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Modernizing Enterprise CMS Using Pimcore

By : Daniele Fontani, Marco Guiducci, Francesco Minà
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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)

Understanding and Establishing Relations

In this section, we will look in depth into how to relate objects with other entities in Pimcore. As we have seen in the previous section, the first step is to add the appropriate fields onto our class to configure relations between two classes, or relations between classes and other entities (such as documents or assets). Here, you will see all the different kinds of relation components:

Figure 5.12: Relation components

As you may see, there are two main different types of relation fields, the generic relation fields that allow relating objects, documents, or assets, and specific relation fields for object classes. For each type, we can establish a many-to-one relation, many-to-many relation, or advanced many-to-many relation. The last one lets you define some additional metadata fields that can be attached to the relation instances.

In the following sections, we will focus on the two main types of relation components...