After 18 months of development, Alkacon will release the new version 8.5 of OpenCms during this conference. Alexander will introduce the main new features of OpenCms 8.5 in his conference opening keynote. New features in OpenCms 8.5 include: Editing content directly "in place" on the web page The greatly enhanced GWT/Ajax based XML content edtior Solr content queries CMIS integration SEO functionality Inheritance containers ... and more

1. Conference Opening Keynote
Introducing OpenCms 8.5
24.09.2012 Alexander Kandzior, Alkacon Software

2. OpenCms Days 2012 Sponsors
Thank you very much!

3. Some Questions
● Question:
Who has already attended an OpenCms Days
conference before?
● Question:
Who of you is mostly using…
● OpenCms 7.x ?
● OpenCms 8.0 ?

4. OpenCms 8.5 Release
● OpenCms Version 8.5 will be released today
● Available on opencms.org September 24, 2012
● OpenCms 8.5 design goals:
● Improve the content manages user experience,
especially while editing content
● Provide the developer with more powerful,
standard based access to the content reository
● Be backward compatible to versions 8.0 and 7.5

5. The Editors in OpenCms 8.5
● Page Editor
Main area of
● Content Editor improvement in
OpenCms 8.5
● Sitemap Editor

6. Live Demo – Content Editor (1)

7. Live Demo – Content Editor (2)

8. Live Demo – Content Editor (3)

9. Live Demo – Content Editor (4)

10. OpenCms 8.5 Editor Summary
● Content can be edited „inline“ on the page
● Content can be edited form based
● It‘s easy to combine / switch both approaches
● Editor is much faster, much more responsive
● Works with existing 8.0 / 7.5 content “out of the
box”, no changes to the XSD schema required

11. OpenCms 8.5 SEO Features
● OpenCms 8.5 now has integrated SEO
features
● SEO = “Search engine optimization”
● Goal: Automate “common” SEO tasks related
to the website / content

15. OpenCms 8.5 SEO Summary
● SEO features are easily accessible from a
simple dialog in the page / sitemap editor
● Individual page aliases
● Regular expression aliases
● Automated generation of robots.txt and
sitemap.xml

16. OpenCms 8.5 Solr Integration

17. Solr Demo (1)

18. Solr Demo (2)

19. Solr Demo (3)

20. OpenCms 8.5 Solr Summary
● Solr fully integrated in OpenCms 8.5
● Standard Solr API supported through request
handler
● Use tools as “ajax-solr” out of the box
● Honors OpenCms user permissions
● Use Solr as noSQL database to query the
OpenCms repository, fast
● Results are list of CmsResource objects, merged
with the Solr document

21. OpenCms 8.5 CMIS Integration

22. CMIS Demo (1)

23. CMIS Demo (2)

24. CMIS Demo (3)

25. CMIS Demo (4)

26. CMIS Demo (5)

27. OpenCms 8.5 CMIS Summary
● CMIS integrated in OpenCms 8.5
● Provides standard based access to the
OpenCms content repository
● Full support for CRUD operations
● Allows queries to collect resources

28. 8.5 user interface improvements
● We made a number of “small changes”…

29. UI Improvements Demo (1)

30. UI Improvements Demo (2)

31. UI Improvements Demo (3)

32. UI Improvements Demo (4)

33. UI Improvements Demo (5)

34. UI Improvements Demo (6)

35. 8.5 UI improvements summary
● Streamlined user interface
● Enhanced galleries
● More features in the Sitemap
● Inheritance groups

36. Updating from previous versions
● Update wizard is available
● Tested with OpenCms 7.5, 8.0 versions
● Adding “inline edit” to existing OpenCms 8.0
formatters is super easy
● Just add one expression language statement
● Look out for:
● Changes in the org.opencms.search.* packages
● Custom widgets in the old content editor

37. Alkacon OCEE
● Question:
Who of you is using Alkacon OCEE?
● OCEE Version 3.5 to be released
until October 1, 2012
● Required for OpenCms 8.5

38. Demo server and documentation
● The OpenCms demo server has already been
updated with OpenCms 8.5
● http://demo.opencms.org
● Available September 24, 212
● OpenCms 8.5 comes with 70+ pages of
documentation
● More to be added in the near future

39. What’s coming next?
● Expect OpenCms 9.0 in about 12 to 18 months
● Possible areas of improvement
● Semantic CMS features
● Deeper Solr repository integration
● Individual detail pages
● Multilanguage sitemaps
● Bootstrap template demo
● Workflow

40. Thank you very much for your
attention!
Alexander Kandzior
Alkacon Software GmbH
http://www.alkacon.com
http://www.opencms.org