define document types, display styles, and fields—and create content based on these specifications
Tasks		View, start, and stop automated tasks
Import		Import content infrastructure, documents, document types, display styles, and fields
Export		Export content infrastructure, documents, document types, display styles, and fields

Content view tabs—display views of content infrastructure

To display views of the content infrastructure:

View	Displays
Folder	Physical content infrastructure as a tree view of folders
Category	Logical content infrastructure as a tree view of taxonomies and categories
Check-Outs	Documents checked out, by either the current user or other users
Search	Search dialogs and documents found by the most recent search

For more information about folders and categories, see Subsystem infrastructure. For information about checking out documents, see Checking documents in and out. For information about finding documents with the Search facility, see Searching Content.

Content tree view

Displays:

The physical infrastructure in folder view
The logical infrastructure in category view.

Content list

Displays the list of documents in the selected folder, along with identifying information such as name, author, description, create date, expiration date, publish date, and checkout status.

Context-sensitive toolbar

Provides functions based on the current mode and view.

Property Inspector

Displays properties for selected documents, folders, taxonomies, and categories.

The Property Inspector is context-sensitive and permission-sensitive. It displays interactive controls and tabbed panes of information based on the object you select and the permissions associated with your user ID.

For example: if you do not have WRITE permission, you cannot edit documents and the Property Inspector will not display Check-In and Check-Out controls; if you do not have PROTECT permission, you cannot set security on content and the Property Inspector will not display a Security tab.