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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
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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)

Summary

In this chapter, we introduced Pimcore's Digital Asset Management (DAM) feature. After defining the common characteristics of all DAM systems, we presented how these characteristics are implemented in Pimcore.

We then learned how to upload assets in Pimcore, selecting various formats of files from different kinds of sources, which could be offline or online. Then, we learned how to organize assets using folders and tags and how to relate assets to objects. In particular, we presented the different data components that can be used to attach assets to objects.

After that, we saw how to edit images through the integrated editor and how to enhance image content by defining metadata for them. In particular, we learned how to create predefined metadata definitions and how to define custom metadata for each asset.

We then focused on asset distribution, learning how to create thumbnail definitions for images and videos. We saw how to practically use thumbnails in development...