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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)

Summary

In this chapter, you learned how to import and export data using the standard Pimcore functionalities, which let you import and export CSV files after having defined the respective import and export configurations.

After having described how to properly set up these configurations, you learned which limitations you might encounter when performing these standard functionalities, and how to implement a custom operator to be used in the CSV import process.

Later in this chapter, you learned how to implement custom solutions for importing and exporting. In particular, you learned how to add custom buttons to the Pimcore backend interface, which lets you upload and download files, and how to create commands that can be invoked by the Pimcore console and, eventually, scheduled as background processes.

In the last section, you finally learned how to enable the Data Importer plugin to create import configurations from different kinds of sources, which you can execute manually...