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Building Websites with TYPO3

By : Michael Peacock
Book Image

Building Websites with TYPO3

By: Michael Peacock

Overview of this book

<p>The book has 8 chapters, each dealing with a different aspect of TYPO3 and by the end you can genuinely claim to have tamed the beast that is TYPO3.</p> <p class="TISBody">TYPO3 is a popular, free, feature-rich open source content management system. It has the flexibility and scalability to more than match commercial systems and allow you to build a powerful and complex website. Because of its complex system and numerous extensions, TYPO3 can be daunting on first approach and the initial learning curve can be steep. However the nature of its advanced features will reward an extra investment in learning.</p>
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Workspaces


A workspace allows groups of users to work together to process draft content. There is a comprehensive guide to workspaces and versioning on the TYPO3 website, http://typo3.org/documentation/document-library/core-documentation/doc_core_inside/current/view/3/7/.

Here, we will take a brief look at this feature!

Note

Note that there is no relation between a workflow and a workspace. These are two separate things entirely; however, they can be used in tandem. For instance, we could have our workspace containing new pages that are not public, and use a workflow to allocate the tasks of adding the content to these pages.

Creating a Workspace

Let us create a development workspace, where we will keep pages for a new section meant for resellers, who are going to resell the store's stock. We will need a new page to head this section, such as 'Resellers', which is not visible to the public.

To create a new workspace, we need to go to the New record screen, which we can do by clicking on the...