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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)

Defining and Using Thumbnails

In the previous section, you discovered how to edit images using the internal editor and how to create metadata for assets. In this section, you will learn how to define thumbnails for images and videos in order to distribute them across different platforms.

In a lot of scenarios, the same images must be shown both on a website and a mobile app, and this requires different resizing due to different spatial content organization and the different shapes and sizes of various devices' screens. Uploading different versions of the image as different assets is not the best solution, because if we want to make a change to the original image, we must resize all the images again.

To avoid this problem, Pimcore provides the ability to define transformation rules to dynamically create different thumbnails both for images and videos. We can therefore upload a high-definition version of the assets and define rules to create smaller resizing.

In this section...