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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)

Exporting Data

In the previous section, you learned how to configure and run CSV imports. In this section, you will learn how to export data. Similar to what we saw in the previous section on data importing, we can set up and save export configurations.

The first step to start a data export is to open an object grid by clicking on an object folder. When the grid is opened, the grid will contain only the class attributes that were marked as Visible in Grid View in the class configuration, as you learned in Chapter 5, Exploring Objects and Classes.

To add or remove the fields that are shown in the grid, you must click on the Grid Options button to open the configuration modal. You can see how this configuration modal looks in the following screenshot:

Figure 14.7: Grid Options Configuration

As you can see in the previous screenshot, the configuration modal structure is quite similar to the one that we saw in the column configuration panel of the import...