Creating Administration Interfaces

The portal provides the admin studio framework, which is a set of tools for modifying the administration environment of the portal.

Admin studio instances are pages that provide administration user interfaces.

Some out-of-the-box examples are the Portal Content Studio for creating and modifying objects in the Portal Catalog or Portal Permissions for setting permissions on portal objects and applications.

Each instance can be configured, for example, to filter the objects shown in the Portal Catalog or to create new menu options, or actions, in the popup menu when right-clicking an object in the Portal Catalog.

A work unit is a user interface element through which the user works with a portal object, such as an editor or a view.

A wizard is a user interface element that contains a sequence of dialog boxes, which lead the user through a series of steps to perform specific tasks.

Wizards and work units run within admin studio instances.

You can create custom wizards for enabling users to following a step-by-step process for performing a portal task, for example, creating a portal object.

The following section describes what you can do with the admin studio framework:

• Creating Admin Studio Instances

  Describes how to create your own admin studio instances or customize existing instances with XML script

• Creating Work Units and Wizards with Web Dynpro

  Describes how to create and configure custom work units and wizards using Web Dynpro tools and APIs

• Creating Wizards and Editors with PRT API

  Describes how to create custom wizards, PCM wizards and editor with Portal Runtime (PRT) APIs

The tasks for working with the admin studio framework rely heavily on the use of the XML Content and Actions tool, which enables you to create, modify and delete portal objects by uploading an XML script. For more information, see XML Content and Actions .