Creating a basic Business Process Type for publishing

Create a basic Business Process Type to define where to publish the resources of a Web site contained in your Publication. Creating a Business Process Type also involves creating one or more Target Types.

Before you begin

Creating a Business Process Type requires Business Process Type Management rights (or administrator-level rights).

About this task

This task explains how to set up a basic Business Process Type, to make publishing possible before you have implemented all your business logic. Because of this, the Business Process Type you create now makes a number of simplifications:
  • The Business Process Type allows publishing by anybody to any Target Type. Once you have set up Users and Groups, update this Business Process Type to allow publishing to a specific Target Type only if the publish is performed byt a certain user profile.
  • The Business Process Type allows publishing of any content to any Target Type. Once you have set up workflow, and specifically Approval Statuses, update this Business Process Type to allow publishing to a specific Target Type only if a certain Approval Status has been reached.
  • The Business Process Type does not include any association with Bundle Schemas. Once you have set up Bundle Schemas and Bundles, update this Business Process Type to associate it with a specific set of Bundle Schemas.

Procedure

  1. Access the Content Manager Explorer website.
  2. If you see the Home screen, select Content Explorer.
  3. In the tree on the left, expand the Publication in which you want to create a Business Process Type and select the Business Process Types subnode.
  4. In the Create tab, select New Business Process Type.
    A dialog for the new Business Process Type opens.
  5. In the General tab, specify a Title and a Description for your Business Process Type.
  6. In the Target Types tab, select a Topology Type. The Topology Type defines one or more Purposes, such as Staging or Live. For each Purpose, configure an associated Target Type.
    A list of Purposes appears, with an empty Target Type next to each one.
  7. Select the first row in the list on the left.
    On the right, a General subtab and a Security subtab for the Target Type appear.
  8. In the General subtab, define the general properties of the Target Type as follows:
    1. Change the value of the Name field, which defaults to a generated name for the Target Type, to something more descriptive.
    2. Describe the Target Type in the Description field.
  9. On the left, select the next row and define the next associated Target Type in the same way. Continue until you have defined a Target Type for each Purpose.
  10. Select Save and Close.
    The dialog closes and the new Business Process Type appears as a subnode of Business Process Types in the tree. Selecting the new Business Process Type displays its associated Bundle Schemas in the content area.