The WebCenter Interaction Portal is a powerful tool, but with that power comes complexity. Even relatively simple tasks like creating a community require a large number of steps, such as:

1. pick a community template,
2. create pages,
3. create Publisher portlets and
4. add them to the pages,
5. create Collab Projects,
6. set security,
7. etc.

And many times, most of this information is the same for every new community.

Integryst's Automater tackles this problem by allowing administrators to script multiple portal actions, only prompting for the unique information each time.

All kinds of actions can be scripted - and secured so that only certain groups have access to specific actions:

Automater works off of XML files that define each "Action", any number of "steps" within that action, and who has permission to perform that action. The "Create Network" action above, for example, has 44 distinct steps that do everything from creating Collab Projects to Publisher Content Items to Users, then setting security for each appropriately based on the user list provided.