Content Manager features and item types
Implement Content Manager features, using Content Manager item types, so that end users can create, assemble, and publish content.
The following diagram shows the core features of Content Manager that you can create using the various Content Manager clients:
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- Publications
- Implementing the legacy templating framework (legacy feature)
- Workflow
- Bundles
- Schemas
- Metadata Schemas
- Taxonomies
- Folders
- Structure Groups
- Defining internal taxonomies with Keywords
- Creating a Business Process Type
- Managing Content Manager user groups
- Rights, Permissions and Privileges for Users and Groups
- Implementing Content Manager
- Content Delivery
- Content Manager clients
- Content Manager APIs
The following are the basics of Content Manager features and item types:
- Organizational items
- Publications are the main organizational unit in Content Manager. Publications group content and layout. You organize Publications in a BluePrint hierarchy in which Child Publications share content and organizational items from Parent Publications. In a Publication, Folders organize content (the Building Blocks of a website), Structure Groups organize Pages (web content), and Categories and Keywords define taxonomies.
- Content Manager items
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Implementing the Content Manager requires you to design and create the following Content Manager items so that end users can create, assemble, and publish content:
- Schemas to define the structure of content
- Metadata Schemas to define content metadata
- Categories and Keywords to create taxonomies (hierarchies of Keywords) which are used to classify content (list values in Components and metadata).
- Page Templates and Component Templates that are used in template-based publishing (a legacy feature) to turn content that is created and managed in the Content Manager into publishable content. The replacement of template-based publishing, data publishing, does not use templates.
- Publishing
- Implementing publishing in the Content Manager involves associating Publications with Business Process Types, which contain one or more Target Types. Each Target Type represents a logical target in Topology Manager.
- User management
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- Users—Add users to give them access to Content Manager. How users get added depends on the installation and configuration choices. With a default installation, you can add users from your existing Windows Domain (Active Directory). When Access Management is installed and configured with an external identity provider (Id), users get automatically provisioned and added to Content Manager when they log in for the first time. In this case, the actual user accounts are maintained by the external IdP. It is also possible to have SAML, LDAP, or another SSO provider directly configured, that is, without Content Manager; however, these authentication setups are deprecated as of the 9.5 release.
- User Groups—you can use groups to create general categories of users who need to perform similar tasks and then grant users and groups access to specific Publications.
- User and Group rights and permissions give users access to the items and actions they need to perform:
- Rights—allow the user to work with specific types of content.
- Permissions—affect the contents of a Folder, Structure Group or Category: you set permissions on these items to allow users to perform specific actions on items contained, provided they have the necessary rights.
- Workflow
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Workflow ensures that tasks on a content item follow a specific flow of activities. Define Workflow Processes in Visio Workflow Designer and apply them to the creation and use of Components, Templates, and Pages.