Multi-site management

Show sites

In the Administration tab, click on the Sites button:

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In Ametyssites are organized in a hierarchical structure. This means that a site can have child sites.
Thus, the site management screen displays the list of CMS sites in the form of a tree:

When you log in for the first time, this screen may be blank because no site has yet been created.

One of the main benefits of hierarchical site management is the sharing of content between sites.

Modify site organization

You can drag & drop sites in the tree to change their organization:

Example of drag & drop on a site
We're going to drag & drop a site called Event Site so that it becomes a child site of the Blog site :

Site features

Create a new site

The process of creating (or duplicating) a new site is documented on the following page: Create a new site

Open in CMS

To open a site at CMS, select it and click on the Open button at CMS :

Configure

To modify a site's configuration, select it and click on the Configure button:

For details of how to set up a site, see Create a new site.

Delete a site

To delete a site, select it and click on the Delete button:

Deleting a site deletes the entire selected site and all its sub-sites (including pages and content). You will be asked to confirm deletion:

Choosing site populations

To select the populations authorized to connect to a site, select it and then click on the Populations button:

A dialog box allows you to select these populations:

Contributor/visitor populations are allowed to connect to the "cms" back office and the "site" front office, while additional visitor populations can only connect to the "site" front office. Care must be taken not to select as an additional population a population already selected as a contributor population.

Select group directories

 To select the group directories available for a site, select the site and then click on the Group directories button:

A dialog box allows you to select these directories:

Contributor/visitor groups are available in the "cms" back office and "site" front office, while additional visitor groups are only available in the "site" front office. Care must be taken not to select as an additional group a group already selected as a contributor group.

Assign a manager

To assign a manager to a site, select the site and click on the Assign a manager button:

A dialog box allows you to select the user who will manage the site. You can also assign this user to an existing profile or to a new super-profile:

The selected user can then log in and take advantage of his or her manager rights.

Actions

Start indexing

You can start a total indexing operation by clicking on the Start total indexing button :

You can also start indexing a site. To do so, select it and click on the Start site indexing button:

Rebuilding live

To rebuild a site's live woskspace, select it and click on the Rebuild site live button:

This action rebuilds the site's live workspace, re-indexing all content and resetting the front-office cache.

The live workspace is the workspace representing the online version of the site. If you happen to notice differences between the preview version and the online version of the same page, even though there have been no recent modifications to it, it's most likely that the live workspace is out of date. Rebuilding the site's live workspace may solve the problem.

The action of rebuilding the site's live workspace means that the site will be temporarily unavailable to contributors and visitors for the duration of the process.

It is also possible to rebuild the entire live workspace. In this case, the action takes place at application level, and all CMS sites are affected by the rebuild. To do this, click on the Rebuild complete live button:

The action of rebuilding the complete live workspace means that all sites will be temporarily unavailable to contributors and visitors for the duration of the process.

Empty cache

To clear a site's cache, select it and click on the Clear Site Cache button:

This action clears the server cache of the selected site.

To clear the server cache for all sites and the application, click on the Clear complete cache button:

Statistics

Global statistics

To display global statistics, click on the Global statistics button :

A screen appears displaying a number of data concerning all the sites and the application (number of contents, pages, resources, services, etc.), as shown in the illustration below:

Site statistics

To view statistics for a site, select it and click on the Site statistics button:

The view is similar to that of Global Statistics, but the results are calculated for the selected site only:

Cache statistics

These statistics cover both back-office (dynamic cache) and front-office (static cache) cache usage. See the Cache usage statistics page for more information.