IBM Software - WebSphere

Course description Developing Websites Using

IBM Web Content Manager
8.5

WPL47 (Classroom)

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This course introduces the concepts and skills necessary to build a website by using IBM Web Content Manager 8.5. It
includes building an authoring system, creating and managing web content items, creating a change management
framework, and delivering web content.
Hands-on exercises on the Windows operating system are provided throughout the course, giving you practical
experience with building, designing, and managing a website.
This course provides lab exercises running on IBM Web Content Manager 8.5 Cumulative Fix 06. Also included are the
Content Template Catalog (CTC) 4.3 and IBM Script Portlet 1.3.
The lab environment for this course uses the Microsoft Windows Server 2008 platform.
For information about other related courses, visit the IBM Training website:

ibm.com/training

General information
Delivery method
Classroom

Course level
ERC 1.0

Product and version

IBM Web Content Manager 8.5

Audience
This course is designed for users who need to build a website and authoring system by using IBM Web Content Manager
8.5.

Learning objectives
After completing this course, you should be able to:
 Build a website by using IBM Web Content Manager
 Create components for reuse and ease of maintenance
 Create a content authoring system and authoring templates
 Create and manage web content items
 Create a content library and manage access to the library
 Add navigational components to a website
 Add personalization components to a website
 Use inline editing functions
 Create and work with draft items and publish the draft
 Provide secure user access to a website
 Implement change management practices
 Reference Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files in presentation templates and components
 Describe and identify the components in the Content Template Catalog (CTC)
 Use IBM Site Builder to build various websites
 Use the IBM Mobile Preview for Digital Experience Software
 Install IBM Script Portlet
 Build applications by using the Script Portlet Editor

Prerequisites
Before taking this course, students should have:
 Experience with using HTML and CSS
 Experience in website development and maintenance

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  Experience in existing workflow and security practices

Duration
5 days

Skill level
Intermediate

Classroom (ILT) setup requirements

Processor Intel Core i7-3630QM
GB RAM 8
GB free disk space 120
Network requirements LAN
Other requirements None

Notes
The following unit and exercise durations are estimates, and might not reflect every class experience. If the course is
customized or abbreviated, the duration of unchanged units will probably increase.
This course is an update of the following previous courses:
 WPL43, Developing Websites Using IBM Web Content Manager 8.0

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Course agenda

Welcome
Duration: 15 minutes

Unit 1. Overview of IBM Web Content Manager

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Overview This unit introduces IBM Web Content Manager, the design of documents, and the website
prototype.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Create a web content library
 Configure the authoring portlet

Exercise 1. Overview of IBM Web Content Manager

Duration: 40 minutes

Overview In this introductory exercise, you access WebSphere Portal server. You create some basic
elements that are used throughout the exercises. Next, you are introduced to the use of the
authoring portlet.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Start, stop, and query the status of the WebSphere Portal server
 Access WebSphere Content Manager with accounts that have different roles
 Go to different websites managed with WebSphere Content Manager
 Create a content library and define roles and permissions to access that library
 Access the authoring portlet and modify the display of library contents

Unit 2. Templates, components, items, and search

Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Overview This unit introduces templates, components, and items.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Create a site area
 Create an authoring template
 Create a presentation template
 Define a template map
 Create a content item
 Create components
 Preview a web page

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Exercise 2. Creating templates, components, and items
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you learn how to create templates, components, and items for a website.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Create a site area
 Create an authoring template
 Create a content item
 Create and update a presentation template
 Create a template map and assign default content
 Create an image component
 Create a menu component

Unit 3. Pages, portlets, and page templates

Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Overview This unit covers an overview of pages and portlets, managed pages and templates, and
previewing content.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Create a page
 Create and use page templates
 Add and configure a web content viewer portlet

Exercise 3. Pages, portlets, and page templates

Duration: 1 hour

Overview In this exercise, you learn to manage pages. You create and modify page templates and pages.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Create page templates
 Create and delete pages
 Specify content for pages
 Update a presentation template

Unit 4. Adding navigational components to your website

Duration: 1 hour

Overview This unit covers the site navigation, the navigator, menu, and page navigation components.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Create a navigator component
 Create a menu component
 Create a paging tool component
 Search IBM Web Content Manager content

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Exercise 4. Adding navigational components and search queries to a website
Duration: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you create and examine various navigational components and create a search
query form.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Design page navigation components
 Create a banner navigator
 Create a breadcrumb navigator
 Create a page navigation component
 Create a search content source
 Create a search form

Unit 5. Item management

Duration: 20 minutes

Overview This unit covers folders and versioning.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Create folders and use them to group selected components
 Use the version control feature to restore a version of an item

Exercise 5. Item management

Duration: 15 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you learn how to use folders and versions.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Create folders within the Components view
 Restore different template versions

Unit 6. Personalization and categories

Duration: 50 minutes

Overview This unit explains personalization, the user name, personalization components, taxonomy, and
categories.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Use a user name component to deliver different content to anonymous and authenticated
users
 Use a personalization component to deliver a rule-based list of upcoming events
 Create a taxonomy and then create a menu to display featured items

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Exercise 6. Personalization and categories
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you create a user name and personalization components, a taxonomy, and
various categories.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Create and test a user name component
 Personalize profile-based content and use personalization rules
 Apply security and use authorization and access control based personalization
 Create personalization components
 Create sections and events
 Create taxonomies
 Create categories
 Creating a content template that includes an option selection element
 Assign a content template
 Create a list presentation component
 Create a menu

Unit 7. Custom authoring features

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Overview This unit covers authoring systems, custom portal pages, and inline editing.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Create custom portal pages for authoring
 Add inline editing
 Personalize the Home page
 Simplify authoring templates

Exercise 7. Custom authoring features

Duration: 1 hour

Overview In this exercise, you work with inline editing and custom authoring systems.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Customize the editor, user roles, and portal pages
 Define authoring system access strategies and roles and access rights
 Perform inline editing

Unit 8. Working with drafts, workflows, and projects

Duration: 1 hour

Overview This unit covers change management, working with drafts, the IBM Web Content Manager
workflow, and projects.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Work with draft items
 Create and use a workflow
 Create and use a project

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Exercise 8. Working with drafts, workflows, and projects
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you learn how to work with drafts and workflows, and how to create projects.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Create and work with a project template
 Assign approvers or a project
 Work with draft items
 Publish items
 Use projects effectively
 Create content by using a project
 Create a navigator
 Create workflow, workflow actions, and workflow stages
 Process a content item through a workflow

Unit 9. User access and security

Duration: 45 minutes

Overview This unit covers access controls and portal, library, portlet, pages, and item security.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Restrict access to a page
 Restrict access to individual items
 Restrict access to a section of your site framework

Exercise 9. User access and security

Duration: 45 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you add confidential core items, test the access controls, create confidential
content, display confidential content, and test page access controls.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Access control layers and control settings
 Manage users and groups in Portal
 Define roles within a library
 Define Web Content Manager roles
 Manage security

Unit 10. IBM Web Content Manager content tags

Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Overview This unit explains the IBM Web Content Manager content tags in detail.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Understand IBM Web Content Manager content tags
 Display content and components on an IBM Web Content Manager page

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Unit 11. Content acquisition
Duration: 1 hour

Overview This unit covers Web Content Integrator, WebDAV, and Content Management Interoperability
Services.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Use Web Content Integrator to create new content items
 Use WebDAV to import a set of images
 Use Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS)
 Describe the capabilities that are provided by IBM Digital Data Connector (DDC) for
WebSphere Portal

Unit 12. Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) in IBM Web Content Manager
Duration: 30 minutes

Overview This unit explains how to store custom files to IBM Web Content Manager and how to reference
Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) files in presentation templates and components.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Add custom files to IBM Web Content Manager
 Reference CSS files in presentation templates and components

Exercise 10. Adding CSS to your website

Duration: 30 minutes

Overview In this exercise, you explore how to add custom CSS to your website.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Create a site area to store CSS content items
 Create an authoring template for CSS
 Create a presentation template for CSS
 Reference CSS content items

Unit 13. Content Template Catalog (CTC) and Site Builder

Duration: 30 minutes

Overview This unit explains how to use the patterns available in the Content Template Catalog (CTC) V4.3
and use Site Builder to create a customized templated site management solution for business
users.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Describe the capabilities of CTC and Site Builder
 Identify the components in CTC
 Use CTC and Site Builder to build websites
 Work with page template, portlet, content, and drafts

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Exercise 11. Working with Content Template Catalog (CTC) and Site Builder
Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes

Overview This exercise explains how to use the patterns available in Content Template Catalog V4.3 (CTC)
and the wizards in Site Builder to create a customized templated site management solution for
business users. In this exercise, you are guided through some of the capabilities of Site Builder.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Use Site Builder to build a site with the Home Page Template
 Use Site Builder to build a site with the Internet Site Template
 Customize a size
 Create and publish a project

Exercise 12. Working with the IBM Mobile Preview

Duration: 30 minutes

Overview This exercise explains how to use the IBM Mobile Preview for Digital Experience Software to
view targeted content for a mobile device by using the Mobile Browser Simulator.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Install the IBM Mobile Preview
 Use the Mobile Browser Simulator
 Create segments with personalization
 Create and publish a project
 Add targeted content to a spot

Unit 14. Introduction to the IBM Script Portlet

Duration: 1 hour

Overview This unit is an introduction to how to use the Script Portlet 1.3. You learn about the features of
the Script Portlet and how to build applications by using the browser-based Script Portlet Editor.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Build applications by using the Script Portlet Editor
 Push and import applications from external editors to the Script Portlet
 Download and install the Script Portlet
 Add an empty Script Portlet to a page
 Download and install Script Portlet samples

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 Exercise 13. Using the IBM Script Portlet
Duration: 1 hour

Overview In this exercise, you install the Script Portlet 1.3 and work with some of its features such as the
Script Portlet Editor and sp command-line tools. You create a script portlet application with the
editor and place it on a page. You also learn how to import existing applications into the Script
Portlet Editor and push applications to the server.

Learning objectives After completing this exercise, you should be able to:
 Install the Script Portlet
 Create a script portlet application with the Script Portlet Editor
 Create an empty page and place the application on the page
 Import an existing application into the Script Portlet Editor
 Use the sp push command to push an application to the server

Unit 15. Course summary

Duration: 15 minutes

Overview This unit summarizes the course and provides information for future study.

Learning objectives After completing this unit, you should be able to:
 Explain how the course met its learning objectives
 Access the IBM Training website
 Identify other IBM Training courses that are related to this topic
 Locate appropriate resources for further study

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