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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)

Image Editing and Enrichment

In the previous section, you learned how to upload assets on Pimcore and how to relate them to objects. In this section, we will present the Pimcore-integrated image editor and how to perform product enrichment by creating metadata for images. After that, we will see how to set up a focal point for an image.

Exploring the Image Editor

Pimcore integrates a web-based component for image editing. Based on miniPaint, the image editor is essential for simple manipulation tasks such as color corrections and cropping. In the following figure, you can see how this editor looks:

Figure 6.6: Image Editor

As you can see in the figure, in the left menu we find all the common tools of image editors, such as pencil, eraser, text, and so on. Then, in the top toolbar, we can access other features:

  • Save: This lets you save changes to the image.
  • File: This lets you upload a new image to replace the current one.
  • Edit: Here you...