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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)

Using mutation queries

In the previous section, you learned how to expose entities for Datahub configurations and how to perform queries to retrieve object data. In this section, you will learn how to expose entities for mutations and how to perform queries to create, update, and delete objects.

As we mentioned in the Activating the Pimcore Datahub bundle section, in the Schema Definition panel of Datahub configurations, we must select which classes should be available for mutations and add them to the Mutation Schema section.

As we did for classes in the Query Schema section, we can define which fields can be exposed for mutation queries by clicking on the Settings icon for each added class. Besides, for each class, we can decide whether we want to make it available for creation, update, or deletion.

Throughout this section, we will learn how to perform mutation queries for creating, updating, and deleting objects.

Creating Objects

In this section, you will learn how...