IBM Web Content Manager 8.0 Training Overview
- Overview of Web Content Manager
- Templates, components, items, and WCM search
- WCM Content Tags
- Pages, portlets, and page templates
- Content acquisition
- Adding navigational components to your website
- Adding rule-based content
- Custom authoring features
- Working with drafts, workflows, and projects
- Item management
- User access and security
Web Content Manager API
- API overview of workspace, rendering context,
manage content, search content
- Cache considerations
Unit 2: REST services for Web
Content Manager
- Overview of the REST services capability
- Service entry points
- Access levels
- Query service and parameters
- Using REST services to create, delete, or update
web content items
Unit 3: Extending the authoring
environment
- APIs for authoring environment
- Look and feel options
- Plug-in options (file upload class, text
provider class)
- Unit 4: Extending change management
with custom workflows
- Custom workflow overview
Unit 5: Overview of the presentation
layer
- Overview of navigators, menus, site areas
- Information architecture and implementation
- How they are related
- When to use which one
- Overview of portal page structure (extension of
site framework
- How is can be used to dynamically generate
navigation
Unit 6: Enhanced rendering
- Overview of options
- Custom launch pages
- Enhanced menu components
- Dynamic content based on the content ID
- Rendering plug-in
Unit 7: Enhancing the look and feel
- Presentation template overview of the different
ways to change style
- Theme customization (portal)
- Combined Portal and WCM navigation (generated
integrated breadcrumbs)
- Cascading CSS (content, components, presentation
templates)
- Inline HTML style (content, components,
presentation templates)
Unit 8: Personalization
- Overview of when to use personalization and
profiling
- Performance considerations for personalization
- Best practices for personalization
Unit 9: Integrating content with IBM
Web Content Integrator
- Overview of IBM Web Content Integrator (concept
of producer and consumer)
- Feed format
- Issues with embedded links in feeds
Unit 10: Integrating ECM using
federated documents
- Overview of how WCM retrieves content from ECM
servers (federated documents)
- Overview of integration
- Security considerations (SSO with WebSphere
Application Server)
Unit 11: Security
- Review roles (user, contributor, editor,
manager, administrator, delegator, privileged user)
- Review predefines groups (anonymous,
authenticated, users and user groups, all user groups)
- Explain relationship between WebSphere Portal
and Web Content Manager Security
- Review interface for assigning access levels
- Considerations for security in applications
Unit 12: Working with libraries
- Review Library options, such as setting up a
common library for shared images
- Discuss when multiple libraries are beneficial
(such as library for each company division)
- Review library performance consideration
- Review library techniques such as creating
labels, restoring content based on labels, and disabling versus deleting a
library
Unit 13: Search
- Review Search options: out-of-the-box search, Omni
find, third-party search (such as Google)
- Benefits and limitations of each option
- Architecture of each option
- Integrating with custom fields
- Exporting and importing library