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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
Book Image

Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By: Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà

Overview of this book

Used by over eighty thousand companies worldwide, Pimcore is the leading open source enterprise-level content management system (CMS) solution. It is an impressive alternative to conventional CMSes and is ideal for creating e-commerce and complex enterprise websites. This book helps developers working with standard CMSes such as WordPress and Drupal to use their knowledge of CMSes to learn Pimcore CMS in a practical way. You'll start by learning what Pimcore is and explore its various services such as PIM, MDM, and DAM. The book then shows you various techniques for developing custom websites in Pimcore based on the scale of your organization. You'll learn how to use Pimcore to improve the digital transformation of a company by implementing enterprise Pimcore features. As you advance, you'll discover Pimcore's capabilities and features that make it a faster and more secure alternative to traditional CMSes. As well as demonstrating practical use cases, Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore can help you understand the benefits of using Pimcore as a CMS solution, sharing best practices and proven techniques for designing professional Pimcore sites. By the end of this book, you'll be a trained Pimcore developer, able to create complex websites, and be well-versed in Pimcore's enterprise features such as MDM, PIM, and DAM.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)

Limitations of Standard Functionalities

In the previous sections, you learned how to perform data importing and exporting through standard functionalities. As you learned, these functionalities are easy to configure and work well for simple scenarios.

In this section, you will learn what the main limitations of these standard functionalities are, and you will learn how to implement a custom PHP operator to be used in CSV importing. Let's start by presenting the limitations of the previously seen export functionality.

Limitations of Data Export

In the Exporting data section, you learned how to configure object grids to export object data. When using these configurations, you may encounter the following limitations:

  • Showing complex field values: The grid configuration is quite similar for simple textual and numeric fields, but it could be difficult to extract information for structured fields, such as for Fieldcollections attributes. The Fieldcollections can present...