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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)

Working with workflows

A workflow consists of a sequence of processes and tasks that represent the work that must be done to reach a common goal. Typically, we may think about workflows as a graph.

Pimcore Workflow Management provides configurations of multiple workflows on assets, documents, data objects, to support data maintenance processes, element life cycles, and various other processes. Pimcore workflows are based on the Symfony workflow component and extend it with specific features. Before starting the configuration of a Pimcore workflow, let's describe the basics concepts of the Symfony workflow component, as follows:

  1. Workflow Type 'Workflow': This is the default type of workflow and allows you to model a workflow net that is a subclass of a petri net. For this kind of workflow, an element can be in several states of the workflow at the same time.
  2. Workflow Type 'State Machine': A state machine is a subset of a workflow and its purpose...