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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)

Defining custom reports

Custom Reports is a report engine that is integrated directly into Pimcore. These reports are based on direct SQL queries on the database, and it's possible to render them both as tables and charts. To define or generate a new custom report, follow these steps:

  1. To create a new report, go to the Marketing menu and click on the Custom Reports menu option.
  2. Then, click on the Add button and insert the report name. After having created the report, you can start configuring it. In the following screenshot, you can see how to set up a report's general settings:

    Figure 13.11: General settings

    As you can see in the previous screenshot, the report Name is the one that was inserted before.

  3. Then, add a user-friendly label and eventually group the reports in folders.
  4. Click on the Create Shortcut in Menu checkbox, and the report will be directly available in the Marketing menu.
  5. After having configured the general settings, the next step...