AIDA/Scriboa powerful CMS at your fingertips!

Nicolas Petton

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Why another CMS?ArchitectureHistoryScribo at workFutureDemo

Contents

Why another CMS?ArchitectureHistoryScribo at workFutureDemo

What is a CMS?

Content Management SystemWeb application (Web CMS or WCMS)Used for creating and managing HTML content :

HTML pagesAssociated documents (images, attached files, etc)

Why another CMS?

Leveraging Smalltalk strengthsLeveraging Aida/Web strengthsCMS framework for different CMS appsFor developers and end users

Leveraging AIDA/Web strengths

RESTFull and nice looking URLsUser, group, role supportSecurity (Access control)ComponentsAjax integration

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Why another CMS?ArchitectureHistoryScribo at workFutureDemo

Architecture

Architecture

Document

VersioningLifecycleWorkflowSubdocumentsReferences

AttachmentsAccess rightsLockingMultilingual supportPersistenceOther

Document

Versioning

Many versionsUrl always points to the released versionAccess to all versions (http://www.site.org/article.html?version=4)

Document

Lifecycle

States during document's life :#pending, #released, #obsolete, ...

Can be extended and tailored

Document

Workflow

Managing flow of work through document lifecycleFrom editing, multiperson approvals, to releasingWho when what needs to do some taskEmail requesting for some taskEmail notifications of task done

Document

Subdocument

Vertical hierarchy of documentsFolder is a subclass of DocumentFolder can contain documents or other foldersDocument can have Chapters (again subclass of Document)

Document

ReferencesHorizontal links between documentsalso external, to pages on external websites

Attachmentslike images, PDFs and other

Access rightswho (user or group or role) can do what (workflow tasks)

Document

LockingExclusive lock of document while editing :

you got the message: "edited by <person>, please wait"when he finishes, you get: "document is now ready"Implemented by so called Comet (reverse Ajax) technique

Document

Multilingual supportOne document can be in more that one languageA document has always the same URL, regardless of the language.In which language is shown depends on the language of the user.For explicit language : query part of URL: http://www.site.org/article.html?language=fr

Document

PersistenceEach document can be saved on disk

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Plugins

Wikimain plugin. Blog and Website are based on it

Websiteclose to Wikiconceptual difference between wiki and website.

Plugins

Blogvery completefully supports comments, comment timeout, RSS, tags, tag cloud, categories, post publication, and so on

Forum...

Scriblets

Components embeddable into the textsimple way to extend Scribopredefined Scriblets

{GALLERY}, {TOC}, ...

custom Scribletsjust implement a method returning a webelement/component{#nameOfMyMethod}

Gallery scriblet

Scribo at work

Blog: http://nico.bioskop.frSPM : Squeak Project ManagerBiArt/ISO Quality Management Systemaidaweb.si, swazoo.orgNew squeak website...

Future

More dialects:now Squeak and VisualWorksGLASS (Gemstone Linux Aida Swazoo Smalltalk)

more pluginsmore scribletssupport for community web infrastructure

SPM - Squeak Project ManagerSqueak Code on the Web

DEMONSTRATION