CD Web XMS Training

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CD Web XMS Training

• How to use the Xeno Media web site content
  management system

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Course Outline

• Content Management Basics
• XMS Core Concepts
• Edit An Existing Page
• File Management
• Display Components
• Create A New Page
• Move/Relocate A Page
• Clone A Page

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Content Management Basics

• Difference from file based web site
• Page content is stored in PostgreSQL database
• Components of web page are individual database
  items and are therefore easier to replicate and
  relocate and in general manage
• This system includes tools to easily create and
  edit pages without having to be an expert in html
  or purchase tools like Dreamweaver

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Documentation

• CD Users Manual http//cd-docdb.fnal.gov/cgi-bin/
  ShowDocument?docid2731

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XMS Core Concepts

• Authentication via KCA
• Permission based on groups
• Each page assigned to a group
• Each user assigned to a group
• Current groups based on CD organization
  Quadrants cdo, ilc, scp, scf, lsc

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XMS Core Concepts

• Page with unique pid
• Display Components with unique cid
• Uploaders for images, PDF files and other files
• Inline editing

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Edit an Existing Page

• Training login URL https//cdint.fnal.gov/xms/se
  cure_login
• Editing tools are displayed when
• You are logged in
• You are on a page you have permission to edit
• Clicking on your name toggles inline editing
  on/off

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Exercise Edit a plain HTML page

• Insert a heading
• Insert a hyper link
• Insert a table
• Insert an anchor
• Restore to a previous version

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File Management

• If content is not part of the page, (i.e., image
  files, pdfs, excel sheets, etc.) it is not loaded
  into the PostgreSQL database
• These files are uploaded separately into the
  BlueArc file system and referenced from this
  location
• Use the uploader tool on the left while you are
  in edit mode to do this

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Exercise Upload a file

• Upload an image and a PDF file to your folder
• Find the URL of your uploaded file
• Insert an image on your page
• Insert a PDF link on your page

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Display Components (DCs)

• A page is made up of smaller parts that are each
  given a unique component identification number,
  or cid.
• cidcomponent identification number
• pidpage identification number
• XMS provides you with a suite of DC templates you
  can use to customize your pages
• Most pages start with the Plain HTML DC

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Display Components (DCs)

• Display component types
• Plain HTML
• Most pages, provides wysiwyg editor
• Whats New news items
• Plain HTML you specify a title, e.g.
  http//cdint.fnal.gov/xms/?pid1000009
• Top-bottom table container
• Add more than one DC to a container,
  consecutively, going down the page, e.g.
  http//cdint.fnal.gov/xms/?pid1000243
• Tab container / Tab container child
• Add more than one DC to a container, each one as
  a separate tab, e.g. http//cdint.fnal.gov/xms/?pi
  d1000243
• Index Page
• Takes all children marked visible, e.g.
  http//cdint.fnal.gov/xms/?pid1000482
• Literal text
• Same as HTML w/o wysiwyg editor, e.g.
  http//cdint.fnal.gov/xms/?pid1000281

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Editing Areas

• 4 editing areas
• Left menu
• for division-standard Quick Links
• Main content area
• Sidebar
• for instructions, news, on this page content,
  etc.
• Right menu - not recommended

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Exercises

• Add a sidebar
• Add Whats New news item as the DC
• Enter some content in the DC

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Creating a New Page

• Accomplished via the Page Editor, click
• Create Page sibling/child

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Exercise Create a new page

• Define general properties of a page
• Menu Name
• Friendly URL name optional name replaces pid in
  the URL field uses Menu Name by default
• Page Title
• Description optional
• Keyword optional
• Visible show the page in the left side fly-out
  menus (if parent is visible)
• Online check it
• RMInherit not used
• Auth always choose Public
• Editing Auth always put in your respective
  quadrant
• Status optional

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Exercise Create a new page (cont.)

• Reuse a DC defined in the previous exercise
• Remove a DC

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Move/Relocate a page

• Relocating Changing web pages location in the
  web site hierarchy
• Since pages are not stored in a file system, this
  cannot be done with standard file manipulation
  commands (i.e., copy, move)
• The page location determines the path in the
  URLhttp//computing.fnal.gov/xms/Services/Gettin
  g_Services/OSes/MS_Windows
• Use the page relocator tool to move or re-order
  pages This Page edit/move

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Exercise Move/Relocate

• Relocate a page in the previous exercise as a
  child of another page
• Relocate a page in the previous exercise as the
  next sibling of another page

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Clone A Page

• Enables you to replicate a page that already
  exists
• Cloned page is given a new PID
• To find your new page, see My Pages view
• Copy is labeled Copy of original page name
• Useful if you want all your pages to have the
  same format
• Just build a template page then clone it and add
  the appropriate content

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Exercise Cloning

• Clone a page you have created
• Modify the page properties of the cloned page
• Put in new content onto the cloned page