Summary

In this chapter, we looked into administering containers. There are several tools, such as the Site Manager, the Web Author, and Visual Studio .NET, that you can use to perform administrative tasks. Table 16-1 compares the Site Manager with the Web Author and VS.NET, and provides a brief reference to show which tool can be used for which task.

Table 16-1. Comparison of Tools for Administrative Tasks

Object	Task	Tools
		Site Manager	Web Author	VS.NET
Channel
	Create a channel	Yes	No	No
	Rename a channel	Yes	Yes	No
	Edit channel display name and description	Yes	Yes	No
	Edit channel publishing schedule	Yes	Yes	No
	Set up publishing flags:
	Important channel, Hide when published	Yes	Yes	No
	Set up robots flags	Yes	No	No
	Edit channel rendering properties	Yes	No	No
	Set up default galleries	Yes	No	No
	Set up the sorting order for the channel items	Yes	No	No
	Assign rights to users	Yes	No	No
	Set up custom properties	Yes	No	No
	Move a channel	Yes	No	No
	Copy a channel	Yes	No	No
	Delete a channel	Yes	No	No
	Restore a channel	Yes	No	No
	Kill lock	Yes	No	No
Page
	Create a new page	No	Yes	No
	Edit a page	No	Yes	No
	Move a page	Yes	Yes	No
	Copy a page	Yes	Yes	No
	Delete a page	Yes	Yes	No
	Restore a page	Yes	No	No
	Edit page properties	No	Yes	No
	Kill lock	Yes	No	No
Template gallery
	Create a new template gallery	Yes	No	Yes
	Rename a template gallery	Yes	No	Yes
	Edit a description property	Yes	No	Yes
	Move a template gallery	Yes	No	Yes
	Copy a template gallery	Yes	No	Yes
	Delete a template gallery	Yes	No	Yes
	Restore a template gallery	Yes	No	No
	Assign rights to users	Yes	No	No
	Kill lock	Yes	No	No
Template
	Create a new template	No	No	Yes
	Rename a template	No	No	Yes
	Edit template properties	No	No	Yes
	Check in and check out a template	No	No	Yes
	Move a template	Yes	No	Yes
	Copy a template	Yes	No	Yes
	Delete a template	Yes	No	Yes
	Restore a template	Yes	No	No
	Run a dependent report	Yes	No	No
	Revert to approved	Yes	No	No
	Kill lock	Yes	No	No
Resource gallery
	Create a new resource gallery	Yes	No	No
	Rename a resource gallery	Yes	No	No
	Edit a description property	Yes	No	No
	Move a resource gallery	Yes	No	No
	Copy a resource gallery	Yes	No	No
	Delete a resource gallery	Yes	No	No
	Restore a resource gallery	Yes	No	No
	Assign rights to users	Yes	No	No
	Kill lock	Yes	No	No
Resource
	Add a resource to a resource gallery	Yes	Yes	No
	Replace a resource in a resource gallery	No	Yes	No
	Move a resource	Yes	No	No
	Copy a resource	Yes	No	No
	Delete a resource	Yes	Yes	No
	Restore a resource	Yes	No	No
	Kill lock	Yes	No	No

For tasks that can be performed using different tools, there may be subtle differences in implementation of functionality. These differences have been outlined in the chapter where appropriate.

NOTE: Table 16-1 shows the use of VS.NET for administrative tasks; we are not talking here about writing code to modify an object's properties programmatically.

In this chapter, we focused on managing containers such as channels, template galleries, and resource galleries. However, to provide a publishing environment for our site, we need to assign rights groups to these containers. We will concentrate on this task in the next chapter.