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The portal admin studio enables you to modify the administration environment of the portal.

You can create admin studio instances, which are pages that provide an administration environment with a specific configuration. An instance is a portal page with a set of admin studio iViews. Administrators run wizards and work units (editors) within admin studio instances.

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

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. And you can create work units (editors) for enabling users to modify or work with a selected portal object.

Admin Studio Instance

The following shows the parts of an admin studio instance using the default Portal Content admin studio instance, which is part of the Content Administration role:

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Each part of an admin studio instance is rendered by a different iView:

      Message Area: Displays admin studio messages.

      Search: Enables searching of objects in the Portal Catalog.

      Browse: Displays the Portal Catalog as a tree.

      Quick Info: Displays information about the currently selected object in the Portal Catalog.

      Work Container: The container that displays wizards and work units.

For more information about creating and configuring an admin studio instance, see Creating Admin Studio Instances.

Wizard / Work Unit Layout

The following shows the parts of a wizard / work unit user interface:

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      Admin Studio Toolbar (work unit only): Provides buttons for working with a work unit opened for a specific portal object.

       Save: Executes the doSave() method.

       Preview: Runs the portal object (for iViews and pages only) .

       Refresh: Executes the doRefresh() method.

       Edit Mode: Checks to see if the portal object is available for editing, that is, if it is not locked. If it is available, the work unit is reopened in edit mode.

Enabled only when an object is locked.

       Close: Closes the wizard (if doClose() returns true).

      Tabs: Displays a tab for each wizard / work unit that was launched.

      Editor Link Bar (work unit only): Provides links to open other editors for the current portal object.

      Title: Title of the wizard / work unit

      Road Map (wizard only): Indicates the steps in a wizard.

      Current Pane: Displays the work unit or the current pane of the wizard

      Wizard Toolbar (wizard only): Provides buttons for navigating in a wizard.

       Cancel: Closes the wizard.

       Back: Navigates to the previous pane.

       Next: Navigates to the next pane.

       Finish: Ends the wizard and displays the Finish pane, if the wizard includes one.

For more information about work units and wizards, see Creating Work Units and Creating Wizards.

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