Setting up Target Types

A Target Type specifies a user-friendly name for one or more Publication Targets and specifies permission settings for the target(s).

About this task

When Content Manager users publish content, they select one or more Target Types to publish to. The publish action then publishes content to those Publication Targets that the user has permission to publish to.

For example, your organization may have two different Target Types:

  • A Target Type called Staging to which authors can publish content.
  • A Target Type called Live to which only editors can publish content.

In this example, the Target Types represent types of Publication Targets. The Staging Target Type might publish to a local file system while the Live Target Type may publish to an HTTP server that external Web site visitors can access.

Procedure

  1. Access the Content Manager Explorer Web site as an administrator user and select Administration at bottom left. In the Administration tree that appears on the left, navigate to Publication Management > Target Types.
  2. In the Administration tab of the Ribbon toolbar, click Target Types and select New Target Type from the dropdown menu.
  3. Fill in a Name and a Description for this Target Type.
  4. Select the Security tab.
  5. Select Show all to see a list of all configured Content Manager Users and User Groups (if you have not configured any users, the list contains only the Content Manager Administrator user). To allow a User or User Group to use a Target Type, select that User or User Group and select Use Target Type.
  6. Click Save and Close to create the Target Type. The New Target Type window closes, and the new Target Type appears in the list in the main content area.

Results

You have now create a Target Type that you can associate with one or more Publication Targets.