Vignette Content Management System

February,2012

Agenda

• A quick Introduction• Working of Vignette CMS• Implementations

Introduction

Who we are

Pragya Awasthi Software Engineer Trainee

Ajay Yadav Software Engineer Trainee

Prashant Kumar Software Engineer Trainee

CMS Introduction

What is Content

Content is any information that is being distributed. A book, a magazine article, and the information on a website are all content.

Content Management System

A CMS is a tool, or a combination of tools, that can help you create, edit, publish and manage your online content, be it in any given form. The process enables the easy management of your content in electronic or digital format.

Why CMS ?

Why CMS ?

Why CMS ?

Why CMS ?

So, we need a DB, to which we add contents

Use forms to enter Data

Input Once,Output many

formats

Correct Once, Correct many formats

Each display format can have different design

Comforts of a CMS

• Decentralized maintenance.• Designed, keeping non technical content

authors in mind.• Configurable access restrictions.• Consistency of design is preserved.

List of some CMS in market

• Vignette/OpenText• Documentum• Sharepoint server• Intervowen• Fatwire• Adobe Day• IBM Lotus WCM• Drupal• Alfresco• Liferay• Joomla• Wordpress• …And many more

Vignette Content Management

Vignette Content Management

Focus on the needs of 4 main people

• Businessmen: I want to create a site

• Managers/Departments: I want to keep my product’s data up to

date• Developers• Administrators: To administer VCM

I want to create and maintain an updated website for my news channel

Hey… Mr. Businessman, Here is the tool you are looking for….

Content

Workspace

Creating Site & Channels

Marketing Manager

Heyyy… Mr. Manager, Here is the tool you are searching for…

Content Workspace

Editing The Content

Editing The Presentation

Wow… that’s great but if I can do everything then where will I need web developers & where will they work on…?

Management Console

The Developer

• Developers will make input forms for you in which you can enter or edit your data

• These forms are called Content Type Definitions or “CTD”

• How will they do it, we will discuss about it later, in detail…

Hey… I am the administrator & I don’t want a reporter to write & publish whatever he wants, until my Boss allows…

Well, for that Mr. Administrator, we have workflow & stages…

•Workflow Modeler•Configuration Console

Workflows and…..

• Newspaper Stories• Reporter—Editors—Chief editor—Layout staff—Printing—Once

approved, will be ready to publish• Workflow can be made so that writer, editor, and so on, each person

has a task to complete

…. Stages

Management StageOnly after approval of Your Boss, the content will be published to the

web

Once published,it moves to production

stage

Production Stage

This content is nowLive on web for your

Internet user

Each stage hasIts own database

Each stage hasIts own database

The content is moved &placed by deployment agents

with the help of contentdelivery services

So, Here is the summary of tools…

• Businessmen: Content Workspace• Managers: Content Workspace• Developer: Management Console• Administrators: Workflow Modeler &

Configuration Console

In your part, You were going to explain working of VCM… where is the working…?

The architecture of VCM

Vignette Architecture

Runtime Services provide access to runtimeservices for the working of vignette on the management side, includinga J2EE application server, LDAP directoryservices, and JDBC database drivers.

Configuration console

Overview Till Now…

MANAGEMENT STAGE PRODUCTION STAGE

VignetteAPI

CONTENT IS READY HERE

VignetteVignettePortal ServicePortal Service

Templates, etc.

PRESENTATIONIS HERE

www.xyz.com

Separate databaseNO DIRECT CONTENT

Separate database

No direct content

Hey… I am developer… Tell me, How to make those CTDs for my Client “Parker”

Mr. Developer, you will useManagement console to develop your stuff…!!!

Implementation

Getting access and Logging on

• Enter the URL in following format• Host:port/AppConsole , • Enter the credentials

CTD Creation

Widgets in Details

What it does

Problems faced while

implementing

Solution

Widgets

GUID EditLive!for java

Relator Content select

Static Select

DataSelectCCE

Date Selector

File

GUID

Add a hidden field that maps to a 40-character Globally Unique Identifier (GUID) that's generated and used as the value for this field.

Available Data types—String

* Problem faced---N/A* Solution– N/A

EditLive ! For java

• Add a text area that includes the EditLive! for Java  HTML editor. This HTML editor allows content contributors to apply HTML formatting to their content instances without having to know and write HTML code. Content contributors can select icons and menu items from a tool bar to format their content instances in HTML code.

• Available Data Type Definitions –String ,CLOB

Problems “we” faced while implementing…• EditLive ! Html editor not visible while creating

CI’s• Text and images as input to HTML were not visible

when we re-open the CI’s

How to resolve…??• for error 1 , ditch buggy chrome and pick up

Mozilla Firefox or IE• For error 2, instead of using JRE 1.6.x use JRE

1.5.x

Relator Widget

Creates a relationship between two database tables. Available Data types– String , Integer

Problems “we” faced while implementing…1. Relator Widget not visible while creating CI’s

Content Select CCE Widget • The Content Select CCE widget allows you to

provide means by which a content contributor can easily specify a VCM-managed object as the value for the field.

• Available data types– String, Integer

ProblemsFaced-N/A

Solutions-N/A

Static Select Widget Add a drop-down selection list that

corresponds to the <select> HTML tag. Available Data types—String,Decimal, Integer

Data Select CCE

The Data Select CCE widget allows you to provide a selection list in the content entry form that is automatically populated from an external data source

Problems faced while implementing…??Drop down list wasn’t populating !!

Date Selector

Add a selection list of months, days, and years, which lets content contributors specify a date.

Available Data Type Definitions –String ,date

Click Here

This Pops up

vgnimport

• Importing in the Vignette Content software is the act of reading a package file to either add data objects to a target VCM Server or update or delete existing data objects in a VCM Server.

• The command for importing a package file into a VCM Server is vgnimport and is available as a batch file.

• The command line to run this utility is:  vgnimport -u <username> -h <host:port> -f <path to zip

file>/vgnext.zip 

Thank You…!!!