Rudimentary Web Content Management (WCM)
Hi,
I require to get some rudimentary WCM running (under 5.1 - I could be
persuaded to use 5.2, but cannot get the TIP to deploy, see my other
posts). I haven't come across any functionality to provide WCM directly
(have I missed something?) and so was thinking how could I get something
simple working in the short-term.
I was thinking, could I use a Note Document Type to create the main content
for a page, and then publish that to a section. A section could then have a
Theme with a Wiew/Widget to display the Note of the Note only
(un-escaped).[This theme would probably have the usual header bar with logo
and User Services with the Note Widget below, but different Theme Pages
would require additional Views]
This would almost work. The issue would be:
You can only define a Theme on a Folder (not a document) in a Section,
which would cause problems for rendering the Folder itself, and would mean
all published Note documents within a Folder would use the same Theme (you
may want different Pages from a Theme for different Note documents).
In my mind, a 'nice' solution would be to define the Theme/Page for a Note
(more explicitly a new DocumentType extending Note) that would be used for
rendering once published. Is this possible? How would I go about doing
that?
On top of all this, there is the question of friendly readable URLs - could
that be achieved with the REST API code?
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