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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

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Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects

Overview of this book

open-source CMS (content management system) and development framework with functionality for web publishing, intranets, e-commerce, extranets, and web portals. In this book, Martin Bauer of designit.com.au an eZ publish Silver partner, teaches you how to successfully manage and implement an eZ publish web content management project. He shows you how to produce quality results in a repeatable manner with the minimum of effort, and end up with eZ publish solutions that will delight your clients. The book presents strategies, best practices, and techniques for all steps of your eZ publish project, starting from client requirements, through planning, information architecture and content modeling, design considerations, and right up to deployment, client training, maintenance, support, and upgrades.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Managing eZ Publish Web Content Management Projects
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface
Index

Users and Groups


In users and groups, we need to define the users who will interact with the solution and how they are to be grouped.

Note

This should be from the business perspective, as apposed to how we might see users within a standard eZ publish installation.

It's also important to use the same language or terminology as the client. Although a standard user in eZ publish is an editor, the client may use the term author or publisher, in which case, we should use that name to avoid confusion. This allows us to design the system to meet these goals.

The following is an example of users and roles for an e-commerce portal. Firstly, we list and define the specific roles, then for each role we define any further details required.

General Public (Anonymous)

This role includes visitors to the site that do not log in.

Registration

Users enter details, then a confirmation email is sent to their email address with a link that must be clicked to activate the account.

Members

Members are users that have...