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Copyright © 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 FatWire Corporation All rights reserved. |
Welcome to the documentation notes for Content Server V6.2. These notes describe the Content Server product guides and major changes to their content since the last release.
For the latest documentation notes, check the FatWire e-docs web site.
For additional information, contact FatWire
technical support.
The CS 6.2 document set provides documentation for different kinds of users:
Updates to product documentation, as they are made, are posted to the following URL: http://e-docs.fatwire.com/CSEE/6.2.0. Check the site regularly for the latest set.
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Supported Platform List (SPD) |
Provides the list of third-party components that are supported for Content Server installations. To access the SPD, click the Supported Platform List (SPD) link at http://e-docs.fatwire.com/CSEE/6.2.0 |
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Installing Content Server with BEA WebLogic Server |
Explains how to install the Content Server web and portal applications when your site uses BEA WebLogic Server. Since the previous release, the following changes have been made to this guide: ·
Major changes to organization. ·
The guide was updated to reflect changes to
the Content Server installation program. Engineers now have the option to
install FirstSite (the new reference implementation); note that the
“Development” installation mode has been renamed to
“Content Management” mode. |
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Installing Content Server with Sun ONE Application Server |
Explains how to install the Content Server web and portal applications when your site uses the Sun ONE Application Server. Since the previous release, this guide was updated to reflect changes to the Content Server installation program. Engineers now have the option to install FirstSite; note that the “Development” installation mode has been renamed to “Content Management” mode. |
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Guidelines for Installing Content Server with WebSphere |
Provides guidelines for installing the Content Server web application when your site uses WebSphere. |
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Guidelines for Installing Content Server with JBoss |
Provides guidelines for installing the Content Server web application when your site uses JBoss. |
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Upgrading Content Server to |
Explains how to upgrade from Content Server 5.x and 6.1 to version 6.2 (web and/or portal application). |
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Installing Satellite Server |
Explains how to install and configure Satellite Server, both co-resident and remote. Note that page caching functionality has been modified for this release. Information in the Page Caching section of these notes applies to the Satellite Server installation guide. |
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Internationalization Settings Guide |
Provides instructions for configuring Content Server installations to support multi-language operations; for example, how to specify the character set of the database, set properties that determine character encoding, and configure browsers to support content in different languages. |
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Contains information about property files and the properties that are used to specify operating parameters for Content Server and its applications. This guide is also essential to developers and administrators of Content Server systems. Since the previous release, the following changes have been made to the Property Files Reference: · Several property files were added: - omii.ini - omproduct.ini - WL6props.ini - CSPortletRequest.properties -
ServletRequest.properties ·
Information about the transact.ini
file was removed, as Transact is no longer part of the Content Server product
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Information relating to page caching was
updated, as described in the Page Caching section
of these documentation notes. |
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Developer's Guide |
Explains how to create asset types, design pages, set up security, establish caching and web services, and much more. Since the previous release, the following changes have been made to the guide to reflect changes to the Content Server product. Detailed information regarding the changes is given at the beginning of the Developer’s Guide: Page Caching· A new chapter was added—Chapter 6, “ Advanced Page Caching Techniques.” This chapter describes how pages and blobs are cached, where they are cached, and how they are retrieved from cache on both Content Server and Satellite Server systems. · Removed: -
The FileServer servlet. Users who need
FileServer must use Satellite Server 5.5 or an earlier version. -
satellite.tag · Renamed: - The cacheinfo column (in the SiteCatalog table) was renamed to: cscacheinfo - The cs.pageCacheTimeout property was renamed to: cs.pgCacheTimeout - The satellite.ini file was renamed to satellite.properties and moved into the web application. · Added: - sscacheinfo column - cron-like TimePattern expiration for cscacheinfo and sscacheinfo · Enhanced: - TimePattern syntax for both the cscacheinfo and sscacheinfo columns. - Support for XML-based pages. · Users of this guide also need to be aware of the following methods: ics.disableFragmentCache() and ics.disableCache() for disabling caching on pages within the page invocation instance. Topics Related to Page CachingCreation of SiteEntry assets. The current interface and procedures for creating SiteEntry assets are based on the new page caching functionality and are provided in chapter 20. References to Transact and Commerce ConnectorBecause Transact is no longer part of the Content Server product suite, the following references to Transact and its supporting Commerce Connector product were removed from this guide: “Visitor Management and Commerce Connector” section, “About Commerce and Access IDs” section, “About the Transact Visitor Data” section; the “Commerce Integration” chapter; and references to the tag libraries csmac.tld and csuser.tld. Other Changes · Chapter 1, “Overview” was supplemented with detailed descriptions of the Content Server product, its add-on offerings, and client applications that provide users with alternative interfaces to the standard CS interface. Descriptions and comparisons of the basic asset and flex asset families have also been amplified. · Chapter 9, previously “The Content Server Site,” was renamed to “Content Management Sites” and moved to chapter 3 in this guide. · Instances of “Content Server site” were renamed to “content management site” or simply “site” (i.e., the back end of the online site). · The following appendixes were added: - “Creating a Hierarchical Flex family” provides a tutorial on a how to create a flex family and how each member of the family functions. - “URL Assemblers” explains how you can define the appearance of URLs. - “White Space and Compression” shows you how to eliminate white space in text pages that are streamed to client browsers, and therefore how to optimize the size of a response and the use of bandwidth. |
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Delivery Portlet Developer’s Guide |
Explains the concepts of creating delivery portlets for Content Server, using the Spark reference implementation as a sample site. (Note that the Delivery Portlet Developer’s Guide covers the Spark portal application, as well.) |
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Tag Reference |
Contains reference pages for Content Server public XML and JSP tags, the
CS Web Services, and JAVA API. |
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Property Files Reference |
See Property Files
Reference (cited for installation engineers). |
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Administrator's Guide |
Explains how to administer Content Server. Provides information about user and system management operations, workflow planning and configuration, revision tracking, publishing, and database maintenance. |
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Property Files Reference |
See Property Files Reference (cited for installation engineers). |
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User's Guide |
Written for content providers working in a non-portal environment. Content
providers can be authors, marketers, publicists, editors, copyeditors,
artists, photographers, publishers, and anyone else who contributes content
for their web sites. This guide provides information about using Content
Server's standard (non-portal) interface.
Since the previous release, the following changes
have been made to the User’s Guide: · Procedures for using the portal interface were moved to the Portal Applications User’s Guide. Note that administrators of the Content Server portal continue to use the standard CS interface in order to manage assets, workflows, publishing and similar CM operations. · Added: - Explanation of basic and flex asset models. - Appendix that outlines when users might be exposed to differences between basic and flex assets, when the differences are important, and when they affect the user’s input into content management forms. - Description of FirstSite, the new reference implementation. · Modified chapter 1: renamed from “About Assets” to “Basic Content Management Concepts”; supplemented conceptual material with illustrations and more comprehensive explanations. |
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Portal Applications User's Guide |
Written for content providers working in a portal environment. Content providers
can be authors, marketers, publicists, editors, copyeditors, artists,
photographers, publishers, and anyone else who contributes content for their
web sites. Note that in the previous release, this guide was named the Spark User’s Guide. It was renamed when information about the CS portal application was removed from the Content Server User’s Guide and merged with the Spark guide. Other changes include the following additions and modifications: · Added explanation of basic and flex asset models to chapter 1. · Added appendix that outlines when users might be exposed to differences between basic and flex assets and when the differences are important. · Added description of FirstSite, the new reference implementation. · Modified chapter 1: Renamed this chapter from “About Assets” to “Basic Content Management Concepts”; supplemented conceptual material with illustrations and more comprehensive explanations. |
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CS-Desktop Help File |
Provides online help for CS-Desktop. |
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InSite Editor Help File |
Provides online help for the InSite Editor. |
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CS-DocLink Help File |
Provides online help for CS-DocLink. |
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