INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY FOR MINNESOTA GOVERNMENT

Steve Klaussteve.klaus@state.mn.us

Tridion ContentManagement System

Quick Start

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Introduction to Tridion

The Content Manager runs in a familiar web browser.

You will use the Content Manager to:createeditorganizepublish content

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Creating content

Content is created separately from design elements, then combined to create publishable Pages

Teams in your organization can concentrate on appropriate roles (Content creators, designers, developers)

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Managing content

Content is reusable, yet maintained in one place

All versions of content components and pages are saved

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Roles

Authors create and edit content cannot publish

Editors create and edit content and pages

can publish only to the Staging Server

Approvers create, edit, and delete content and pages can publish to both the Staging & the Live Server first point of contact for all local Authors and Editors

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Website Building BlocksA Tridion website is easily built by creating and assembling simple building blocks

Component

PageTemplate

Page

CR

EAT

ESELE

CT

SiteTemplate Compone

nt

ComponentTemplate

Schema

Content Web Pages

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Building Blocks: Create a Component

• Defines structure of your content

• This one is a News Article

Field Type Required

Title text Y

Summary text N

Body rich text Y

Image image N

Author text N

Date date Y

• Enter your content into a component

• Based on the schema you choose

• FAQ, Image Rotator, Blog, etc.

Title:

Summary:

Body:

Image:

Author:

Date:

Daffy Voted Top Duck!Donald fumes

Millions of votes …

daffy.jpg

Elmer Fudd

12/12/13

Component

Schema

CR

EAT

ESELE

CT

Page

• When you create pages, you will add one or more components to each page

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Building Blocks: Create a Page

Title

Author

PageLayout

Header

Daffy Voted Top Duck!Donald fumes

Millions of votes have been counted and Daffy comes out ontop. Donald demands a recount.by Elmer Fudd

ComponentTemplate

PageTemplate

Page

CR

EAT

ESELE

CT

SiteTemplate

Header

Footer

Branding &

Navigation

Footer

Left Nav

Component

Title:

Summary:

Body:

Image:

Author:

Date:

Daffy Voted Top Duck!Donald fumes

Millions of votes …

daffy.jpg

Elmer Fudd

12/12/13

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Hands-on Lab

Content Management

Create folders

Create a new General Content Component

Create a new Multimedia Component

Edit content – add image

Edit content – add hyperlink to work document

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Folders Organize your content

Folders in Tridion are much like folders in Windows A way to organize your content in the Tridion CMS

Folders contain Content components Multimedia components

Content folders will typically mirror your structure groups

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Hands-on Lab

Website Management

Create structure groups

Assemble a page

Metadata

Adding components

Publish the page to stage

Updating the navigation

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Structure Groups Organize your website

Structure Groups organize pages provide a URL structure for pages

Each Structure Group represents a separate (sub)section of the resulting web site

Pages can be added to each level of a Structure Group and then publish either the entire Structure Group or parts of the Structure Group