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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)

Exploring Users and Roles

In this section, we will see how we can manage users and their permissions, to limit the functionality of the site in the administration and content management sections. We will see how roles and permissions are created and how they are assigned to users.

During the creation of a site, we often have to manage different parts with different importance. In addition to this, it is possible to differentiate the work we do in the organization. The administration part of the site is important and concerns the creation or editing of contents.

Generally, the part concerning the maintenance and management of the site is the responsibility of the administrator. Thus, tasks such as managing languages, configuring routing rules, or creating users and installing bundles are done by expert users who have the required skills and knowledge, and the privileges to do such actions are dependent on the administrators. The content, on the other hand, is often the responsibility...