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Supported Platform Document (SPD)

Lists Content Server's supporting software (available from the respective vendors).
To access the SPD, click the Supported Platform Document (SPD) link at:
http://e-docs.fatwire.com/CSEE/7.0.0

The SPD is also accessible directly at: http://www.fatwire.com/Support/cs700.html

Configuring Third-Party Software

Explains how to install and configure third-party software (listed in the SPD) to support Content Server. Provides instructions for:

• Creating and configuring databases

• Installing web servers

• Installing and configuring LDAP servers

Revisions in this release:

• Database creation/configuration instructions were added to cover the currently supported databases:

          - IBM DB2 v 9.1 

          - MS SQL Server 2005

• LDAP installation/configuration instructions were added to cover the currently supported LDAP servers:

  - OpenLDAP 

  - WebLogic Embedded LDAP

  - Sun Java Systems Access Manager

  - Sun Java Systems Directory Server

• LDAP integration instructions were moved to the CS-LDAP integration guide, created for this release (the title is Integrating Content Server 7.0 with LDAP).

Guidelines for Upgrading to
Version 7.0

Provides instructions for upgrading CS installations from v6.3 patch 5 to v7.0 using the CS installer (for which online help is now available).

Revisions in this release:
Steps that explain how to upgrade Content Server have been moved to the CS installer's online help.

 Note:  In all Content Server installation guides, steps that explain how to install Content Server, itself, have been moved to online help. (Other revisions include changes to procedures regarding the configuration of Content Server's supporting software, and changes to post-installation tests and options.)

Installing Content Server with BEA WebLogic Server

Explains how to install the Content Server web and portal applications with the currently supported BEA WebLogic Server.

Installing Content Server with JBoss Application Server

Explains how to install Content Server web and portal applications with the currently supported JBoss application server.

Installing Content Server with Resin Application Server

New guide. Explains how to install the Content Server web application with the currently supported Resin application server.

Installing Content Server with Sun Java Enterprise System

Explains how to install the Content Server web and portal applications with the currently supported Sun Java Enterprise System.

Installing Content Server with Tomcat Application Server

Explains how to install the Content Server web application with the currently supported Tomcat application server.

Installing Content Server with WebSphere

Explains how to install the Content Server web application with the currently supported  WebSphere Server.

Installing Satellite Server

Explains how to install and configure Satellite Server, both co-resident and remote. Applies to web and portal installations. 

Integrating Content Server 7.0 with LDAP

New guide. Explains how to integrate Content Server with:

• Flat-schema LDAP servers (using the CS-LDAP integrator, provided with Content Server)

• Hierarchical-schema LDAP

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.

Property Files Reference

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.

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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.

Revisions in this release:

• New chapter 6: "Intelligent Cache Management." This chapter describes the rendering engine and its components. This chapter also describes cache configuration properties that enable CacheManager to clear the ContentServer, BlobServer, and SatelliteServer caches. 

• New chapter 26: "Configuring Sites for Multilingual Support."

• Revised chapter 22, "Creating Templates to Support Graphical Page Design" to reflect changes to InSite templating (formerly chapter 21).

Tag Reference

Contains reference pages for Content Server public XML and JSP tags, the CS Web Services reference, and Java API.

Revisions in this release:

• Asset API has been added.

Property Files Reference

See Property Files Reference (under "Installation Engineers").

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Description

Administrator's Guide

Explains how to manage Content Server. Provides information about user and system management operations, workflow planning and configuration, revision tracking, publishing, and database maintenance.

Property Files Reference

See Property Files Reference (cited for installation engineers).

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Dashboard Interface User's Guide

New. Shows content providers how to work with Content Server's new Dashboard interface, which provides quick, intuitive access to the tools for creating and managing content. Its user-friendly design simplifies content management tasks, facilitates access to information, provides full-text search, incorporates Web 2.0 features (such as tagging), and supports different locales and languages.

This guide covers all features in the Dashboard interface. For a listing, see "Features in the Dashboard Interface" (in chapter 1).

Advanced Interface User's Guide

Formerly the Content Server User's Guide. This document guides content providers through creation, management, and publication of content, collaboration in workflows, and usage of recommendation assets to support marketing campaigns.

Revisions in this release:

• Updates to this guide reflect "look-and-feel" changes to Content Server's pre-existing interface and introduce the newly developed features — InSite interface, which supports graphical page layout and in-context editing; Multilingual Assets, featuring extensive translation support including side-by-side comparison of translated assets, translation into double-byte languages (such as Chinese), and workflow of language versions.

• Major editorial changes were made throughout the guide. The first three chapters were revised to provide readers with an in-depth understanding of how their content is stored and classified; narrative sections were replaced with step-by-step quick tours of the Content Server interface to give readers more of a hands-on experience with Content Server's features. Other extensive changes were made especially to chapters dealing with workflow and recommendation assets.

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