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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 12: Implementing Product Information Management

In previous chapters, you learned about some key features of the Pimcore environment presented in Chapter 1, Introducing Pimcore. In particular, in Chapter 6, Using Digital Asset Management, you discovered the Pimcore Digital Asset Management (DAM) feature and all aspects related to images and asset management. Then, in Chapter 4, Creating Documents in Pimcore, and in Chapter 8, Creating Custom CMS Pages, you learned about the concept of content management systems (CMSes) and how to create documents and site pages.

In this chapter, we will go in-depth through the concept of Product Information Management (PIM), putting into practice the concepts of Pimcore classes learned in Chapter 5, Exploring Objects and Classes, to define a Product entity. The chapter is organized as follows:

  • What is a PIM?
  • Defining the Product entity
  • Creating Product Variants
  • Creating a Bundle Product
  • Managing different Product...