Explaining Authoring tool and its uses in IBM WCM8.0

Authoring tool :-  Authoring tool provides you authoring functions like editing contents in web content viewer portlet.

Step1 :- Create a AT by adding component reference in manage elements.

Create a site area to hold the content

Step2 :- Create a Authoring Tool as given below.

Fill the details then select the Authoring Template, Sitearea

Everywhere put a place holder tag for href and name

In header design put a div structure and separate remaining by span and br tags

Step 3 :- Now create the content with previously created AT and then map above Authoring Tool component to it.

Step 4 :- Now create a PT and include the AT as element tags in it

Step 5 :- Now map the AT and PT in site area 

Step 6 :- Now create page add web content viewer portlet and map site-area to it.

                          Click on new it will take you to new content. 

Click on read then you can read the content

Note :- You can even make the tab to open as a separate browser tag. To do that you need to change the tag to  ( <a href=" [Placeholder tag="href" format="url"]" target="_blank">

 [Placeholder tag="name"]</a> )