Management Portal

The Management Portal layer of Sitefinity SaaS is based on Microsoft Azure DevOps. It provides a user interface to allow working with the project’s management tools.

The Sitefinity SaaS Management Portal includes: 

• Source Control / Repos
  Using the Management Portal, Sitefinity SaaS users can directly access their project repository. The repository contains the source code for the decoupled Renderer application. 
  The code repository supports the full functionality available in Azure DevOps Repos, including a variety of features such as git repository, code reviews, pull requests, and so on.
  
• Pipelines
  Sitefinity SaaS provides preconfigured pipelines enabling customers to manage their website development cycle according to best practices. You can view the pipeline execution steps and logs by clicking on the pipeline name in your Sitefinity SaaS project's Pipelines section.
  The functionality is delivered on top of Azure DevOps Pipelines.
  • For ASP.NET Core Renderer: Application pipeline DotNetCoreRenderer.CI.CD 
    For Next.js Renderer: Application pipeline NextJsRenderer.CI.CD  
    Automated Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) processes, which ensure the successful pushing of code changes to the corresponding environment. The pipeline releases can be easily traced. The CD also provides interface for manual approval of deployment to the Production environment. Moreover, in cases where the system fails to start after a package has been deployed, an automatic rollback is triggered to restore the system to the previously running state.
    For more information, see Deploy code changes.
    
• User management
  In the User Management section of Sitefinity SaaS Management Portal, customers are able to invite users to the project. Additionally, project administrators can configure roles and permissions for users to control what information that is accessible and manageable by them.
  For more information, see User management.
• Domain management
  The Domains management section of the Management Portal enables you to setup new domains and add domain aliases to your Sitefinity SaaS environments and manage their certificates.
  For more information, see Domain management.
• Integration Hub
  The Integrations section of the Management Portal provides the Integration Hub, which enables organizations to connect Sitefinity to 1,000+ critical third-party systems and applications (such as Salesforce, Google, Azure, and Power BI). The Integration Hub is built on a leading iPaaS platform - Workato, which the website administrators use to create custom data connectivity and workflow automation scenarios via a low-code/no-code visual designer.
  For more information, see Integration Hub.
• Boards
  The Boards section of the Management Portal provides a hub for organizing teamwork by utilizing the built-in scrum boards, backlogs, planning tools, and ability to link code changes with work items. Boards also include powerful analytics tools and dashboard widgets that allow you to gain insights into the health and status of your project.
• Wiki
  The Wiki section of the Management Portal provides a hub for organizing and sharing information with the team working on the project. For example, customers can add release notes, product documentation and any other information which should be available to everyone working with the project in the Sitefinity SaaS Management Portal. The Wiki section supports Markdown, as well as all other features outlined in Azure DevOps Wiki.
  

Members of the Access Repos and Pipelines group can manage the integration with external services using Azure DevOps service hooks.
Service Hooks let you run tasks on other services in response to events happening in your project in Azure DevOps. See Azure DevOps documentation describing all supported service hooks events.
Among the most popular services, available as the target of service hooks, are Grafana, Jenkins, Slack, Trello, and Zappier. See Azure DevOps documentation for the complete list of supported service hooks targets.

When you want to integrate any of these services with Azure DevOps, you must set up a Service Hooks subscription. To do this, you use the Service Hooks functionality on the Management Portal by navigating to Project Settings » General.
If the available services do not satisfy a certain use case, you can integrate a generic service Web Hooks, which provides a way to send a POST request with a JSON payload of the event data to a custom endpoint.

Example Service Hooks use cases:

• Create a new message or card in Slack or Trello whenever a new Azure Boards work item is created
• Update a Grafana dashboard annotation upon completion of an Azure Pipelines deployment
• Call a custom endpoint whenever a new pull request is created
  The target endpoint can be implemented as an Azure Function or Logic App, Incoming Webhook connector in Microsoft Teams, or any other tool that exposes a RESTful API.
  

  NOTE: Because the Azure DevOps organization and Microsoft Teams must belong to the same Azure Active Directory, configuring a Microsoft Teams service hook is not supported out of the box. As an alternative, you can use the Web Hooks service to send the event to a customer-controlled endpoint. This will then forward the event to an Incoming Webhook connector in the customer’s Microsoft Teams organization.