OrchestraCMS 301 - Development Concepts
This course is intended for customer resources, that are responsible for the planning and development of OrchestraCMS powered websites, intranets and/or community sites. This course covers the components required to create custom page and content templates for use with OrchestraCMS.
Who in your organization should attend this course?
- Web Developers
- Site Designers
- Users responsible for structure of pages, styling and scripting.
Delivery Modes Available
- Workbook for self directed training:
- One hour overview online with Stantive's instructor,
- Complete the workbook at your own pace, within 30 days,
- Email access to Stantive's instructor during the 30 days for questions,
- One hour Q&A session review post workbook.
- Online with remote meeting software with Stantive instructor:
- Sixteen hours delivered as a presentation,
- May be broken into smaller sessions,
- Session can be recorded and made available post training.
- Onsite delivery of the course by a Stantive instructor.
- Two days, onsite instructor guided completion of the workbook provided.
Each delivery mode includes access to a thirty day trial Salesforce Organization preconfigured for use with the exercise workbooks for each attendee. Course workbooks are provided as PDFs, in English only.
Pre-requisites
- Experience with website development (CSS, Javascript...)
- Salesforce administration experience.
- Completion of OrchestraCMS 101 - User Fundamentals course
- Salesforce development experience (Visualforce, Apex...)
Course Overview
| Topics Covered | What you will learn |
|---|---|
| OrchestraCMS overview |
How OrchestraCMS manages content, pages, media and sites. |
| Salesforce Static Resources |
Use CSS and javascript files from Salesforce static resources or via a content delivery network. |
| Creating Page Templates |
Creating a visualforce page for use as a page template within OrchestraCMS. Configuration options and considerations for implementing page templates. |
| Creating Custom Content Templates |
Creating custom content templates with Apex classes and visualforce pages. Enabling custom content in OrchestraCMS. Using the Content Template Creator utility. |
| Using Force.com IDE and Development Tools |
Demonstration of tools that can be used to manage your code outside of OrchestraCMS and Salesforce. |
| OrchestraCMS Caching |
How OrchestraCMS implements caching. Development considerations impacted by OrchestraCMS caching. |
| Development Best Practices |
Considerations to accommodate for when developing for OrchestraCMS. |
| Performance Best Practices |
Considerations for optimizing your code for use with OrchestraCMS. |
| Dynamic Content |
Implementing OrchestraCMS rest proxy for dynamic content. |
| Development Process | Deploying projects from one environment to another. |