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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)

Working with the grid component

In this session, we will analyze in detail how the grid component works. We will discover how to perform simple activities such as searches. Moreover, we will also understand what each of the functionalities of the main buttons present on the toolbar is.

First of all, let's take a look at the following screenshot, and see what the grid looks like during use:

Figure 3.7: Grid component

As we can see from the preceding screenshot, there are at least four points of interest in this component:

  1. The first tab bar with the opened entity, already seen before
  2. The toolbar with buttons for the main actions
  3. The second tab bar for a specific document
  4. The opened document

We have listed the elements that make up the grid component seen in Figure 3.7, so now we can describe them in more detail, starting from the first.

First tab bar

This first element we have already seen and it does not need further...