Implementing Content Manager
Content Manager features encompass the Content Manager items you need to create and secure so that end-users can create, assemble, and publish content.
The following diagram illustrates the various Content Manager items and tools and their relationships to the major subsystems of Tridion Sites:
- Publications
Publications, the main organizational units in Content Manager, group content and layout items that represent the building blocks of a Web site. A Publication's organizational structure and security model let you create and organize content. You can create a hierarchy of Publications, a BluePrint, in which Publications share content. - Setting up Site Types for the Site Wizard
Set up the Site Wizard to enable users to create a new site quickly without having to run PowerShell scripts. In the Site Wizard, users combine one BluePrint Publication (the Site Type) with another BluePrint Publication (the Content Publication). Each Site Type maps to a web application on the presentation environment. - BluePrinting
A BluePrint is a hierarchy of Publications in which Parent Publications share content to Child Publications. Child Publications can contain: shared content from a Parent Publication, localized content, and local content. - Schemas
Schemas define the structure of content and metadata. - Metadata
Metadata is simply data that describes other data, and in content management, this means any information that helps to define or describe a particular piece of content, image or any other digital asset. This information can then be used to make the content findable and understandable either by human users or by an API. - Taxonomies
You can manage your taxonomies internally in Content Manager or externally in Taxonomy Space. With either method or both in combination, you can define a unified classification system across all of your company's content repositories. Using the taxonomies that you implement, Editors and other non-technical Content Manager users are able to select tags for both internal Keywords and external taxonomy concepts, which classifies the content according to the associated taxonomies. - Virtual Folders
A Virtual Folder is an item that can contain different types of content items located in different locations in Content Manager. - Bundles
Bundles are containers for items in different locations for collective workflow processing or other collective use. End users can work with Bundles in the Content Manager Explorer user interface, but you can also work with Bundles programmatically using the Core Service or the TOM.NET API. - Workflow
Implement Workflow to apply workflow to the creation and use of Components, Templates, and Pages. Workflow is the movement of tasks through a work process. Workflow ensures that specific individuals perform activities in a specific sequence. - Business Process Types
A Business Process Type is a collection of configuration settings describing how your organization works with its content, both before and during publishing. - Content configuration
All implementation tasks related to content configuration are server-side tasks that require you to submit a ticket to RWS Customer Support. Only adding Multimedia Types can be partially performed in Content Manager Explorer. - Device Preview
Device Preview allows you to preview and edit content in Experience Manager as it is displayed in a handheld device such as a mobile, smartphone, or tablet. - Content Manager extension points
Content Manager extension points are the APIs you can use to implement Content Manager functionality: you can use the TOM.NET API for developing templating and Event Handler and Workflow, the Content Manager Explorer extension API to add custom controls and behavior to the GUI, and the Core Service API to interact with the Content Manager from a third-party application or third-party GUI. - Best practices for Content Manager implementers for helping authors produce accessible content
You can help authors and editors produce accessible web content by observing a number of best practices when you implement Tridion Sites.