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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)

Uploading and Relating Assets

In the previous section, we presented the characteristics of DAM systems, introducing some of Pimcore's specific features. In this section, we are going to see how to upload assets in Pimcore, and then we will see how assets are organized and how to relate assets to existing objects, introducing the various media components for object classes.

Uploading Assets

In this section, we will start discovering how to upload assets in Pimcore. To upload a file, you just need to right-click on an asset folder and hover over the Add Asset(s) option to expand the menu. As you can see in the following figure, assets can be uploaded from different kinds of sources:

Figure 6.2: Uploading Assets

Let's describe the different methods that are shown in the figure:

  • Upload Files: This is the standard file upload form, which allows uploading more than 200 file formats. Multiple files can be uploaded together, and they don&apos...