A generation set is an object that contains the name, code name, and location for an entire site or other set of generated pages.

A generation object allows users to organize data within a generation set. For example, the "Mega Times" generation set could include three generation objects named "Master page", "Variable content", and "TME data".

You must configure a generation set and at least one generation object for distinct page type that you wish to generate in WCM (for example, home page, section page, article page, poll page, collection page).

General

The Execute button is used to generate Web content. Do not use this function until you have configured the required generation sets, generation objects and generation content.

• Name

  Enter the name of the site or any other set of Web pages or files to be generated.

• Code

  Enter the string (no spaces) that will be used to identify the site (or other generation set) in the code.

• Location

  Enter the absolute path to the directory in your file server.

  The path {$config.wcm.webSite.path}site{$context.site}/ variables tell WCM to use the website path defined in the configuration.xml file, and to replace {$context.site) with the number of the current site (for example, site6).

  The configuration.xml file is located in: [root]/xml/configuration.xml. Other configuration.xml files should not be consulted or modified unless absolutely required by a system administrator.

• Context

  Enter the site ID, using the syntax site=[siteid].

  To know the ID of your site, select Manage>Site sections, select a section, click Referencing and check the site number in the path under Default (Friendly URL).

  You could also configure a generation for generating all sites at once by defining a loop command in the Context field.

  To check the site ID for a site, select Advanced Searches>Editorial and open the Web Site list. The ID for each site is displayed along with the respective site names.

Select Save or Check-in (according to your selected lock mode) to save your generation set.

 

To configure the generation object Click the New Generation button.