Advanced IBM Web Content Manager 7.0

Lesson 1: Web Content Manager Application Programming Interface

• Overview
• Cache considerations

Lesson 2: Extending the authoring environment

• APIs for the authoring environment
• Look and feel options
• Plug-in options

Lesson 3: Extending change management with custom workflows

• Custom workflow overview

Lesson 4: Overview of the presentation layer

• Overview of navigators, menus, and site areas
• Introduction to information architecture (IA) and how it relates to Web Content Manager components
• How Web Content Manager components are related
• When to use Web Content Manager components
• Overview of the portal page structure (extension of site framework)
• How the portal page structure can be used to dynamically generate navigation

Lesson 5: Enhanced rendering

• Overview of rendering options
• Enhanced menu components
• Dynamic content based on the content ID
• Rendering plug-ins

Lesson 6: Enhancing the look and feel

• Changing styles
• Theme customization (WebSphere® Portal)
• Combined WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager navigation (generated integrated breadcrumbs)
• Cascading Style Sheets (content, components, and presentation templates)
• Inline HTML style (content, components, and presentation templates)

Lesson 7: Personalization

• Overview of when to use personalization and profiling
• Performance considerations for personalization
• Best practices for personalization

Lesson 8: Integrating content with IBM Web Content Integrator

• Overview of the IBM® Web Content Integrator
• Feed format
• Issues with embedded links in feeds

Lesson 9: Integrating ECM using federated documents

• Overview of how Web Content Manager retrieves content from Enterprise Content Management (ECM) servers (federated documents)
• Overview of integration
• Security considerations (single sign-on (SSO) with WebSphere Application Server)

Lesson 10: Security

• Review of roles (user, contributor, editor, manager, administrator, delegator, and privileged user)
• Review of predefined groups (anonymous, authenticated, users and user groups, and all user groups)
• Review of the relationship between WebSphere Portal and Web Content Manager security
• Review of interface for assigning access levels
• Considerations for security in applications

Lesson 11: Libraries

• Review of library options, such as setting up a common library for shared images
• Discussion of when multiple libraries are beneficial (such as library for each company division)
• Review of library performance considerations
• Review of library techniques, such as creating labels, restoring content based on labels, and disabling versus deleting a library

Lesson 12: Search

• Review of search options (out-of-the-box search; Omnifind; and third-party searches, such as Google)
• Benefits and limitations of each option
• Architecture of each option
• Integrating with custom fields

For practical, hands-on training, labs are included at the end of select lessons. To reinforce the instruction, activities or Checkpoints are included at the end of select topics within a lesson.