Alexander Kandzior, Alkacon Software

Conference KeynoteIntroducing OpenCms 10.5

26.09.2015

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● Apollo Template 2.0

● Fine tuning of the page editor and workplace

● Translation, Localization, Internationalization

OpenCms 10.5 in a nutshell

● OpenCms 10.5 Beta will be released today● Available on the website around 17:00h● 10.5 Beta is almost feature complete!

● OpenCms 10.5.0 “final” target is November 30● Only 8 Months since OpenCms 10.0 (March 23)

OpenCms 10.5 Release Schedule

The Apollo Template 2.0

● Live Demo

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Apollo Template 2.0

Apollo ThemingIdentical Elements

Different Template and CSS

● Available on GitHub with OpenCms 10.5 Final

Apollo Theming Toolkit

● New resource types● Contact information● FAQs● Job offerings● Link sequence

● Improved:● Nice animation effects● “Behind the scenes” markup like hCard microformat

● Optimized CSS / JS● Grunt / SCSS based build process● Single file, minified● Source maps provided● Apollo CSS can be used with multiple “themes” like Unify● On GitHub with the final release of OpenCms 10.5

Apollo 2.0 Summary

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Editor & Workplace

● Explorer / Workplace enhancements● Additional columns “Copyright”, “Cache settings”● User management / password security, settings ● Context sensitive quicklaunch switch● New window opens in online project

● Page editor shortcuts● View / Edit point layers Ctrl-E / Ctrl-Shift-E● Copy element after drag & drop Ctrl – MouseUp● Online markup preview on “Toggle edit points”● Show / update edit points on ajax loaded pages

Workplace Summary

Mixing content with external assets

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Asset Connection

● Seamless integration of external asset sources for content editors● Link Image, Video or Document storages● Base Widget with API + Template JSP functions

● Allows to combine external asset info with content added in OpenCms● All in one XML content● Additional asset information can be stored in JSON● Provides template EL functions to read data from JSON

● Transfer any kind of data from the asset source to the template● To render the output, use XML Content data, stored Asset

data or read the data live from the asset source

Asset Connection Summary

Creation of new pagesCopy page with elements!

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Page Copy

● Turns your existing container pages to “templates”

● Elements on the page are copied with the page● Only elements that are marked for copy● “Common elements” like rows are always reused

● Works across sites / sub-sitemaps● Subsites must share template and common elements

● Also option to re-use content elements● To be used for translation, see later slides● Just use the “Automatic” mode in case you are unsure

Page Copy Summary

● i18n● L10n

● Localisation (British English)

● Localization (American English)

● Therefore: L10n (Universal)

Locali-What?

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Single Tree L10n in 10.5

Single Tree URLs

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/sites/default/page/Locale: de

site.com/de/page/

Page rendered in German

/sites/default/page/Locale: en

site.com/en/page/

Page rendered in English

● URL to locale mapping● /en/mypage à /mypage (Locale en)

● Link substitution handler● Link from /en/mypage à /de/mypage

● Localized Properties● Additions to the Template API● e.g. read property of a certain locale

● L10n Bundle Editor (Translator)● Not only for the single tree approach!

Single Tree L10n Features in 10.5

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L10n Bundle Editor

● Allows easy editing of resource bundles● Filter for key of value● Compare the different locales● Find missing keys in a locale

● Works with properties and XML bundles● Use properties for new projects

● Bundle descriptor allows to predefine the keys● So non-technical users can do only translations

L10n Bundle Editor Summary

Multiple Tree L10n

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Multiple Tree L10n

● Maintain different sitemaps for languages● Easy to use tool to compare locales in sitemap● Sitemaps can be very similar or totally different

● Copy pages from one language to another● Contents are normally reused, not copied● Just click in the copied page and start to translate

● New “language relation” between pages ● Stored in CRE● Template API for page language switches

Multi Tree L10n Summary

● Templates from 10.0 / 9.x work out of the box

● Existing Template API unchanged● Just added lots of new API Options

● Update wizard to be available with final

Updating to OpenCms 10.5

● OCEE Version 5.5 to be released together with OpenCms 10.5 end of November 2016● Required for OpenCms 10.5

● No OCEE available for 10.5 Beta

Alkacon OCEE

● 10.5.0 Final release November 30, 2016

● Next stop: OpenCms 11● Target release date: Q4 2017

● Possible areas of improvement● Updates to many Admin Apps (Modules, Users…)● “Next Generation” Content repository

● More in the repository session later today

OpenCms Roadmap

Alexander KandziorAlkacon Software GmbH

http://www.alkacon.comhttp://www.opencms.org

Thank you very much for your attention!