IBM Web Content Manager new features and improvements
The authoring home page
The new authoring home page provides a customized entry point for different types of users.
CMIS support for federated documents
The federated documents feature enables us to insert links to content in a remote content repository. We can now insert links to documents from repositories that support Content Management Interoperability Services 1.0 (CMIS 1.0).
Content templating enhancements
The content templating features of Web Content Manager have been expanded. Web content viewers, web content page templates, and content associations work together to provide a framework used to assemble pages containing web content. WCM includes preinstalled web content libraries with sample web content.
The WCM REST service
The new WCM REST service provides a URL interface that allows developers to create queries and to utilize this information to extend the authoring user interface.
Site area templates
Site areas are now treated as content, allowing us to take advantage of services such as workflow, versioning and metadata profiling. Site administrators can restrict what type of items can be created within different site areas, providing more granular control. We can now map site areas to presentation templates, allowing us to directly render site areas. These enhancements provide authors with the ability to create "compound" documents, with site areas acting as a parent content item containing both child site areas and content items.
New menu and navigator options
Enhancements to menu and navigator components provide new configuration options including...
- Scoping menu queries to a library
- Defining the starting point for navigators based on the page context or via a query string
This enables the reuse of the same components within different parts of the site instead of saving the same component multiple times with different queries or staring points. Additionally, navigators now support hierarchical markup making it possible to follow modern web patterns and also produce accessible page navigation.
Managed pages
v8.0 introduces support for managed pages, which are portal pages that are stored in WCM. By managing portal pages from within WCM, we can apply web content features like workflow, version control, and syndication to portal pages. This support provides a robust and integrated method for performing site management by ensuring that changes are coordinated and published together.
Benefits include...
- Any changes made to a page are made in a draft state, without affecting the live server.
- Drafts are organized within projects in WCM. When we publish draft changes to the live server, a project coordinates the updates and ensures that all drafts are published at the same time.
- Workflow ensures changes are made available on the live server only after approval. We can create customized workflows to suit the requirements of the site and authoring environment.
- A graphical toolbar integrates managed pages functions directly into the portal pages. The toolbar provides quick access to editing features, projects, and workflow actions that apply to the page. We can also easily change the scope of the changes so that we can manage the changes with projects or directly edit the published site.
- Syndication provides a convenient and flexible method for transferring managed pages from stage to production. All required page artifacts and content are transferred at the same time.
- Scripting support is available for automating managed pages tasks.
Parent: Overview