The Site Builder's Template Plan is the set of limits, web site components (photo gallery, forum, database, and etc.), number of hosts and set of templates applied to a web site created in SiteBuilder. After applying a Template Plan to a web site the set of limits and components contained in this Plan are copied to the web site Plan. Such web site Plan is called Inherited Plan, i.e. it inherits the limits and the set of web site components from the Template Plan. Limits and components of Inherited Plan can be changed according to web site owner requirements without affecting its Template Plan. Further in this subsection the information regarding how changes in the Template Plan affect its Inherited Plan is provided. The list of Template Plans and their contents can be viewed and accessed on the Plan Management screen. Settings of Inherited Plan can be viewed and edited only on the Site Management screen during editing of web site parameters.
Template Plan can be either activated or deactivated. Activated Plan can be applied to any type of web sites. Deactivated Plan can not be applied to any type of the web sites. The change of Plan Status from Activated to Deactivated doesn't affect the work of the sites to which this Plan was previously applied since its settings are copied to the Inherited Plans of these sites.
After SiteBuilder installation the program automatically generates the Plan containing basic set of limits and the web site modules. This Plan is called BasePlan and consists of the following limits: maximum number of web pages (by default it is set to 10) and basic set of web site components.
BasePlan is generated to be a safeguard against the situations when the trial site Template Plan gets corrupt for some reasons and in that case this corrupted Plan is replaced by BasePlan. BasePlan cannot be removed or deactivated in SiteBuilder.
There are two types of web sites in SiteBuilder: trial web sites and regular web sites. Trial web site is the site created by the user who is using SiteBuilder for the first time. The trial sites can not be published immediately upon their creation. First they should be made into regular web sites. The life-time of a trial web site is 30 days. If the trial site is not becoming the regular web site during this time period it gets terminated. By default one of the Plans in SiteBuilder is set as Trial Plan. Trial site is created automatically in SiteBuilder when user access SiteBuilder. If administrator manually deactivated Trial Plan and there are no other Plans for trial sites in SiteBuilder then automatic creation of new trial sites is denied. Administrator is able to switch deactivated Trial Plan to activated mode manually, or he/she can create new Trial Plan to be applied to trial sites. Even when the automatic creation of new trial sites is denied and when all Trial Plans are deactivated user can still access the trial site created before Trial Plans were deactivated.
Prior to creating a trial web site make sure that SiteBuilder contains Template Plan otherwise the option of automatic creation of trial web sites will be unavailable. Trial Plan cannot be automatically deactivated or removed. The Plan Management screen displays whether or not Template Plan can be applied to trial sites, in the For trial sites column (Yes - the Plan can be applied to trial sites, No - it can not be applied to trial sites). To disable automatic creation of trial sites in SiteBuilder click on Yes in the For trial sites column.
Regular web sites are fully functional web sites that can be published after their creation.
Web site Plan consists of two parts: Base part and User's Part. Both parts contain the set of limitations, web site components, and web page templates.
The settings of the Base part of the web site Plan can be changed by SiteBuilder administrator only. Web site owner is able to change settings just in the User's part of the web site Plan. The Base part contains settings and web site components of the Template Plan applied to this site.
User's part of the web site Plan consists of additional web site components web site owner adds him/herself and the maximum number of web pages set by the owner.
Limitation on the number of web site pages.
The maximum number of web pages set for web site calculated as following: when in the Template Plan applied to the web site the maximum number of pages was set as 10 pages, this number is copied in the Base part of the web site Plan. And if the web site owner set the maximum number of web pages as 15, then the total number of allowed web site pages is 25. If afterwards the web site owner replaced his or her Template Plan with the Template Plan containing the maximum number of web pages as 20. Then the maximum number of pages set in User's part of the web site Plan remains the same (15 pages), but the maximum number of web pages contained in Base Part is replaced by 20. Then the total number of minimum web pages on this web site would be no less than 35 pages.
Additional web site components.
Additional web site components contained in User's part of the Plan can be added or removed just during the editing of this part of the Plan. If the Template Plan is replaced by another Plan they remain the same.
In order to manage SiteBuilder's Plan administrator accesses the Plan Management screen by clicking Plan Management in SiteBuilder administrator interface. On this screen he or she is able to do the following: see the list of all plans currently stored in his or her SiteBuilder, add new Plan, activate/deactivate a Plan, delete a Plan and find particular Template Plan by its name.
The Template Plan status is indicated in the Status column (A - activated, D - deactivated). To activate Template Plan select a check box beside the Template you require to activate and click Activate. For trial sites column shows whether particular Template Plan can be applied to the trial sites and what Plans can not be applied to them (Yes - Template Plan can be applied to trial web site, No - Template Plan can not be applied to them). To select all the Plans listed on the Plan Management screen select check box beside N this way all the Plans will be selected for activation/deactivation/deletion. To delete the Plan select check box beside the deactivated Plan and click Delete.
To find a Plan in SiteBuilder enter its name in the Search by plan name line and click Search. If the Plan exists in SiteBuilder it will be displayed on the Plan Management screen. To see the list of all SiteBuilder's Plans click Show All Plans.
To add new Plan click Add Plan. Enter the name of the new Plan in the Name line. If it is required for the new Plan to be active upon its creation select the Active check box. You can enter brief description of the new Plan in the Description line. Set the maximum number of web pages in the Pages Number line. Click Apply.
Note: The Name line and the Pages Number line are required for filling in. Otherwise the Plan will not be created.
To add the hostnames where the web site is allowed to be published go to the Hosts tab by clicking Hosts. The Hosts tab displays all hosts available to publish web sites in SiteBuilder. Select the check box(s) beside hostname(s) and click Add to plan. Click Apply. Administrator is able remove hosts from the already created Plan. Click on existing Plan in Plan Management screen and go to the Hosts tab. To remove the host from the Plan select the appropriate check box and click the Remove from plan button. Click Apply.
To select web site components to be added to the Plan go to the Modules tab. The Modules tab displays the list of available web site components. Select check box(s) beside the web components required to be added in the Plan and click Add to plan. Click Apply. You can also remove modules from the already created Plan. Click on existing Plan in Plan Management screen and go to Modules tab. To remove the module select it by check marking the check box beside it and click Remove from plan. Click Apply.
Note: If there are more modules than can fit on one screen, the next part of the list is placed on the next page(s) and administrator is able to see them by clicking on page number located in the bottom right corner of the Modules screen.
To select templates of web site pages go to the Templates tab. The list of available templates is displayed in the Templates tab. Select the check box(s) beside required template. Click Add to plan. Click Apply. Administrator is able remove modules from the already created Plan. Click on existing Plan in Plan Management screen and go to Modules tab. To remove the template from the Plan select the appropriate check box and click the Remove from plan button. Click Apply.
If the changes were made in the Template Plan administrator is ably to apply all these changes to all Inherited Plans of this Template Plan. After the changes were made in the template Plan select check box beside the Apply changes to all inherited plans option. Click Apply. After applying changes to all Inherited Plans, the Base parts of this web site Inherited Plans will contain the new parameters of this Template Plan.
To see statistics of Plan changes click the Statistics of Plan changes tab.
This screen provides statistics information about all changes in the Template Plans applied to SiteBuilder web sites. It shows how many times the particular Template Plan was modified. Digit before decimal point is the number of times the Template Plan was modified, and digits after decimal point represent number of times its inherited Plan was modified. X sign after decimal point means that this Template Plan was inherited, when it is was inherited for the first time zero is displayed after decimal point. For example: revision 1.x - means that the Template Plan was modified only once (1) but it was not inherited (x).