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Working with CoreMedia.Practice.

• Training for T-Systems Internet editors.

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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.

• Contents
• Top Story Editing standard text and images
• Content Teaser Adding related content
• Division page Creating a topic overview
• Quickfinder How to configure a special
  navigation feature
• Projects Explorative team work
• Publication
• Deleting withdrawing documents
• Query
• Quickpoll

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Top Story.
Top Story Editing standard text and images.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Top Story.

• Top Story
• Log-on to CoreMedia editor
• Create top story from template
• Edit text
• Indexing for search engine
• Add image
• Different types of layout

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Top Story.
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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.
Navigation folder hierarchy
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Naming
convention.

• Home page/ division page
• Content Teaser Appetizer2-st, Appetizer3-st,

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Naming
convention.

• Documents in archives
• date_name-extension
• Top Stories
• 2005-11-27_name of top story-mt
• Press Center
• 2005-11-27_PL_name of press release-mt
• Press kit
• Folder 2005-11-27_name of press kit

• The archive will automatically display documents
  (e.g. Main Texts) placed in the folder Archive
  gt -content
• Additional documents pertaining to archived
  documents such as images, links and downloads are
  to be placed in subfolders named according to the
  archived document Archive gt -content gt
  2005-11-27_name-of-top-story

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Naming
convention.

• Detail pages
• 1-name of navigation itemextension
• Main Text
• 1-name of navigation item -mt
• Short Text
• name of navigation item -st
• Image
• name of navigation item-im
• Link List
• name of navigation item-ll

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Naming
convention.

• Naming documents
• Flash
• name of navigation item-mo
• Page (static)
• name of navigation item-ps

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Content Teaser.
Content Teaser Adding related content.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Content Teaser.

• Content Teaser
• Add Next Step form to Top Story
• Create Related Links box
• Add introduction
• Creating internal external links and downloads
• Adjust link names link description
• Add image

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Content Teaser.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Division Page.
Document hierarchy
Main text (Top Story)
Container (Content)
Image
Short Text
Link
Link
Link
Page (External)
Page (Static)
Internal document e.g. Main Text
Teaser image Introduction External link
Download Internal Link
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Content Teaser.

• Which documents in which folders
• -content
• Main Text -mt
• Short Text -st
• Image -im
• Link -lo
• Page (external) -pe
• Page (static) -ps
• Media Object -mo

• -layout
• Container (content) -cc
• Grid -gr
• Link List -ll
• Page (internal) -pi
• -config
• Language Master -lm
• Layout (enviroment) -le
• Navigation Item -ni

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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.
Division page Creating a topic overview.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Division Page.

• Division Page
• Create new division page using a template
• Document hierarchy of a complex page
• Add appetizer content
• Add header visual
• Create Quicklinks box

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Division Page.
Divison page
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Division Page.
Document hierarchy
is the drawer which collects everything.
Navigation item
Page (internal)
divides the page into compartments .
Grid
gives the content colour and form.
Container (content)
Main text
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Division Page.
Division page
Navigation item
Page (internal)
Type Division page
Type 1 column
Grid
column 1
column 2
Container (content)
Container (content)
Container (content)
Type Banner
Type Appetizer
Type QuicklinksBox
Link
Main text
Main text
Main text
Main text
Main text
Image
Header (visual) Appetizer Quicklinks
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Division Page.

• Keep in mind
• Grid of a division page Fields labelled column
  actually indicate rows
• Choose the right type of container (content)
  depending of the type of content
• Appetizer images Add them to the short teaser
  tab of the main texts

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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.
Quickfinder A special navigation feature.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Quickfinder.

• Quickfinder
• Quickfinder on Home The structure
• Create Control document
• Link Control document to existing Main text

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Quickfinder.
Quickfinder
structure
Root control document
Solutions -cd
Industries -cd
Special services -cd
Special services
special services
Ship building -cd
Ship building

Sailing boats -cd
ship building
Sailing boats
-cd
Main text (target)
Page (internal)

Folder
Structure Selection text
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Exercise
projects.
Exercise projects Explorative team work
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Exercise
projects.

• Exercise projects
• Career page
• Press release
• Press kit
• Press photo page
• Complex layout page
• Optional topics
• Tooltips audiovisual media
• Glossary
• Knowledge box
• Management page

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Publication.
Publication Putting content live.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Publication.

• Publication
• Preview server and live server.
• Publishing documents.

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Publication.

A large number of editors
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Publication.

• Keep in mind
• Publish the whole at a timeWhen publishing a
  document all connected documents must be
  published along with it!(Complete references)
• Publish, delete, publish again Published
  documents need to be re-published when they have
  been deleted or revoked! Delete/withdraw
  make changes!

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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.
Deleting withdrawing Different ways of
undoing.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Deleting
withdrawing.

• Deleting withdrawing
• 2 ways of undoing
• Remember Remove links before deleting.

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Deleting
withdrawing.

• Deleting documents
• Documents are eliminated on both live and preview
  server.
• They are transferred into the trash bin where
  they are preserved for a limited period of time.
• Withdrawing documents
• means unpublishing documents.
• Documents are eliminated on the live server only.

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Deleting
withdrawing.

• Deleting published documents
• Before deleting/withdrawing a published
  documentRemove all links to and from the
  document.
• Mark document for deletion/withdrawal.
• Republish the document.
• Publish, delete, publish again.

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Deleting
withdrawing.

• Keep in mind
• Before deleting a document All links to and
  from the document must be removed!
• This is even more true for entire folders
  (pages).

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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.
Query Looking for documents more.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Query.

• Query
• What the query is good for
• Use query window
• Add search criteria

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Query.

• Examples from daily workCMS query What is it
  good for?
• Find all documents yet to be published within my
  section.
• Find all documents checked out within my section.
• Find a specific document in the trash bin because
  I still can use it.
• Find a specific document based on its ID.

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Query.

• Use of search criteria
• Task Find all documents yet to be published
  within my section.
• Search criteria
• Document
• Most recent version
• Path is below my folder section
• Published equals wrong

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Query.

• Use of search criteria
• Task Find all documents checked out within my
  section.
• Search criteria
• Document
• Most recent version
• Path is below my folder section
• Checked out equals true

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Query.

• Use of search criteria
• Task Find a specific document in the trash bin
  because I still can use it.
• Search criteria
• Document
• Most recent version
• Last folder my folder
• In stock or trash check trash

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Query.

• Use of search criteria
• Task Find a specific document based on its ID.
• Search criteria
• Document
• Most recent version
• ID equals my ID
• Identify the ID of a web page by analyzing its
  URL. In the following example the ID is
  highlighted http//q4de8psa585e001.blf.telekom.de
  50081/tsi/en/94142/Home

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Working with CoreMedia.Training for T-Systems
Internet editors.
Quickpoll An online voting feature.
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Quickpoll.

• Quickpoll
• What is quickpoll
• How to build it and where to get what you need

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Quickpoll.

• What is quick poll?
• Example http//q4de8psa586e001.blf.telekom.de510
  81/tsi/de/206/Startseite/Aufbau20der20Seite/Cont
  entTeaser/MainText-02

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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Quickpoll.

• What do I need to build a quick poll?
• Integrate it into existing detail page as a
  Content Teaser
• Build structure as depicted below
• Adjust HTML text (Static Fragement) depending on
  which kind of poll you want to use Example
  categoryAutomotive
• Categories will provided by the PSM W agency
  Contact michael.schwalm_at_psmw-newmedia.de

Main text
Contains HTML text generating quick poll function
Container (Content)
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Static Fragment
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Working with CoreMedia.Practice Blogs,
quicklinks etc.

• Address requests to
• Example http//q4de8psa586e001.blf.telekom.de510
  81/tsi/de/206/Startseite/Aufbau20der20Seite/Cont
  entTeaser/MainText-02