
Building Websites with OpenCms

The administration view contains the tools you will need to administer the OpenCms server. In this section, we will walk through each of the tools included in this view.In the administration view, menus are laid out with icons (like Windows 3.1). Clicking on an icon may load either an administration screen or another set of icons. To navigate back from a child menu to its parent, use the blue arrow (
) in the navigation bar above the menu.
The first icon (
) on the administration menu is for project management. By default, OpenCms includes two projects: the Offline project, which contains the current version of all of the files in the repository, and the Online project, which contains everything that has been published. However, it is possible to create new projects confined to a specific subset of the files in the Offline project. Click on the project management icon. Create a new project by clicking on the New Project icon. You will be prompted to define...
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