CMS editor Locking

There are two levels of locking which usually come into play in a scenario like this. One is a "UI lock" which is taken out when a user begins editing something within the user interface. This lock is released when they finished editing (either by hitting save or canceling). The other lock is a "data lock" which is a transactional lock taken out when the write of multiple documents begins. This is a transactional lock in the sense that it blocks other write operations against those documents and

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Search / Query String Reference

Query String Reference Cloud CMS lets you search for your content using either a text-based query string or a JSON block. These two methods are fairly equivalent for most typical operations. They provide two ways to express a search operation that will execute within Elastic Search. They are expressions of the Elastic Search DSL. This portion of the documentation goes into some of things you can do with the former, textual representation of an Elastic Search query string. In Cloud CMS, you can t

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Discovery / Search / Query String Reference

Query String Reference Cloud CMS lets you search for your content using either a text-based query string or a JSON block. These two methods are fairly equivalent for most typical operations. They provide two ways to express a search operation that will execute within Elastic Search. They are expressions of the Elastic Search DSL. This portion of the documentation goes into some of things you can do with the former, textual representation of an Elastic Search query string. In Cloud CMS, you can t

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / API / Data Types / Branch

Branch 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}} You can have as many branches as you want. Each branch is a completely isolated workspace. Thus, you can create your own branch for your own projects. You

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / API / Data Types / Branch

Branch 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}} You can have as many branches as you want. Each branch is a completely isolated workspace. Thus, you can create your own branch for your own projects. You

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Attachments

Attachments Cloud CMS provides support for the storage and retrieval of binary assets. These assets are stored as attachments on an object. Unlike some CMS systems which start with the binary asset, Cloud CMS considers all of your objects and content to be JSON documents. The JSON document then has N number of binary BLOBs attached to it. Each attachment has a unique name and retains information such as mimetype, filename and content length. The following kinds of objects support attachments: Co

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Nodes / Attachments

Attachments Cloud CMS provides support for the storage and retrieval of binary assets. These assets are stored as attachments on an object. Unlike some CMS systems which start with the binary asset, Cloud CMS considers all of your objects and content to be JSON documents. The JSON document then has N number of binary BLOBs attached to it. Each attachment has a unique name and retains information such as mimetype, filename and content length. The following kinds of objects support attachments: Co

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Command Line / Transfer Commands

Transfer Commands The Cloud CMS command-line tool provides developers with a command-line driven mechanism that allows them to: export content from Cloud CMS as an Archive import content into new Cloud CMS environments using that Archive Archives consist of ZIP files that store a full capture of the exported content. Archives may consist of an entire snapshot export or they may be partial (spanning date ranges or changeset ranges in the case of Repositories). The Cloud CMS Transfer Services make

Gitana / 4.0 / Developers / Command Line Interface / Transfer Commands

Transfer Commands The Cloud CMS command-line tool provides developers with a command-line driven mechanism that allows them to: export content from Cloud CMS as an Archive import content into new Cloud CMS environments using that Archive Archives consist of ZIP files that store a full capture of the exported content. Archives may consist of an entire snapshot export or they may be partial (spanning date ranges or changeset ranges in the case of Repositories). The Cloud CMS Transfer Services make

Setup a Next.JS Static Site using Cloud CMS

The web application ecosystem has improved leaps and bounds over the years, and its never been easier to make high performance static/hybrid sites quickly and using good development practices. And its just as easy to get these sites going using Cloud CMS as a datasource! Below you'll find a quick guide to get you started using Next.JS with Cloud CMS to setup a simple bookstore website, and some highlights from the code. Getting Started First, you'll need to have a Cloud CMS account and Sample pr

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / User Interface / Workflow

Workflow Cloud CMS provides an enterprise workflow engine that lets teams work together via coordinated tasks. A workflow is a customizable business process that you define and describes a series of steps and activities to be performed by your team members. Workflows are generally used to control the lifecycle state (approval and rejection) of one or more content items or documents. With workflow in place, documents are routed from user to user. Users optionally receive notifications via email a

Gitana / 4.0 / User Interface / Workflow / Overview

Workflow Cloud CMS provides an enterprise workflow engine that lets teams work together via coordinated tasks. A workflow is a customizable business process that you define and describes a series of steps and activities to be performed by your team members. Workflows are generally used to control the lifecycle state (approval and rejection) of one or more content items or documents. With workflow in place, documents are routed from user to user. Users optionally receive notifications via email a

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Content Modeling / Default Paths

Default Paths Your content types define schemas that Cloud CMS uses to render intuitive forms for content entry. In addition, content types let you configure persistence paths so that JSON documents created using these forms are automatically saved in a directory structure that you intend. Paths support templated variables so that the path can be dynamic. It can depend on the values having been entered. For example, let's suppose I have the content type for an article, like this: { "title":

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Content Models / Default Paths

Default Paths Your content types define schemas that Cloud CMS uses to render intuitive forms for content entry. In addition, content types let you configure persistence paths so that JSON documents created using these forms are automatically saved in a directory structure that you intend. Paths support templated variables so that the path can be dynamic. It can depend on the values having been entered. For example, let's suppose I have the content type for an article, like this: { "title":

Role-based security access

You can configure a Cloud CMS project to provide precise, role-based access to content types and content instances. Let's take a look at example of how this is done! Suppose that you have three users - Jim, Dwight and Michael - and two content types (my:article and my:news). We would like things to work like this: Michael is the boss. He is allowed to view, create, edit and delete content content of all types. Dwight is a worker. He is allowed to view, create, edit and delete content of type "my

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / General / Data Lists

Data Lists Cloud CMS allows you to organize multiple content items into a single data list so that the full collection of items can be ordered, managed and worked on all at once. Collections of items organized into a data list additionally support internationalization (I18N), allowing you to flip between multiple locale-based views of the list while working on translations in any of the list's supported locales. Under the hood, a data list is a node of type n:list. It has zero or more associatio

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 / 4.0 / Data Engine / Nodes / Data Lists

Data Lists Cloud CMS allows you to organize multiple content items into a single data list so that the full collection of items can be ordered, managed and worked on all at once. Collections of items organized into a data list additionally support internationalization (I18N), allowing you to flip between multiple locale-based views of the list while working on translations in any of the list's supported locales. Under the hood, a data list is a node of type n:list. It has zero or more associatio

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Query

Query Cloud CMS provides SQL-like, structured query for all of your content. The platform uses MongoDB under the hood to store the JSON for your content. MongoDB offers a powerful, unmatched query engine so that you can execute complex lookups of your content to support both your editorial and runtime application needs. The platform also offers "composite" query operations which let you layer MongoDB queries on top of Elastic Search DSL searches and traversals around node objects. Cloud CMS auto

Gitana / 4.0 / Data Engine / Discovery / Query

Query Cloud CMS provides SQL-like, structured query for all of your content. The platform uses MongoDB under the hood to store the JSON for your content. MongoDB offers a powerful, unmatched query engine so that you can execute complex lookups of your content to support both your editorial and runtime application needs. The platform also offers "composite" query operations which let you layer MongoDB queries on top of Elastic Search DSL searches and traversals around node objects. Cloud CMS auto

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / UI Developers Guide / Configuration

Configuration The configuration service evaluates a series of conditional configuration blocks and determines which blocks to keep in composing a final configuration document for the user interface. The configuration document consists of blocks that define JSON structures that are to be merged into a final JSON configuration that powers the user interface. The configuration service executes two phases - evaluate and merge. It essentially looks like this: [block1] --> --> [config1]

Gitana / 3.2 / Guide / Guide / Application Server / Installation / Module Installation

Module Installation The Cloud CMS Application Server can also be run as a custom Node.js application. It is available as a Node.js module that you can require() in from npmjs.org. The server features a number of extension points that you can utilize to wire in new functionality or extend the framework. Getting Started Here is a simple example where we start up the Application Server from within a Node.js application: var server = require("cloudcms-server/server"); server.start(); The start() me

Gitana / 4.0 / Developers / Application Server / Installation / Module Installation

Module Installation The Cloud CMS Application Server can also be run as a custom Node.js application. It is available as a Node.js module that you can require() in from npmjs.org. The server features a number of extension points that you can utilize to wire in new functionality or extend the framework. Getting Started Here is a simple example where we start up the Application Server from within a Node.js application: var server = require("cloudcms-server/server"); server.start(); The start() me

Gitana / 4.0 / Developers / User Interface Customization / Configuration

Configuration The configuration service evaluates a series of conditional configuration blocks and determines which blocks to keep in composing a final configuration document for the user interface. The configuration document consists of blocks that define JSON structures that are to be merged into a final JSON configuration that powers the user interface. The configuration service executes two phases - evaluate and merge. It essentially looks like this: [block1] --> --> [config1]