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Tutorial 1
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Open the dashboard by clicking the button on the top right of the page. Select 'Sitemap'. You'll see you sitetree consisting of one or more pages.
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If you have not created any other page yet, click on the 'Home' page icon to display the context menu. Click 'add page' and select the 'Spaceship Overview' pagetype as template.
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The composer dialog for this pagetype appears and offers inputs to give your new page a name, url segment, description and creation date. Enter 'All Spaceships' into the page name input. When you're done click the 'Edit Mode' button to jump directly to your new page to set up the spaceship display and filtering.
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You'll be redirected to the edit mode of the new page. The edit mode allows to edit blocks directly, which is only needed for express list blocks to set up page level filtering and sorting. When you hover over the page you'll recognize several blocks and areas. When editing express overview pages, there is only one block to edit. Click on the express list block to show the context menu and select 'Edit Block'.
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The Express List Block provides several categories of display controls.
- Source & Search: Control the Entity to display and search columns
- Filtering: The Express entries can be filtered for any of their attributes and associations. Also multiple filters are possible, but keep in mind that both conditions need to be met. Filtering by associations only works with one to one associations.
- Results: The result column set controls which columns of data are displayed and their order. Also the sorting column and linked properties can be defined.
- Design: Change the headline and description of the Express List Table
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Thats it, your express list page is done and displays the entries you defined. When this page is part of an IDML export, the entries, their columnset and order, sorting and custom labels will be respected. This way you can create pages that only show a selection of all entries. Like all blue spaceships. Or spaceships in a certain price range.
Tutorial 2
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Open the dashboard by clicking the button on the top right of the page. Select 'Sitemap'. You'll see you sitetree consisting of one or more pages.
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If you have not created any other page yet, click on the 'Home' page icon to display the context menu. Click 'add page' and select the 'Article Overview' pagetype as template.
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The composer dialog for this pagetype appears and offers inputs to give your new page a name, url segment, description, location and creation date. Below are block controls for the article block. The article pagetypes offer the same inputs.
- Headline: unformatted text
- Subheadline: unformatted text
- Copytext: formatted text
- Fileset: a fileset of multiple images
- Image: a single image
When you are done, click 'Publish Page' or 'Submit to Workflow'.
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Tutorial Program Tutorialprograms
See tutorial programs below according to your filtering or search.
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| Name | Description | Tutorial |
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| Translation | Tutorials about the multilingual features. Learn about translating all your pages and express objects, editing translations and adding more languages. | Prepare Editorial Content for AI translation Prepare Express data for translation AI translation Edit Express translations |
| IDML Export | Tutorials for Export features. Learn to create templates from your designs and to export idml documents. | IDML Export |
| Express Data Objects | Express entities are data objects which can contain any combination of attributes and associations. Express entities can be created by a database import or from scratch. Some default entities are built in and ready to use as part of your ContentCrank. We prepared tutorials for the most frequently needed tasks. | Express Entries and Entities Entity settings Express content pages Express forms |
| Database Import | Tutorials for using the database features. Learn about connected databases, dump imports and updating existing entries and entities. | Import a SQL dump Connect to a remote database Importing tables |
| Content Creation | Tutorials about the workflow and best practices to create and edit content and structure. | Express content pages Article Pages |
Tutorial Tutorials
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| Name | Description | Tutorial Program |
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| Import a SQL dump | If you have a SQL file - a dump or database backup, you can import it using the Upload Database Dump feature. | Database Import |
| Connect to a remote database | If you want to pull data from a live database you can connect directly to it and update the objects later. | Database Import |
| Importing tables | No matter if you connected directly to a database or uploaded a dump, the importing follows the same rules. | Database Import |
| IDML Export | Learn to export your content to idml. | IDML Export |
| Express Entries and Entities | A quick explanation for express data objects. We use the spaceships example from the database import tutorials as reference. Imported express entities like the spaceships mirror their database table`s structure like columns, column types and column order. Generally put, express data objects create a logic layer between raw values, associations and their form of output. That means you can not only edit any value itself, the global structure and display of each express entry value can be customized. | Express Data Objects |
| Entity settings | Define how units, labels and associated columns are displayed. | Express Data Objects |
| Express content pages | Learn how to create content pages with express entities. Entries can be ordered, sorted and filtered in many ways. | Content Creation Express Data Objects |
| Express forms | You can create different forms for different contexts like a full blown product katalogue ouput with all columns and values or a simplified output with only selected attributes like images and headlines. | Express Data Objects |
| Article Pages | Article pages offer an easy way to create editorial content. | Content Creation |
| Prepare Editorial Content for AI translation | Create a new localization for your pages. | Translation |
| Prepare Express data for translation | Create a dictionary for your express content. | Translation |
| AI translation | Translate all your content in a few minutes to up to ~70 languages. | Translation |
| Edit Express translations | Learn where to edit and correct Express translations. | Translation |
| Start your ContentCrank trial | Create a personalized demo system to try out our services for a week. Use predefined use cases to see everything in action without creating your own data - which you still can. |
