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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)

Creating a document

In this section, we will see how to create a document using Pimcore CMS. To do this, follow these steps:

  1. Navigate to the document tree and right-click to activate the context menu.
  2. Select Add page and then Blank (to create an empty page):

    Figure 4.2: Adding a page in Pimcore

  3. A modal popup called Add page will appear, with three parameters for you to complete. The Title parameter is the title of the page, the Navigation parameter is the name that will be used in the navigation menu, and Key is a unique key that you choose for the document:

    Figure 4.3: Entering data for the page that we are creating

  4. Click OK and you will see your Home page added to the menu tree:

    Figure 4.4: The page added in the tree menu

  5. Click your newly created page, Home, and the page element will open the page in a new tab. The next figure shows the page editor:

Figure 4.5: The web page

This page tells us that we have created a web page, but...