The document discusses advanced content management and collaborative web publishing with Joomla!. It highlights Joomla!'s content management strength in its framework and large community. However, it notes that a main lack is around flexible content types. Flexicontent aims to address this with its philosophy of freedom, backwards compatibility, and extensive content type capabilities.
3. What is the strengh
of Joomla! ?
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4. What is the strengh
of Joomla! ?
Its Content Management
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5. What is the strengh
of Joomla! ?
Its Content Management
its Framework?
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6. What is the strengh
of Joomla! ?
Its Content Management
its Framework?
Community
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8. What is the main
lack
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9. What is the main
lack
Content
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10. What is the main
lack
Content
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11. What is mandatory for a
• Nested categories
• Multi-mapping
• Aggregation
• Decent search
• Modular contents
• Workflow
• Version control
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13. FLEXIcontent’s philosophy
Freedom:
com_content backwards compatibility
Integrate or extend rather than re-
develop
universal plugin and modules support
Easy maintenance
One component to maintain
Short training
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14. End user benefits
Easy classification and retrieving
• Unlimited nested categories : you can have the
same structure frontend and backend
• Categories multi-mapping : you can put the
same content in multiple places
• Booleean backend search
Easy to understand
• A simple and intuitive user interface
• Every type of content in a same place
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16. Integrator benefits
Compliance with existing extensions
• Compatible with most of the existing modules
through the usage of the content and
categories tables
• Most of the content plugins are also
compatible
On mesures applications without
programming skills
• Unlimited content types.
• Many fields types available
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17. Developer benefits
Standard Joomla! MVC coding
• Compliance with existing Joomla! coding
standards
• Compliance with Joomla! naming conventions
Extensible throught standard Joomla! plugins
• No specific system to learn, just simple Joomla
plugins to build your own custom fields.
• Understandable plugin events
(onBeforeSaveField, onAfterSaveField, ...)
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18. Content in a broad sense
to be able to design you
own components
CCK == content
types
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19. Key Features for an Intranet
or a collaborative web publishing
system
•ACL
•Version approval
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20. Letʼs see it in action
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