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Chapter 5. Custom Errata Management
5.1.2. Unpublished Errata
The
Unpublished Errata
page appears when you click
Unpublished
below
Manage Er-
rata
in the left navigation bar. It displays the errata alerts your organization has created but
not yet distributed..
To edit an existing unpublished errata, follow the steps described in
Section 5.3
Creating and Editing Errata
. To publish the errata, click
Publish Errata
on
the top-right corner of the
Errata Details
page. You then need to confirm the channels
associated with the errata and click the
Publish Errata
button, now in the lower-right
corner. The errata alert is shifted to the
Published
page awaiting distribution.
5.2. Managed Errata Details
If you click on the advisory of a managed errata alert in the
Published
or
Unpublished
pages, its
Managed Errata Details
page appears. This page is further divided into three
tabs:
Details
,
Channels
, and
Packages
.
•
Details
— Provides the primary information you entered about the custom errata alert
during its creation. This includes a synopsis, advisory name and type, related product,
bugs, description, solution, keywords, references, and notes. To change any of this in-
formation, make your modifications in the appropriate fields and click
Update Errata
.
•
Channels
— Shows the channels associated with the selected errata. To change these as-
sociations, select or deselect the appropriate checkboxes and click the
Update Channels
button.
•
Packages
— Enables you to manage the packages associated with the selected er-
rata. This tab contains two subtabs that allow you to view, add, and remove packages:
List/Remove
and
Add
.
•
List/Remove
— Displays all of the packages currently associated with the custom
errata and provides a means to cancel that association. To remove packages from the
errata, select their checkboxes and click
Remove Packages
on the bottom right-hand
corner of the page. A confirmation page appears listing the packages to be removed.
Click
Confirm
to complete the action.
•
Add
— Enables the addition of packages to the errata. To see available packages,
select an option from the
View
dropdown menu and click
View
. To add packages to
the errata you are editing, select the appropriate checkboxes and click
Add Packages
.
Refer to Section 5.4
Assigning Packages to Errata
for a comprehensive discussion of
this process.