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User Guide

A guide to using eXo Content.


Preface
1. Give us Feedback
1. Overall Introduction
1.1. Overview
1.2. Why Use eXo Content
1.3. About This Document
1.4. References and Related Sources
2. Product Introduction
2.1. eXo Content
2.2. Site Content Structure
2.3. Web Content
2.3.1. Web Content
2.3.2. Web Content Structure
2.4. Terminologies
2.4.1. Repository
2.4.2. Workspace
2.4.3. Drive
2.4.4. Node
2.4.5. Version
2.4.6. WebDAV
2.4.7. Podcast
2.4.8. File Plan
2.4.9. Symlink
3. Get Started
3.1. Account
3.1.1. Register an account
3.1.2. Sign In
3.1.3. Sign Out
3.1.4. Retrieve user name/password
3.1.5. Change account information
3.2. Change the display language
3.3. Change the skin of the current site
4. Basic Actions
4.1. View a site
4.2. Print content
4.3. Manage a site
4.3.1. Create a new site
4.3.2. Edit a site
4.3.3. Switch between sites
4.3.4. Delete a site
4.4. Contribute Content
4.4.1. Edit Mode
4.4.2. InContext Editing
4.4.3. Publication Process
4.5. Content Inside Categories
4.5.1. Categories in eXo Content
4.5.2. Create a Content
4.6. Dynamic Navigation
4.7. Content Explorer
4.7.1. Access Content Explorer
4.7.2. Drives
4.7.3. Views
4.7.4. Actions
4.7.5. Manage Content In Content Explorer
4.7.6. Actions on Folders and Documents
4.8. Manage Content with WebDAV
4.8.1. What is WebDAV?
4.8.2. Why use WebDAV?
4.8.3. How to Use WebDAV With eXo Content
4.8.4. Actions
4.9. Search in Content Explorer
4.9.1. Quick Search
4.9.2. Advanced Search
4.9.3. Search with saved queries
4.10. Preferences
4.11. Newsletters
4.11.1. Newsletter Viewer
4.11.2. Manage Newsletters
4.12. Fast Content Creator
4.12.1. Configuration
4.12.2. Create a new document
4.12.3. View a new document
4.13. Form Builder
4.14. Category Navigation
5. Advanced Actions
5.1. Manage Site Resources in one place
5.1.1. CSS Folder
5.1.2. Document Folder
5.1.3. JS Folder
5.1.4. Links Folder
5.1.5. Media Folder
5.1.6. Web Content Folders
5.2. Administration Page
5.2.1. Categories and Tags
5.2.2. Content Presentation Manager
5.2.3. Content Types
5.2.4. Advanced Configuration
6. Next Steps
A. Revision History

If you find a typographical error, or know how this guide can be improved, we would love to hear from you. Submit a report in JIRA against eXo Content. The following link will take you to bug report for eXo Content http://jira.exoplatform.org.

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If you are looking for a powerful tool and strategies in managing website and contents, eXo Content is what you need. eXo Content is designed to provide webmasters who manage websites the way to maintain, control, modify and reassemble the content of a web-page easily and effectively. All components of your website can be organized, or easily reconstructed, which helps you keep your website under control. eXo Content really brings an interesting experience for all users and changes their way of thinking about website management. The followings are key features of eXo Content:

And More...

eXo Content also provides other powerful tools to manage and build content-rich websites such as CSS, Java Script and RSS support, advanced document management tools, collaboration tools and more. All eXo Content features are designed to meet your requirements in site management and maximise the cost reduction that comes of managing multiple sites from only one place.

eXo Content is the singular name for the technologies used to capture, manage, store, preserve, and deliver content and documents. It especially concerns content imported into or generated from within an organization in the course of its operation, and includes the control of access to this content from outside the organization's processes.

The eXo Content users can manage both structured and unstructured content, so that an organization, such as a business or a governmental agency, can more effectively meet business goals (increasing the profits or improving the organizational process with efficient use of budgets), serve its customers (as a competitive advantage, or to improve responsiveness), and protect itself (against non-compliance, law-suits, uncoordinated departments or turnover within the organization).

eXo Content improves your operational productivity and efficiency. It enables you to transform unstructured content into structured content through the process of capturing, storing, managing, preserving, publishing and backing up while securely distributing it. The eXo Content portlet gives you a portal solution that can help you achieve these processes and leverage your business content across all formats for competitive gain. It also provides an environment for employees to share and collaborate on digital content and delivering a comprehensive unified solution with rich functionalities. Every component of your website can be organized, or easily reconstructed, which helps you keep your website under control.

eXo Content consists of three parts:

To register a new account on the portal, do as follows:

After adding a new account, contact the administrator to get a confirmation.

These actions are for all registered users after they have logged in the accounts.

eXo Content administrators can create a site (portal) to meet their specific needs.

Do the following:

  1. Click Site on the administration bar to see a list of existing portals.

  2. Click the Add New Portal button to open the form to add a new portal.

    In the Portal Setting tab, set some properties for this site including the portal name, locale and skin.


  3. Select the Properties tab to keep sessions alive.

    The Keep session alive option defines the working session so as to avoid timeouts. There are three options available:

  4. Select the Permission Setting tab to set access and edit permission for this portal.

    The Permission Setting tab includes two sub-tabs: Access Permission Setting and Edit Permission Setting.

  5. Click Save to create the new portal.

After creating a new site, the list of the existing sites will be displayed on the screen.

The new site will be added to the site list in Site on the administration bar and to a drive list that includes all its default files.

To see it in the drive list, click GroupContent Explorer on the administrator bar.

For example, after creating a portal named eXo there is a drive named eXo in Content Explorer:

This function enables you to edit a site, including the settings, permissions and other configuration options as well as the navigation and the layout components.

There are two ways to approach a site that you want to edit:

Directly edit the site you are browsing by navigating to Site EditorEdit Layout.

An editable layout of the site appears:


Using this method you can only edit the layout and the configuration of site.

Edit layout

Editing the layout allows more aspects of a site, including the banner, navigation bar, breadcrumb bar, homepage or footer to be edited.

You can add more portlets to the site by dragging and dropping them from the Applications tab of the Edit Inline Composer form to the main pane. Portlets can also be moved within the main content pane by dragging them from one location to another.

Procedure 4.2. Edit Banner Portlet

  1. Open the form to edit a banner by clicking the pencil icon of the portlet in the Edit Portal form:

    A form to edit the current banner will appear:

  2. Select the Edit Mode tab:


    More Info

    Click the question mark icon to see more information about each field.

  3. Select the Portlet Setting tab:


  4. Switch to the Icon tab and designate an icon for the portlet by clicking it.

  5. Switch to the Decoration Theme tab and chose a decoration theme for the portlet.

  6. Select the Access Permission tab and set the access permissions for the portlet.

    By default, all users can access the portlet:

    However, you can edit the access permission by clearing the checkbox and clicking Add Permission:

    The ListPermissionSelector form appears. Select a group on the left pane and a membership on the right pane.

  7. Click Save and Close to commit.

  8. Click the disk icon to quit the form to edit the current site.

Edit Configuration

To edit the configuration (including language, skin and permissions) of the site, click the Site's Config button to open the same form as the form to add a new portal.

Follow the same steps as in Section 4.3.1, “Create a new site”.

Note

You cannot change the name of the site.

This approach way enables you to edit the layout, configuration and navigation bar of a site by going to Sites and selecting the site from the existing site list.

Edit Layout

Do the following to edit the layout of an existing site.

Edit Navigation

Do the following to edit the navigation of a site.

  1. Click SiteEdit Navigation to open the Navigation Management form.

  2. Click Add Node to open the ADD/EDIT PAGE NODE form.

  3. In the Page Node Setting tab, enter a name for the node. This is a required value.


  4. Select the Page Selector tab:


    • Enter a title for the page.

    • Click Create Page to create a new page or Search and Select Page to select an existing page for the node.

  5. Select the Icon tab to choose an icon for the node. This is optional.

  6. Click Save to create a node for the navigation.

Edit Configuration

The portal's configuration including language, skin and permissions can be edited by doing the following:

InContext Editing enables you to edit content "in context" rather than having a WYSIWYG editor pop-up over the top of the page. This feature makes page editing a much more user intuitive process, with the new content automatically taking on the previous contents.

To use InContext Editing, turn on the Edit Mode.

Preferences enable you to edit contents in the Single Content Viewer (SCV) and the Content List Viewer (CLV), reset the display of the contents in SCV and CLV and publish contents.

Content Detail Preferences

Do the following to edit the Single Content Viewer:

Procedure 4.8. Edit Content Detail Viewer

  1. Turn on the Edit mode and click the Preferences icon of a Single Content Viewer.

    The Content Detail Preferences dialog appears:


    Note

    Click the question mark icon to see a quick help pane for each section.

  2. Click the plus icon next to the Content Path to re-select another content. The Select Content dialog appears:

  3. Choose a folder on the left panel and a content in the folder on the right panel. The content chosen will be displayed in the Content Path field.

  4. Tick the checkboxes, including the Show Title box, the Show Date and the Show Option bar box if you want to display the content title, the publication date and the print button like the illustration below:

  5. In the Print Setting area, click the magnifying glass icon to open the UIPageselector dialog, you will see Printviewer.

    Click the Print button and the content is opened in the print viewer page.


  6. Click Save to save all the changes.

Content List Preferences.

To edit the Single Content Viewer, do the following:

Procedure 4.9. Edit Content List Viewer

  1. Turn on the Edit Mode and click the Preferences icon of a Content List Viewer.

    The Content List Preferences dialog appears:

    Table 4.8. 

    Field Details
    Mode

    This mode is to select web content for list viewer. There are two modes:

    • By Folder: This mode allows you to select a content folder in the Folder path field.

    • By Content: This mode allows you to select by the content in a specific folder in the Folder path field.

    Folder path The path to a location of a folder that contains the content.
    Order by The field is selected to sort content in the list viewer. You can sort content by Title, Date created or Date modified in ascending or descending order.
    Header The title of all contents that are listed in List Viewer.
    Viewer template The template is used to view content list.
    Paginator template The template is used to view each content in the list.
    Items per page The number of items will be displayed per page.
    Show image The option is to show or hide the illustration of each published web content/document.
    Show summary The option is to show or hide the summary of each web content/document.
    Show header The option is whether to show a header or not.
    Show refresh button The option is whether to show the refresh button at the left bottom of this page or not.
    Show title The option is to show or hide title of each published web content and/or document.
    Show date created The option is to show or hide the created date of each published web content/document.
    Show link The option is to show or hide the link of web content and/or document.
    Read more The option is to show or hide the Read more to read all the content of a web content and/or document.

  2. Browse the documents or web content of an available site by clicking the blue plus icon next to the folder path field.

  3. If you select the By folder mode, select an available site on the left, then select a folder that contains contents (documents and/or web content) on the right by clicking the folder.

    If you select the By content mode, select an available folder from the left panel, all content in this folder will be listed on the right panel. Click a content on the right that you want to add to the content list. A message informs that you have successfully added it in the Content List. The selected content is listed in the Content List.

  4. Enter a header for the content list in the Header field if desired.

  5. Select a template to display the content list in the template list.

  6. Tick/untick the options that you want.

  7. Click Save to save all the changes.

After a new content is created, it is saved as draft and you can easily to publish it on your site. The publication process consists of four steps:

Request approvalApprovalStagePublish

If you do not have the right to approve or publish content, you need to send an approval request to have you content approved and published.

If you have the right to approve or publish a content, you do not need to send a request approval. You can yourself publish it with the Stage step immediately.

Dynamic Navigation enables you to set a parameter to configure the portlet by URL. This means that the URL containing the content path can be dynamically changed.

This section shows you how to use Dynamic Navigation in eXo Content.

Procedure 4.11. Access Dynamic Navigation

  1. Turn on the Edit Mode and hover the mouse cursor over either an SCV content element or a CLV content element. Click the Preferences icon that appears.

  2. Show the Dynamic Navigation pane by clicking the Advanced link at the bottom of the preferences window.



    For example, open a single content with the Content Path ACME Introduce. The URL of the content is the following:

    http://example.com:8080/ecmdemo/private/acme/printviewer?content-id=/repository/collaboration/sites content/live/acme/web contents/site artifacts/Introduce&isPrint=true



There are many drives in the Content Explorer. Each drive has different views that allow you to look at the data in the drive in a particular way. Each view has various actions available on tabs in the viewing pane.

eXo Content offers four ways to view nodes in a specific folder and show the corresponding actions on the Actions bar.

Actions appear as tabs on the action bar of the Content Explorer pane. They are managed by administrators. The actions visible to any given user will depend on their role permissions and the tab and drive they are browsing.

This section discusses the actions available in eXo Content's Content Explorer and how to use them.

There are several types of document in eXo Content, includingFile, Article,Podcast,Sample node, File Plan andKofax.

The table below shows nodes types to which different document types can be added. The rows indicate what the node in the left column can be added to. The columns indicate what the node at the top can contain.


Note

  • The green tick icon indicates that the corresponding document can be added into.

  • A blank entry means the corresponding document cannot be added into.

Follow the horizontal, you will know what the node can be added to.

Follow the vertical, you will know what the node can include.

Do the following to add a new document:

Procedure 4.19. Create a new File document

  1. Follow the steps in Add a new document to open the Add New Document form, then select File from the Select Template drop-down list.

    The Add New Document form will be displayed.

  2. Enter a name for the file document in the Name field. Some special characters cannot be used in the Name field: @ # % & * ( ) “ ' : ; [ ] {} / !

  3. Click the scroll arrows icon to see the Mime Type list and select one. There are two types of File document for you to choose:

    • text/html: When creating a text/html File document, you can input source code (HTML, for example) in the Content field. After being created, the desired content will be generated, then you can see both the inputted source code and the generated content in that document.

    • text/plain: After being created, the content will display exactly what you entered in the Content field.

  4. Input a value in the Content field:

    • text/html: If chose to create a File document with source code and then generated content (inStep 3), click the Source button in the editor bar. In this mode, only theSave, New Page and Preview icons are available. Click the magnifying glass icon to preview the generated content.

    • text/plain: If you selected text/plain type in Step 3, the content field will be displayed like so:

  5. Fill values in all the fields, includingTitle,Description, Creator andSource.

    Click the plus icon to open more fields.

  6. Click Save as Draft to create a new File document.

    After being created successfully, a text/html File document will be displayed as:

    You can see both the original and rendered views in the respective tabs at the top of the window:

Procedure 4.20. Create a new Article

  1. Follow the steps in Add a new document to open the Add New Document form. The Article type should be selected by default. If not, select it from the Select Template drop-down list.

    The Add New Document form will be displayed.

  2. Input the name and the title of the Article in the Name and Title field, some special characters cannot be used in the Name field (@ # % & * ( ) “ ' : ; [ ] {} / !).

  3. Enter some content in the Summary and Content fields.

  4. Click Save as Draft to save the entered content or Cancel to quit without saving.

After being created, the new added Article document will appear as so:

The Links section is used to list all its related documents. After adding relations for a document you can click these links to view the content of the related documents.

The Attachments section is used to list all its uploaded files/documents that is attached with the Article. You can remove the attachments by clicking the trash can icon.

For more details about how to add an attachment, seeAttach files to a document.

Existing Names

Document names can be the same as an existing document. When a new document is created with the same name as another document, the new document name will have an added index (e.g:test [2]).

Once created, a Podcast will appear as so:

Podcasts can be listened to immediately, or transferred to another device.

Procedure 4.22. Create a new Sample node

  1. Follow the instructions in Add a new document to open the Add New Document window and select Sample node from the Select Template drop-down list.

    The Add New Sample Node form will appear.

  2. Complete the appropriate fields.

  3. To upload an image, click the Browse... button and select an image from your computer.

  4. Click Save as Draft to accept.

After being created, a new sample node will be displayed like the illustration below:

The Relations area is used to list all related documents. SeeSection 4.7.4.15.3, “View Relations”.

You can click the links to view content of the related document.

The Attachments area is used to list all its uploaded files. SeeAttach files to a document.

Procedure 4.23. Create a new File Plan

  1. Follow the instructions in Add a new document to open the Add New Document window and select File plan from the Select Template drop-down list.

    The Add File plan form will appear.

  2. Fill in the appropriate fields of the tabs in the Add File plan form.

  3. Click Save as Draft to accept creating a file plan.

    Tabs in the Add File plan form

    The Name tab

    The Record properties tab

    The Process Properties tab:

    Table 4.16. 

    FieldDetails
    Process cutoffs The boolean data type is used to break a process. If the process cutoff flag is set in the file plan, the record is cutoff after the expiration, or after it has been obsolete or superseded, depending on the information in the file plan.
    Event trigger The text data type is an automatic executing code which is used to tell the event to perform some actions.
    Cutoff period The duration for the record cutoff performance.
    Cutoff on obsolete The record is cutoff when it is obsolete.
    Cutoff on superseded The record is cutoff when it is removed or replaced.
    Process hold This boolean data type is used when a record process may be held before the further disposition is handled.
    Hold period The duration when a record may be held after cutoff which is normally measured in years.
    Discretionary Hold The boolean data type is used when a hold may be discretionary, such as after a command change. So, the discretionary hold flag allows the records management module to track these manual checks.
    Process transfer The boolean data type is used to determine how a record process will be transferred.
    Default transfer location The text data type is used to determine where a record is transferred by default.
    Transfer block size The float data type is used to determine in what size blocks for organizational purposes that is normally measured in Years.
    Process accession The boolean data type is flagged when a record which is held permanently must be ultimately transferred to the national records authority.
    Accession location The text data type is flagged to specify an area for the accession transfer.
    Accession block size The text data type is flagged to determine the blocks size for organizational purposes which is normally measured in years.
    Process destruction The boolean data type is flagged if there is any record to be destroyed. After that, the record is marked in the Alfresco system to be permanently destroyed so that all information, metadata and physical traces are removed and cannot be recovered.

After being created, the new File Plan will be displayed:

Procedure 4.24. Create a new Kofax

  1. Follow the instructions in Add a new document to open the Add New Document form and select Add New Kofax from the Select Template drop-down list.

    The Add New Kofax form will appear:

  2. Enter a name for a Kofax document in the Name field. This field is required. Some special characters cannot be used in the Name field(@ # % & * ( ) “ ' : ; [ ] { } / !).

  3. Select categories for the document by clicking the plus icon.

  4. Click Save as Draft to create the document.

A newly created kofax document will be displayed like this:

The File View tab is used to display all added nodes in that Kofax. All added files in that Kofax are also displayed in the Document View tab:

Procedure 4.25. Create new Event

  1. Follow the instructions in Add a new document to open the Add New Document form and select Event from the Select Template drop-down list.

    The Add New Event window will appear:

  2. Enter a title for the event.

  3. Enter the location where the event will take place in the Location field. Check the Google Maps checkbox if you want the location of the event shown on Google Maps.

  4. Enter the Start and End Date/time of the event.

  5. Fill the Summary and Content fields.

  6. Click Save to commit the event.

After being created, the event will be displayed like the illustration bellow:

The event will be displayed in a website as:

You can create a document directly in a specific drive; however, adding documents to a specific folders allows more effective document management.

There are two types of folder:

In the default Portal skin, the icon for a content folder node is displayed in blue and the icon for a document folder node is displayed in yellow.

Procedure 4.34. 

  1. Select the node you want to add an action to.

  2. Click the Manage Actions button on the action bar.

    The Manage Actions form will appear.

  3. Select the Add Actions tab to open the form to add an action to the folder.

  4. Click the scroll arrows icon and select the type of action from the drop-down menu.


  5. Complete the required fields in the form for the selected action.


  6. Click Save to commit the action.

All actions of a node are listed in the Available Actions tab.

Once an action is added to a node it is automatically added to any child nodes of the selected node.

If an action added with the lifecycleuser action, it will be applied for the current node. And an action added with other lifestyles, it will be applied for the child nodes.

This function is used to support users to add multiple languages for a document. Each document can be displayed in many languages.

To view the languages list of a document, do the following:

File Plan Language

You cannot add multiple languages to a File Plan or any subnodes of a File Plan.

This function allows you to upload a file from your machine. All file types can be uploaded. The uploaded file name cannot include the special characters: ! @ $ % & [ ].

Procedure 4.61. Uploading a File into a Folder

  1. Select the folder that you want to upload a file into (you can select from either the left or right panels).

  2. Select the Actions tab to show some actions on the action bar.

  3. Click the Upload button on the action bar to open the Upload a file form:

  4. Browse and select a file on your device by clicking the Browse... button. The selected file name will be displayed in the Select a file field.

    If you want to upload multi files at the same time, click the plus icon to open more forms to upload more files:

    The trash can icon closes the upload file form.

  5. You can change the uploaded file by clicking the trash can icon and clicking the Browse... button again to select another file.

  6. By default, the name of the uploaded file will be kept as original but if you want to change, you can type a new name in the Name field (the new name must not contain the special characters: ! @ $ % & [ ]). This field is not required.

  7. You can click the plus icon next to the List Taxonomy field to add categories for this file:

  8. Select categories by clicking the green tick icon. Click the plus to open child nodes of categories.

  9. Complete uploading file by clicking Save.

  10. After being saved, the main information of the uploaded file will be displayed:

  11. Click the pencil icon to see more details of its external metadata information. The List external metadata tab will be enabled. Values can be entered into fields on this tab.

  12. Click Save to accept changes or Cancel to quit without any changes.

  13. Data can be added to the uploaded file. Check the checkbox, then click Add or Cancel to quit without adding anything.

  14. New metadata is displayed in the External Metadatas list and this can be edited it by clicking the pencil icon.

  15. Click Close to quit the Uploaded information form.

  16. After being uploaded, the tree is displayed in the left panel:

    File Size Limits

    The size of the uploaded file depends on the size limit of the uploaded file that you set up in the Edit mode of Content Explorer. If your file size exceeds the limit, a pop-up message will appears to alert you.

This function enables an administrator to manage the permissions for nodes.

With the Permissions Management form open you can perform the following actions:

A web content is a key resource in creating a site. Other resources make a site more dynamic and animated by using layout, color, font, and more. This section focuses on how to manage a web content in a specific site.

This function is used to add a new web content into a specific site.

Procedure 4.70. Add new content

  1. Go to the Sites Management drive and select a site that you want to add a web content to.

  2. Select the web content folder on the left:

    Note

    You also can add the new web content into other folders (documents and media folder) of a site but it is recommended that you add new content to the web content folder because:

    • It will allow you to manage web content of a site more easily.

    • If you add a new web content in this folder, you don't need to select a web content document in the list of document types. This makes adding a new web content more flexible.

  3. Open the Add New Document form by clicking the Add Document icon on the Action bar.

  4. Select a template in the Select Template field to present web content:

    The Select Template field has two options:

    • Picture on head layout web content: The site's content is presented in two spaces. One for inserting an image and one for editing the site's content. In which, the image is put at the head of a site.

    • Free layout web content: This template is a free layout.

  5. Enter values in the fields of the Add New Document form.

  6. Click Save as Draft to save the content or Cancel to exit the form.

  7. Tabs in the Add New Document form

    The Main Content Tab includes:


    The Illustration Tab allows you to upload an illustration that makes the site's content more attractive.


    Do the following to upload an image:

    The Advanced tab:

    This tab includes two parts: CSS data and JS data:


This function helps you publish a web content that you have added to web content folder in Content Explorer.

See Section 4.4.3, “Publication Process” to know how to publish a web content.

After the content is published, all users who have the right to access that position can view the published web content as a page on the Navigation bar.

This section will discuss actions that can be performed on folders and document, both from the right-click menu (Cut and Paste for example) and manual actions (like dragging and dropping).

The actions available in the right-click menu are different for folders and documents.

The actions available for documents are:

The actions available for folders are:

This function is used to make a copy of a node (including subnodes) in other places.

There are two ways to cut/copy/paste the node:

After the action has been taken, a confirmation message will appear with detailed information about the destination path.

This function is used to move a node (include subnodes) to other places. There are two ways to cut/paste documents:

After the action has been taken, a confirmation message will appear with detailed information about the destination path.

This function helps you remove folders/documents from theirs location easily. Follow the steps in Section 4.7.5.3, “Delete a web content”

Delete Rights

  • You can only use the Delete action if you have the appropriate permissions on the node.

  • If the deleted node contains subnodes, these will also be deleted.

To use WebDAV with eXo Content, you first need to have an active network connection. Next, you can follow one of the two following ways:

Procedure 4.89. Method Two: Sites Management

This method can be done using the Sites Management functionality of eXo Content:

  1. Navigate to http://localhost:8080/portal in your web browser.

  2. Click GroupContent Explorer in the administration bar.

  3. Click the Drives button then select Sites Management.

    You will see all sites listed in the left sidebar:

  4. Right-click the site you want to view with WebDAV and select the Download and Allow Edition item in the menu.

    The selected site will be shown in WebDAV:

    In this view, you can access documents in the directories that are linked to the web server.

There are three ways to search an existing node:

To perform an advanced search:

The tabs in this form offer different search functions:

This search enables you to search with more constraints to limit the returned results.

Extra search constraints are entered in the Advanced Search tab of the Advanced Search form.

The Current location field is not editable; it shows the path selected to search.

Procedure 4.91. 

  1. Enter search terms in the A word or phrase in content field.

  2. Select the Operator.

    • Select the AND operator to only return results that meet both the search terms and the entered constraints (see Step 3).

    • Select the OR operator to return results that meet either the search terms or the entered constraints (see Step 3).

  3. Click Show/hide constraints form to add more constraints.

    A further constraint options window will appear:


  4. Select the constraint operator(AND/OR).

  5. Add the required constraints using one of the following methods:

  6. Click Add to add any/all activated constraints.

    The constraints will be converted to an SQL query and displayed in the search form:

    Remove unnecessary constraints with the trash can icon.

  7. Click Search to launch the search. Results will be displayed in the Search Results tab.

  8. Click Save and put a name for this search configuration if you want to save it to use at another time.

eXo Content provides a newsletter service aimed at helping users quickly get updated news from a website.

eXo Content allows administrators to easily and quickly manage newsletters. Go to GroupNewsletters on the administration bar to access the Newsletters functionality.

Administrators can manage the categories that newsletters are distributed under.

An administrator can add more subscriptions to any category. There are two ways to do this:

Follow the same steps as Method One.

Administrators can create newsletters for each subscription.

These Newsletters can be opened, edited, deleted or converted to a template for reuse.


Each subscription consists of many newsletters. eXo Content helps you easily create newsletters by following these steps.

Procedure 4.107. Creating Newsletters

  1. Go to GroupNewsletters on the administration bar. The Newsletter portlet appears.

  2. Click the New Letter button on the action bar. The Newsletter entry form appears:

    Details:


  3. Click the scroll arrows icon to select the template for the newsletter.

  4. Click the Send Date field. The calendar will appear to allow you to choose the date and time when you want to send the newsletter.

  5. Click the scroll arrows icon in the category field to select the category and the subscription in list.

  6. Click the Update sending parameters button to update information about this newsletter. A message pops up and informs you that you have updated information successfully.

  7. Input a title for the newsletter into the Title field.

  8. Create a content for a newsletter by inputting information into the Main content text box.

  9. Click Save to save this newsletter as a draft or click Send to send this newsletter.

  10. Select Contact Us on the navigation bar or go to SiteAcmeContact Us.

    The Contact Us page appears:


  11. Select a recipient and enter values in this form.

  12. Click Save to save a message.

The Fast Content Creator portlet in eXo Content allows you to quickly create and save a new document with only one template in a specific location without having to access Content Explorer. This can dramatically expedite the creation of a single new document.

There are two modes in Fast Content Creator: Basic Content Creator and Standard Content Creator.

The Standard Content Creator mode adds an Actions section to the Edit Mode tab (see the details at Section 4.12.1, “Configuration”) which allows you to add an action to your document when configuring it.

To add an action to a document, click Add or the plus icon to open the Add action form. Follow the procedure in Section 4.7.4.10.1, “Add an action”.

In eXo Content, the Fast Content Creator is applied in the Contact Us portlet with the Basic Content Creator mode by default. You can configure the Fast Content Creator by editing the Contact Us portlet.

To configure the Fast Content Creator, do the following:

  1. Go to Contact Us on the Navigation bar or go to SiteAcmeContact Us

  2. Click Site EditorEdit Page on the administration bar. The Page Editor will be displayed.

  3. Hover the mouse pointer over the Contact Us portlet and the toolbar appears.

    Click the pencil icon to edit the portlet.

    The form with the Edit Mode tab appears:


  4. Select the location to save:

    1. Click the magnifying glass icon to select a specific location to save documents. The Select Location form appears:

    2. Select the parent node on the left panel and click the green tick icon in the Action column to choose the child node on the right panel. After being selected, this location will be displayed on the Location to save field. Created documents will be saved in this location.

  5. Select a template which is used to create a new document.

  6. Change the label for the Custom save button, and the content for the Custom save message.

  7. Tick the Redirect checkbox if you want to redirect to the path in the Redirect path field after clicking OK in the save message.

  8. Click Save to finish the configuration of the Fast Content Creator portlet.

  9. Click OK in the confirmation message.

  10. Click Close to quit the form.

The Form Builder portlet enables users to create and to edit various document type templates. Documents are stored in a node; therefore, the term node and node types are often applied.

The Category Navigation Portlet and Parameterized Content List Viewer portlets avoid the need for long URLs when viewing a content and enable users to see published documents or web contents in specific categories in one page.

Using symbolic links, the database can retrieve the content no matter where the object physically resides. The relations between shortcuts can also be managed in this way.

The Edit Mode of the Category Navigation Portlet

Administrators can edit the Category Navigation portlet with the following procedure:

You can easily manage all the site resources in Content Explorer.

Chose Sites Management in a General drive. All of your created sites and their resources will be listed in the left panel.

All sites contain typical folders that are site resources:

This page is used to manage all workspaces, drives, node types, metadata, templates, queries, etc. Only administrators can access the Administration page.

This page gives you to access to the following sub-pages:

The Manage Tags form allows you to manage tag styles (the appearance of tags in visual representations). A tag's style changes depending on the number of documents with that tag.

Go to GroupAdministration then click on Categories and TagsManage Tags.

From this page you can add new tags styles or edit existing styles.

  1. Click the Add Taxonomy Tree button to add a new taxonomy. The Add taxonomy tree form will appear.

  2. Enter a name for the tree in the Name field. The asterix (*) denotes this as a required field.

  3. Select the workspace you want to work with.

  4. Select the home path by clicking the plus icon. The Select Home Path form will appear:

  5. Click the tick icon if you want to select the root path or click the arrow icon to go to the up level path. Click the plus sign to expand the folder.

  6. Click the tick icon corresponding to the path that you want to select as a home path.

    Click Reset if you want to reset values that have just been selected or Next to select permissions for a taxonomy tree.

  7. Click the Select user icon to select a user, the Select memberships icon to select memberships or the Select everyone icon to select everyone in order to set permissions. The user or membership that you have selected will be displayed in the User or Group field.

    Then, check at least one of the options below to set rights for the selected user to membership:

    Read Right

    The option is to select the Read right or not.

    Add Note Right

    The option is to select the Add Node right or not.

    Set Property Right

    The option is to select the Set Property right or not.

    Remove Right

    The option is to select the Remove right or not.

  8. Click Save to save all values, or Reset to change values that have just been set.

  9. After clicking Save, click Next to go to the next step.

  10. Enter the name for an action of the taxonomy tree in the Name field. This is a required (*) value.

  11. Select values for Life-cycle, NodeTypes, Target workspace, Target path, Affected Node Types. These fields are required (*).

  12. Click Save to save all values and click Next to go to the next step.

When creating a node in eXo Content, you must set its properties. Therefore, each node needs to have a form to enter data for their properties (called the dialog template), and display the existing values (called the view template).

The Template Management system allows users to view, delete or modify the predefined templates or to add a new template.

Procedure 5.7. Edit a Template

  1. Go to GroupAdministration then click on Content PresentationManage Templates.

  2. Click the pencil icon in the Action column corresponding to the template you want to edit.

  3. In the Template tab, you can edit the Label of the Template.

  4. To add a dialog, do the following:

    1. Enter content for this dialog in the Content field.

    2. Enter a name for this dialog. This value is required (*).

    3. Select permissions for a group that can use this dialog. This value is required (*).

  5. To edit an existing dialog, do the following:

    1. Click the pencil icon in the dialog row you want to edit.

    2. Edit the dialog properties.

    3. Click Save to accept all changes in the Dialog tab.

  6. To delete an existing dialog, do the following:

    1. Click the trash can icon in the dialog row you want to edit.

    2. Click OK to continue with deletion.

    Note

    You cannot delete the default dialog. You must create a new one before you can delete the current default dialog.

  7. To add a view, do the following:

    1. Click the View tab and enter content into the content field.

    2. Enter a name for this view. This field is required (*).

    3. Select permissions for a group that can use this view. This field is required (*).

  8. To edit an existing view, do the following:

    1. Click the pencil icon in the view row you want to edit.

    2. Edit the view properties.

    3. Click Save to accept all changes in the View tab.

    Notes about Editing Views

    You cannot change the view name.

    If you click Enable Version checkbox, this view automatically increments one version after you click Save. It is displayed at version column in the View tab.

    If the dialog has at least two versions, in the View tab, it displays the Restore button. You can use Restore to roll back to the previous View.

  9. To delete an existing dialog, do the following:

    1. Click the trash can icon in the dialog row you want to edit.

    2. Click OK to continue with deletion.

    3. Click Save to accept all changes.

The Manage Views function is used to control view ways of a user. It has three tabs: View, ECM Templates and BC Templates tabs.

To open the Manage View function, go to GroupAdministration then click on Content PresentationManage View. The Manage View form opens.

Views Tab

On the Views tab you can add, edit, delete or preview views.

The function supports to manage drives in the File Explorer. It allows adding, editing and deleting drives.

Go to GroupAdministration the go to Content PresentationManage Drives.

This function enables you to manage queries. It allows adding, editing and deleting queries.

Go to AdministrationAdvanced ConfigurationManage Queries.

The function enables users to manage all script codes in the ECM and Browser Content system.

Go to GroupAdministration then go to Advanced ConfigurationManage Scripts.


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