Advanced IBM Web Content Manager 8.0

Unit 1: Web Content Manager API

• API overview of workspace, rendering context, manage content, search content
• Cache considerations

Unit 2: REST services for Web Content Manager

• Overview of the REST services capability
• Service entry points
• Access levels
• Query service and parameters
• Using REST services to create, delete, or update web content items

Unit 3: Extending the authoring environment

• APIs for authoring environment
• Look and feel options
• Plugin options (file upload class, text provider class)

Unit 4: Extending change management with custom workflows

• Custom workflow overview

Unit 5: Overview of the presentation layer

• Overview of navigators, menus, site areas
• Information architecture and implementation
• How they are related
• When to use which one
• Overview of portal page structure (extension of site framework
• How is can be used to dynamically generate navigation

Unit 6: Enhanced rendering

• Overview of options
• Custom launch pages
• Enhanced menu components
• Dynamic content based on the content ID
• Rendering plugins

Unit 7: Enhancing the look and feel

• Presentation template overview of the different ways to change style
• Theme customization (portal)
• Combined Portal and WCM navigation (generated integrated breadcrumbs)
• Cascading CSS (content, components, presentation templates)
• Inline HTML style (content, components, presentation templates)

Unit 8: Personalization

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

Unit 9: Integrating content with IBM Web Content Integrator

• Overview of IBM Web Content Integrator (concept of producer and consumer)
• Feed format
• Issues with embedded links in feeds

Unit 10: Integrating ECM using federated documents

• Overview of how WCM retrieves content from ECM servers (federated documents)
• Overview of integration
• Security considerations (SSO with WebSphere Application Server)

Unit 11: Security

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

Unit 12: Working with libraries

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

Unit 13: Search

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