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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)

Chapter 4: Creating Documents in Pimcore

In the first three chapters, we provided an introduction to Pimcore and explained how to move around the admin interface. They were necessary steps because we now have the basics required to start learning how to use Pimcore for creating beautiful websites and solve all the digital innovation problems we introduced in the first chapter.

Now it is time to start facing some practical elements of Pimcore. We are going to introduce many topics throughout the coming chapters, with growing complexity, to master the entire Pimcore platform. In this chapter specifically, we will learn, step by step, how to create web pages using Pimcore.

In this chapter, we will cover the following topics:

  • What is a document?
  • Creating a document
  • Creating a template
  • Editing a document
  • Inheriting documents

Learning about Pimcore documents will help you when it comes to building a simple website by defining your page format and designs...