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Edit an area

You can change the setting for a specific area of the portal site. An area page is any area of the portal site other than the home page.

1. In the Actions list on the area page, click Change Settings.
2. On the Change Settings: Area Name page, do one or more of the following:

   Click the General tab and change settings as necessary.

   1. In the Title and Description section, type descriptive information for this area.
      • In the Title box, type a title for the area.
      • In the Description box, type a description of the area.
   2. In the Contact section, type information for a contact person for this area.
      • Click Select Contact to search for a person to add as a contact for this area, or click Enter Contact to type the information for a person to add as a contact.
      • You can also type the address of a photo or image of the contact person.
   3. In the Location section, click Change location to display this area in a different place in the portal site.

      How?

      1. On the Change Location page, select an area in which to display this area.
      2. Click OK.

      Note  You can see the current location of the area under Default location.

   Click the Publishing tab and change settings as necessary.

   1. In the Publishing Dates section, you can specify start and end dates to display this area.
      • To specify a start date for this area, type the date you want this area to appear in the portal site in the Start date box. The default date is today's date.
      • To specify an end date for this area, type the date you no longer want this area to appear in the portal site in the Expiration date box.

        Note  You can leave this blank to display the area indefinitely.

   2. In the Listing Approval section, specify whether listings require approval before they are added to the portal site.
      • Under Require approval to publish new listings, click Yes to specify that new listings must be approved by a content manager before they are added to the portal site.
      • Under Automatically approve all listings added by area managers, click Yes to bypass the approval requirement when a content manager adds a listing for this area.

   Click the Page tab and change settings as necessary.

   1. In the Subarea Templates section, select the page template to apply to subareas for this area. If you click Subareas can use any template, users who create subareas can select the area page template. If you want all subareas to look the same, click All subareas will use the following template and choose a page template.
   2. In the Area Templates section, select the page template to use for this area.

   Click the Display tab and change settings as necessary.

   1. In the Navigation and Sort Order section, specify whether to hide this area and how you want listings in this area to be sorted.
      • Click Exclude from portal site navigation if you do not want users to see this area in portal site navigation.
      • Specify whether to sort subareas alphabetically or manually.

        Note  If you specify a manual sort order, subareas appear in the same order they appear in the portal site map. To change the order, in the portal site map, drag the subareas into the order you want.

   2. In the Image section, type the address for a graphics file you want to display with this area. You can also type an address for an icon image to use for links to this area.

   Click the Search tab and change settings as necessary.

   1. In the Search Results section, specify whether to include this area in search results.

      Note  If you click No, the listing still appears in the areas you selected.

   2. In the Topic Assistant section, specify whether you want the Topic Assistant to suggest content for this area when automatically categorizing content.

3. Click OK.

Related Topics

Create or delete an area

Manage security settings for an area

About grouping and ordering content in an area

About managing content in portal areas

About areas