Overview  
   
   
  The zDE site Manager
 
The zDE Site Manager is your main interface to manage the structure and elements of your generated site. It helps you access most of the files related to the site on the server. The Site Manager provides a powerful means for navigating between directories and subdirectories. It also provides the tree structure that lets you browse through, add to and delete from the entire hierarchy of the site created.
File Operations
Cut Files: You can check a series of elements in your directory – files and directories – for future pasting into another location in the same site. You can then click on the Cut button to cut them from the current location.
Copy Files: You can select files that you want to copy to another location and click on this button.
Paste Files: After a Cut or Copy operation, you can paste the elements you cut or copied into another location in the directory structure by clicking on the Paste button.
Delete files: If you want to delete files or directories, select them and click on the delete button. The Site Manager will immediately delete them from the server. This action is not reversible!
Create Directory: If you want to create a new directory, click on this button. A prompt asks for the name you want to give to the directory. Provide this and click Save. A new directory with the name you furnished is then created.
Upload a file: If you need to upload a file on your PC into any particular directory on the server, click on this button. The Site Manager prompts for the path of the file to upload and then copies that on to the server.
Download a Zip file: If you want to download files from the server to your PC, select the files and then click on the Download button. The Site Manager zips the files into an archive and downloads them to your machine.
Site Structure
A newly created site typically contains the following directories and files.
Config: This directory contains site-level configuration files, like the ones below.
config.txt is a text file containing configuration information about the site, like the name of the site’s database host, the database user name and password, the path for site root and the UDM files directory, etc.
dispatch.xml stores the files with corresponding information on the login and the logout.
session.xml holds the list of session variables used in your site.
siteprefs.xml records the preferences that you chose when you generated this site.
dataportDescriptors: This directory carries the descriptors for any custom data ports that may have been written for this site.
lib: It contains library files others than those that are used specifically for this site.
logs: This holds files that log access, errors and events in your site.
mailAgents: The definitions of outbound email agents that run for your site are stored here.
mailTemplates: This holds page templates for specific mail agents.
metaTemplates: All the meta-templates of the site are located here. You can store separate families of meta-templates in subdirectories. The subdirectory standard holds the meta-templates that come with the zDE. The subdirectory sample and current.
Filters: All the filters for this site are located here.
sql: This directory contains the database schema of your site. When you regenerate the Java objects for the site, this schema is automatically updated.
udmFiles: All custom and auto UDM files are located here, including the banner, homepage and register UDMs. You can create subdirectories as needed here.
webFiles: Contains all the images, JavaScript, style-sheets and templates that run in your site. Custom auto templates are in their own subdirectories. Note that the subdirectory structure for the templates and the UDMs must be identical, in that a UDM in …/custom/wherever will use an identically-named HTML template in the sub-directory ../custom/wherever.