Setting up publishing for Experience Manager
To enable publishing content to a staging site for your users, show and fill in the Session Preview tab in a Publication Target.
Procedure
- Access Content Manager Explorer.
- If you have not already done so, create a Publication Target that publishes to your staging Web site.
- In the General tab of your Publication Target, select Enable for inline editing.
A new Session Preview tab appears.
- On the new Session Preview tab, set Content Delivery Endpoint URL to the URL of the Experience Manager Web service end point. This URL is one of the following:
- For a JSP Web site, add the string <baseURL>/cd_preview_webservice/odata.svc/. If you have a
servlet-mappingdefined in your web.xml, then insert the path of the servlet mapping after cd_preview_webservice/. For example, if your servlet mapping maps the Web service to a subdirectoryws/, add the string <baseURL>/cd_preview_webservice/ws/odata.svc/. - For a .NET Web site, add the string <baseURL>/odata.svc/.
where <baseURL> is the base URL (host name and port) of the machine on which you set up your Content Delivery session preview Web service, for example, http://localhost:8080/.
- For a JSP Web site, add the string <baseURL>/cd_preview_webservice/odata.svc/. If you have a
- If you made your Experience Manager Web service secure, also set the following properties:
- OData Access Token URL
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The URL for obtaining an access token from the Experience Manager Web service. This value is one of the following:
- For a JSP Web site, the URL is <baseURL>/cd_preview_webservice/access_token/
- For a .NET Web site, the URL is <baseURL>/access_token.svc/
where <baseURL> is the same base URL you used before.
- User Name
- The name of a user authorized to access the Web service. You configured this user name in the Web service configuration file, cd_webservice_conf.xml, when you secured the Web service.
- Password
- The password that this user uses to authenticate against the Web service. You configured this password in the Web service configuration file, cd_webservice_conf.xml, when you secured the Web service.
- Use the Add button under Web site URLs to create a list of one or more URLs that represent the staging Web site, such as http://localhost:82 or http://myserver.mydomain:83/.