A special personalization rule is used to make a published
page visible to a specific set of users, who will review the page
before it is promoted. You can customize this rule to control which
users can review the page.
When you publish a page using the Site Management publish
feature, or the JACL publish script, the page is copied from one portal
system to another, or from one virtual portal to another. When the
page is published but not yet promoted, it is not visible to all users
and is hidden by a special personalization visibility rule named
publishRule.
By default, the publishRule visibility rule allows members of the
wpsadmins group to see and review published pages that have not been
promoted. This rule can be modified using the Personalization Rule
Editor.
The user must have access permission to both the personalization
rule and the page; otherwise the user will not see the page.
Modify the rule to specify which criteria must be met
for a user to be able to see a page that has just been published.
For example, you can specify a different group of users, instead of
wpsadmins, to be the group who can see and review the published page.
Once the reviewers have reviewed the page, use the Site Management
promote feature, or the JACL promote script, to move the page from
the published (review) state to the promoted (live) state, where all
users can view the page.
When a page is promoted, if a previous version of the page
already exists, the older version is no longer visible to any portal
user. Any personalization settings that were applied to the old page
or portlet are retained and used by the new version of the page. Also,
any URL references to the old page now point to the new page.