Creating PCM Wizards

This section describes how to use the wizard toolkit to create a PCM wizard for administrators.

The wizard toolkit enables you to create administration wizards for creating new portal objects, which are stored in the PCD. The wizard toolkit is built on top of the wizard framework, and adds the following functionality:

Automatically synchronizes wizard input fields with the properties of the portal object to be created.
Adds a set of standard panes that are required for creating all types of portal objects.

This section describes the following:

Architecture: Provides background information on the wizard toolkit.
How to Create a PCM Wizard: Describes how to use the wizard toolkit API to build a PCM wizard.
Essential Information: Describes the portalapp.xml configuration and the JAR files for working with the wizard toolkit.

Prerequisites

Familiarity with the wizard framework and how to create standard wizards. For more information, see Creating a Wizard.