What is the point of the website publishing tool?
This allows you to publish websites easily and quickly. By managing your web pages through Business Collaborator, it makes your website easy to maintain – using version control of the pages, checking who last updated the pages and when and ensuring that only authorised personnel can actually publish pages. Published pages are accessible to anyone on the Internet, not just Business Collaborator users and, because the system does not have to check users’ access rights before displaying a page, pages display faster than when accessed from inside a Business Collaborator workspace. • Is my website empty before I publish anything? No, a default.htm file is automatically created (and published) as the default page for your website when you create a new website. This page can then be replaced or removed when you have prepared your website’s contents. • What happens when you click on “publish”? When you click on “publish”, the objects which you have selected – possibly the entire structure of w