Business content is the content with which you entertain, inform or inspire your users, through articles, images, videos, audio, image maps and many more. CoreMedia DXP 8 offers several content types which are custom-made for these different use cases:
Textual Content
For textual content, there is only one type,
Article. That does not mean, that you cannot add textual descriptions to other types, for example multimedia content. It does also not mean, that an Article contains only textual content, you can, for example, add images to anArticle.Multimedia Content
For multimedia content, such as images, video, audio there are specific content types with the corresponding names. They have special properties to store this content. Most notable is the blob property in which you store the multimedia content but there are also properties for metadata such as copyright information and more.
Commerce Content
In order to include content from your commerce system into the CMS, there are placeholder types (
e-Marketing Spot,Augmented Page,Product Teaser) to which you can drag content from the commerce system. These types hold a reference to the e-Commerce content and can be added to the site like all other contents. AProduct Teaser, for example, can be used at the same locations as aTeaser.In order to manage product information without an external commerce system, there are two content types
CategoryandProduct. You can use these types to create a product hierarchy with nested categories.Dynamic Content
Dynamic content types are a bit special. They collect other content items from the repository due to some conditions and can be used as a "placeholder" for this content. Examples are the Top-N lists from the Elastic Social extension (see Section 4.6.11, “Editing Top-N Lists”) or the Content Queries from CoreMedia Blueprint (see Section 4.4.1.5, “Creating Content Queries”).
A teaser is a short information chunk on a web page that links to a more comprehensive
description or to a larger site. Many websites use teasers on the sidebar of a page. Most of
CoreMedia content types have properties Teaser Title and Teaser
Text. When you use such a content in a "teaser" position of your website, then the
content of the teaser properties will be shown and the teaser links to the complete content.
If you use, for example, an Article in teaser position, then the teaser will always link to
this article. To create different teasers to the same content, CoreMedia DXP 8 has a
specific Teaser content type. Teaser content has again a
Teaser Title, Teaser Text and
Pictures but also Teaser Target field which holds
the link target of the teaser.
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