A Plone Teaser

Content Management Systems

(Wikipedia)

• A content management system (CMS) is a computer application used to create, edit, manage, and publish content in a consistently organized fashion.
• CMSs are frequently used for storing, controlling, versioning, and publishing industry-specific documentation such as news articles, operators' manuals, technical manuals, sales guides, and marketing brochures.
• The content managed may include computer files, image media, audio files, video files, electronic documents, and Web content.

Available CMS

• Drupal
• Joomla!
• Typo3
• TikiWiki
• Plone

Sites that use Plone

• http://plone.mat.univie.ac.at/

• http://www.hu-berlin.de/
• http://www.fcc.chalmers.se/
• http://www.jyu.fi/
• http://www.amnesty.ch/en
• http://www.brasil.gov.br/
• http://www.smeal.psu.edu/
• http://portal.risc.jku.at

Database

• For the user, Plone data is organised in a directory structure
• But, all data lives in an object-oriented database
• Find your data through Plone's search facility

Different content types

• folders
• web pages
• files/images
• news items
• events
• collections

Permissions

• users, groups, roles
• more fine-grained than Unix model

States/Workflow

• Each content type can live in different states
• Workflow decides who can do what in a given state
• One can assign different workflows to a content type

History/Versioning

• pages are versioned by default
• can see differences to previous version

How to get a Login?

• One week of registration phase. (Click "Register".)
• After that look at the help pages (in particular at "How to get an account").