Web content creation features

After designing and building your Web Content Management item you can start creating content in the form of components and elements.

• Writing links to Web Content Management content

  Links to content items can be written as URLs.

• Contextual linking

  Contextual linking is used in systems where content from one site is shared across multiple sites. When content is linked into a site, embedded links (link elements and links in HTML) will reference site the original content item is located in. Contextual linking is used so that when content is linked from another site, the link will be rendered relative to the current site if possible.

• Use style sheets in items

  Style sheets can be used to format the look and feel of IBM Lotus Web Content Management pages in the same way as normal Web Pages.

• Use custom caching

  You can overrule the default caching parameters of a site by using "cache" and "expire" parameters in URLs and IBM Lotus Web Content Management tags.

• Work with authoring tools components in the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer

  When rendering authoring tool components in the JSR 286 Web Content Viewer, account for some changes in the way placeholder tags are specified and in the way users navigate to pages containing authoring tool components. Authoring tasks accessed through a JSR 286 Web Content Viewer, such as inline editing, require the use of an instance of the IBM Lotus Web Content Management authoring portlet that is reserved specifically for such tasks.

• URL generation using PathCmpnt and URLCmpnt tags

  There are some special considerations to keep in mind when using URLCmpnt and PathCmpnt tags to create URLs to other Web content items from within your content.

• Personalizing federated documents

  Portal Personalization provides the federated documents feature to retrieve metadata about documents stored in external content management systems or document repositories, such as IBM Lotus Quickr, IBM DB2 Content Manager, or IBM FileNet Content Manager. You can use a personalization component in IBM Lotus Web Content Management to display metadata from federated documents and to create links that can be used to download or open the documents.

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Web Content Management concepts

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