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Building Websites with OpenCms

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Building Websites with OpenCms

Overview of this book

This book takes you through the process of creating content-rich websites and applications using OpenCms. Although powerful and flexible, OpenCms can be daunting on first approach, but its advanced features reward the investment in learning. This book exists to ease Java developers into getting the most from OpenCms. OpenCms OpenCms is a professional-level, open source Website Content Management System, with which you can create and manage complex websites. Based on Java and XML technology, it fits into almost any modern IT environment. With hard-won experience of the practical difficulties faced by developers working with OpenCms, this book is the embodiment of the author's expertise, and the perfect way to master the system.
Table of Contents (12 chapters)
Building Websites with OpenCms
Credits
About the Author
Introduction

Workflow


A fundamental aspect of good enterprise-level content management is the capability to handle workflow of resources as they make their way through the editorial process. The workflow view provides a task-based interface to the system. Already, we've created a project to manage a particular subset of our content. Through the workflow view, we will be able to assign editors tasks to complete within the project.

To enter the workflow view, select Workflow from the View drop-down box in the top toolbar.

Creating and Managing Tasks

Initially, the workflow task list is empty. We are going to create a task in the Playground project, so select Playground Project from the Project drop-down list in the toolbar. Once you've done this, click the red check-mark icon ( ) to create a new task.

Choose the appropriate group from the Task for drop-down list. Since I want to assign it to Admin (me), and Admin is not in the traditional groups, I selected all roles from the list. The next drop-down box...