Problem Statement
A provider or reseller wants to create a new brand in Parallels Operations Automation (POA).
Resolution
To create a new brand in POA:
Add the domain for a brand.
- Log into the POA Provider or Reseller Control Panel.
- Go to Top > Operations Director > DNS Manager > Domains.
- Click the Add Existing Domain Registered Elsewhere button.
- Enter the name of the branding domain and choose Internal DNS Hosting Type. (By selecting the Internal DNS hosting type, the domain zone will be hosted on POA-managed name servers).
- Click the Next button.
- On the next screen, select the resource for DNS hosting and click the Next button.
- Click the Finish button.
The domain can also be added in the Hosting Control Panel of a provider/reseller on the All Domains tab. Steps to add a domain in the Hosting Control Panel are similar to the steps above.
Create the brand.
- In the POA Control Panel, go to Top > Marketing Director > Branding Manager > Brands.
- Click the Add New Brand button. Hint: If you see the warning: You have no domains available for brand creation and you are sure that you have a domain, re-login to the POA Control Panel, or just click the Refresh link in the top-right corner of the screen with th list of brands.
- Select the domain you want to use for the brand from the drop-down list on the next screen, and click the Next button.
- Select the hosting type for the brand - Website (Apache) or Website (Microsoft IIS).
- Select the subscription for the hosting resource.
- Click the Next button.
- On the next screen, choose the existing webspace or create a new one.
- Provide the location of the branding website within the webspace (usually the name of a domain is used as the website location).
- Click the Next button.
On the next screen, fill in the brand parameters:
- Brand name
- URL suffix (this field is optional, usually you leave it empty)
- Skin
- Upload skin for further customization
- Custom Logo (if any)
If POA is integrated with Parallels Business Automation - Enterprise (PBA-E), and the vendor has an online store in PBA-E, it is possible to enable the online store during brand creation:
- Check the Enable Store box in the *Online Store *section.
- Select the existing online store from the drop-down list.
- Enter the desired Store URL Suffix. E.g. if you use the domain vendor.com for branding purposes and the store URL suffix is store, then the PBA-E Online Store will be accessible at: https://vendor.com/store.
- Click the Finish button.
Completing the steps above will create the new brand as required.