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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)

Exposing entities

In the previous section, you learned how to activate a Datahub bundle and how to create a new configuration. In this section, you will learn how to set up the configuration to expose entities and how to perform queries on Datahub.

As we mentioned in the previous section, in the Schema Definition panel of the Datahub configurations, we must select which classes should be available for queries, and add them in the Query Schema section.

For each class, we must define which fields can be exposed for queries. This can be done by clicking on the Settings icon for each added class. In the following screenshot, you can see how to select the fields to expose:

Figure 13.8: Query Schema fields

As you can see in the previous screenshot, on the left side you can find a list of the class fields. If you double-click one of these fields or drag and drop a field on the right column, that field will be exposed and will be available for queries. Once...