A SiteBuilder Site Plan is the set of limits applied to a site created in SiteBuilder.
There are two types of Plans in SiteBuilder:
Base Plan is the default Plan automatically assigned to trial sites when they are created. Base Plan cannot be removed or deactivated.
Template Plan is the Plan created by Administrator or Reseller and applied to Users' sites. A Template Plan can be activated, deactivated, or deleted. An activated Template Plan can be applied to any type of sites. Deactivated Plan can be applied only to regular sites. Changing Template Plan status from Activated to Deactivated does not affect the work of the sites to which this plan was previously applied because its settings are copied to the inherited Plans of these sites.
By default, one of the plans in SiteBuilder is set as Trial Plan. If you manually deactivate Trial Plan and there are no other Plans for trial sites in SiteBuilder, then automatic creation of new trial sites is denied. You are able to switch deactivated Trial Plan to activated mode manually, or create new Trial Plan to be applied to trial sites. Even when 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 site, make sure that SiteBuilder contains Template Plan. Otherwise, the option of automatic creation of trial 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 Yes in the For trial sites column.
After applying a Template Plan to a site, the set of limits and components contained in this Plan are copied to the site Plan. Such site Plan is called inherited Plan, that is it inherits the limits and the set of site components from the Template Plan. Limits and components of an inherited Plan can be changed according to site owner requirements without affecting its Template Plan.
The list of Template Plans and their contents can be viewed and accessed on the Plan Management screen. Settings of inherited Plans can be viewed and edited only on the Site Management screen during editing site parameters.
A site Plan consists of two parts: Base part and User's part. Both parts contain the set of limitations.
Base part contains the settings and site components of the Template Plan applied to this site. The settings of the Base part can be changed by SiteBuilder Administrator only. A site owner is able to change the settings just in the User's part of the site Plan.
User's part consists of additional site components that site owners add themselves and the maximum number of web pages set by the owner.
The limits that every site Plan includes are the following:
In the Base Plan the maximum number of pages is 10. If in a Template Plan applied to a site the maximum number of pages was set as 10 pages, this number is copied in the Base part of the site Plan. And if site owners set the maximum number of web pages as 15, then the total number of allowed site pages will be 25. If afterwards site owners replace their Template Plan with the Template Plan containing the maximum number of web pages as 20, the maximum number of pages set in the User's part of the site Plan remains the same (15 pages), but the maximum number of web pages contained in the Base Part is replaced by 20. Then the total number of minimum web pages on this site would be no less than 35 pages.
Additional site components contained in the User's part of a 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.
To manage Plans
On this screen you can view the following information about Plans:
If there are more than 6 Plans in the list, the option Plans per page 10, 15, 25, All will be displayed at the bottom of the Plan Management screen. You can select 10, 15, 25 or all Plans to be displayed per page by clicking either of these numbers.
To perform a group operation, choose multiple Plans by selecting several check boxes (you can choose all Plans at once by selecting the check box at the top of the column) and click Activate, Deactivate, or Delete.
To add a Plan
To edit an existing Plan, click its name in the Name column on the Plan Management main screen. When editing an existing Plan, two additional options appear: