AW: [opencms-dev] More high-level questions

[Michael Emmerich]

Hello Andre,
 
I hope I can give some answers to your questions:
 
 
1) When creating a project, you can define two user groups, those who can
work in the project and those who can publish it. 
An editor who creates or modifies content must be in the first group, he
cannot publish the changes. Only the users in the second group are allowed
to publish it, therfore you can use a workflow as you described. Note: if
you are useing the "admin" user, you are always allowed ot do everything in
the system.
 
2) This is where Content Definitions and add-on modules are used. You have
to create a Content Definition (see the OpenCms doku for that) do define the
content and write a backoffice class / template that is plugged into the
adminstration view.
 
3) No, at least not "out of the box" The scheduler can start a own class at
a given time. It should be possible to write your own class which publishes
a project when called, so a mechanism as you described should be possible. 
 
4) If you want to use different serverers, you should use the import/export
feature of OpenCms to exchange data between them. 
 
5) This is not possible (yet), but the internal structure of OpenCms is
already prepared for it.
 
6) Link-Checking should be in the next release (if nothing goes wrong).
 
Regards,
    Michael Emmerich
    michael.emmerich at framfab.de <mailto:michael.emmerich at framfab.de> 
 
 I have some more high-level questions and hope, somebody can answer them.


1. The workflow concept seems not very well defined to me. In general, what
I want, is that each page is going to a workflow, that editors enter the
content and once the page is finished, other people having another role, can
check the pages and reject or publish it. SO it is NOT always the same
person editing AND publishing one page. Is this workflow concept supported
with OpenCms? How? 

2. How can I support "strutured" content in OpenCms? I do not want to use
the WYSIWYG editor but instead let the author create pages with some small
text entry fields, possibly some drop down boxes to choose from a predefined
set of values? The advantage would be to enforce a very strict layout. 

3. Can the scheduler be used to automatically publish and remove pages
to/from the live site? 

4. If I want to use a three-server based architecture (production, stage and
live server), how can I configure OpenCms to work this way?

5. Is it possible, to do an "Undo" once you have published your complete
site (to rollback to the previous version)? 

6. Does OpenCms have an integrated link checker? 

It would be great, if somebody can help me out here. 

André 
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Andre Fuechsel, Senior Consultant & Software Architect 
SchlumbergerSema, XML Network / Competence Center Content Management 
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