Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Aspects / Indexable

Indexable QName: f:indexable Informs a node of how it should be indexed. Cloud CMS maintains multiple indexes including a search index, a database index and special indexes for things like path-based retrieval. By default, all n:node instances have the f:indexable feature applied to them. The default behavior is for search to be enabled and for search-indexes to be updated synchronously upon a write. Nodes that are indexed for search will take a little extra time on write (create or update) sinc

How does Cloud CMS compare to DIY (do-it-yourself)?

Not sure whether to build or buy? Review these points to help guide your selection. Why DIY: exact fit with your technology stack use existing in-house skills and resources build only the features you need able to add new features as required use existing developers for support cost / budget - internal no need for external services to deliver and support product can be a ‘skunk works’ project Why not DIY: Risk (more complex than it looks) time/effort/cost are all easy to under-estimate CMS requi

Comparison: Cloud CMS vs DIY

Not sure whether to build or buy? Review these points to help guide your selection. Why DIY: exact fit with your technology stack use existing in-house skills and resources build only the features you need able to add new features as required use existing developers for support cost / budget - internal no need for external services to deliver and support product can be a ‘skunk works’ project Why not DIY: Risk (more complex than it looks) time/effort/cost are all easy to under-estimate CMS requi

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / User Interface / Dashboard

Dashboard You can customize dashboard in Platform and Project. Find the "Config Dashboard" button at the top right area of the platform/project home page, and you will be able to customize dashboards for different pages. In this example, we will customize the dashboard for Platform. In the following screenshot, there are 5 dashlets (My Projects, My Favorites, My Recent Edits, My Tasks, and Recent Activities). We can Change the layout Add/remove a dashlet Configure each dashlet Lock configuration

Gitana / 4.0 / User Interface / User Interface / Dashboard

Dashboard You can customize dashboard in Platform and Project. Find the "Config Dashboard" button at the top right area of the platform/project home page, and you will be able to customize dashboards for different pages. In this example, we will customize the dashboard for Platform. In the following screenshot, there are 5 dashlets (My Projects, My Favorites, My Recent Edits, My Tasks, and Recent Activities). We can Change the layout Add/remove a dashlet Configure each dashlet Lock configuration

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Features / Inline Links

Inline Links QName: f:inline-links Adds support for automatic text parsing and discovery and tracking of linked references within text-based markup (referred to here as "inline links"). When this feature is present on a node, any persistence operations (such as create or update) will run some additional logic over your text fields. If text is discovered, it is potentially parsed and the discovered contents of the text are inspected for inline links. If your text fields contain HTML, the HTML is

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Aspects / Inline Links

Inline Links QName: f:inline-links Adds support for automatic text parsing and discovery and tracking of linked references within text-based markup (referred to here as "inline links"). When this feature is present on a node, any persistence operations (such as create or update) will run some additional logic over your text fields. If text is discovered, it is potentially parsed and the discovered contents of the text are inspected for inline links. If your text fields contain HTML, the HTML is

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Content Modeling / Relator Properties

Relator Properties Cloud CMS provides support for properties that auto-manage their relationships between multiple nodes in the content graph. Whenever you intend to connect two nodes together, it is often convenient to model a property on one or both of the nodes involved in the relationship such that the properties maintain information locally on the endpoints about the relationship. Such properties are known as "relator properties". Consider a Store that sells Books. Books are written by Auth

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Content Models / Relator Properties

Relator Properties Cloud CMS provides support for properties that auto-manage their relationships between multiple nodes in the content graph. Whenever you intend to connect two nodes together, it is often convenient to model a property on one or both of the nodes involved in the relationship such that the properties maintain information locally on the endpoints about the relationship. Such properties are known as "relator properties". Consider a Store that sells Books. Books are written by Auth

Easy Forms with Cloud CMS

One of the many uses of Cloud CMS is as a storage and reporting mechanism for forms. If you’re looking to put a form up onto your web or mobile site, Cloud CMS serves as an excellent option for capturing and storing this information. Fundamentally, Cloud CMS provides the Alpaca forms engine. Alpaca is an open-source JavaScript library for jQuery. It makes it easy to design and insert forms into your sites. Cloud CMS built Alpaca and been working with the broader community to improve it and make

Introducing Workflow

One of the main themes of Cloud CMS is the ability to help you automate the recurring actions that make up your team’s daily work. Giving you the flexibility to define how your teams collaborate – so that the organization of work is easy and fluid – is what Cloud CMS is all about. A workflow is a blueprint that defines how your teams work together. It defines a series of steps and spells out who does what and in what order. It also describes a sequence of activities on top of your content, letti

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Content Modeling / Definitions

Definitions A content definition is a JSON schema v4 document that informs Cloud CMS of a new content type. The JSON schema semantics spell out the exact properties that a content type should have, the types of every element (such as whether a property is a string or a number), constraints and other nested aspects of the content type. Definitions come in several flavors, the main ones being: Content Type Definitions Association Definitions Feature Definitions Cloud CMS lets you create adhoc cont

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Content Models / Definitions

Definitions A content definition is a JSON schema v4 document that informs Cloud CMS of a new content type. The JSON schema semantics spell out the exact properties that a content type should have, the types of every element (such as whether a property is a string or a number), constraints and other nested aspects of the content type. Definitions come in several flavors, the main ones being: Content Type Definitions Association Definitions Feature Definitions Cloud CMS lets you create adhoc cont

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / API / Data Types / Node

Node Type {{#dataTypeArticle objectTypeId}}{{objectTypeId}}{{/dataTypeArticle}} Datastore Type {{#dataTypeArticle datastoreTypeId}}{{datastoreTypeId}}{{/dataTypeArticle}} Supports {{#article "security/authorities"}}authorities{{/article}}, {{#article "security/permissions"}}permissions{{/article}}, {{#article "transfer"}}transfer{{/article}} Configuration The node configuration contains system and custom properties. You can write your own properties as you see fit. However, system properties sho

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / API / Data Types / Node

Node Type {{#dataTypeArticle objectTypeId}}{{objectTypeId}}{{/dataTypeArticle}} Datastore Type {{#dataTypeArticle datastoreTypeId}}{{datastoreTypeId}}{{/dataTypeArticle}} Supports {{#article "security/authorities"}}authorities{{/article}}, {{#article "security/permissions"}}permissions{{/article}}, {{#article "transfer"}}transfer{{/article}} Configuration The node configuration contains system and custom properties. You can write your own properties as you see fit. However, system properties sho

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / General / Locking

Locking Cloud CMS supports locking of nodes (or content instances). Locking allows content editorial team members to explicitly block other editors from working on content that they're already working on. When a piece of content is locked by a user, all other users in the project who have access to the piece of content will be prohibited from making modifications. They will be able to read the content but they will not be able to save any modifications. Once the lock is released by the user who

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Nodes / Locking

Locking Cloud CMS supports locking of nodes (or content instances). Locking allows content editorial team members to explicitly block other editors from working on content that they're already working on. When a piece of content is locked by a user, all other users in the project who have access to the piece of content will be prohibited from making modifications. They will be able to read the content but they will not be able to save any modifications. Once the lock is released by the user who

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / UI Developers Guide / Templates / List Items

List Items List Items exist in multiple places in CloudCMS UI. They consist of an icon on the left and some detailed descriptions on the right. Below is an example of some list items configured with the default template. You can customize the description on the right using Templates. The Default Template

{{title data}}

Gitana / 4.0 / Developers / User Interface Customization / Templates / List Items

List Items List Items exist in multiple places in CloudCMS UI. They consist of an icon on the left and some detailed descriptions on the right. Below is an example of some list items configured with the default template. You can customize the description on the right using Templates. The Default Template

{{title data}}

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Features / Stats Sum Counter

Stats Sum Counter QName: f:stats-sum-counter Applied to an association to indicate that a statistics counter from one of end of the association should be aggregated up into another counter on the other end of the association. This feature builds on the existing Node Statistics capabilities of Cloud CMS by letting you define custom sum counters from one end of an association to be applied to the other end. Statistics counters are accumulated once on create and decremented once on delete. Configur

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Aspects / Stats Sum Counter

Stats Sum Counter QName: f:stats-sum-counter Applied to an association to indicate that a statistics counter from one of end of the association should be aggregated up into another counter on the other end of the association. This feature builds on the existing Node Statistics capabilities of Cloud CMS by letting you define custom sum counters from one end of an association to be applied to the other end. Statistics counters are accumulated once on create and decremented once on delete. Configur

How do I retrieve the folder path for my content?

In Cloud CMS, you may choose to associate nodes with folders. This allows the content to be worked with by editorial teams such that they can navigate to content within folders, move content between folders and generally organize their content as they wish. It also allows for content to be retrieved by path via the API, if you wish. Technically speaking, Cloud CMS does not require folders or paths. In fact, plenty of customers use Cloud CMS in such a way that they don't require folders at all. C

Create Once, Publish Everywhere!

One of the things that our customers love about Cloud CMS is that it lets them create content once and easily publish it to all of their mobile and web applications. It reduces the amount of work required to create fresh and interesting content and saves them time and money in the process. Our goal is straightforward. We want to provide all of the things that small business owners need on the backend to give their users a seamless experience in creating, editing and publishing content. With Clou

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Cookbooks / REST API Cookbook

REST API Cookbook Getting Started This guide assumes that you have already installed an HTTP client with which you will be making requests. However, it is highly recommended that you look at our language drivers and you read about the one that you will be using in your application. Connecting to Cloud CMS CloudCMS uses OAuth2 to perform authentication, and as such to connect you will have to perform the authentication handshake manually to connect directly with the rest api. The specifics of thi

Gitana / 4.0 / Developers / Cookbooks / REST API Cookbook

REST API Cookbook Getting Started This guide assumes that you have already installed an HTTP client with which you will be making requests. However, it is highly recommended that you look at our language drivers and you read about the one that you will be using in your application. Connecting to Gitana Gitana uses OAuth2 to perform authentication, and as such to connect you will have to perform the authentication handshake manually to connect directly with the rest api. The specifics of this dif