Jahia - How to - Tips and tricks

Jahia 6.0 Beta released

2009-02-04T15:41:00.003+01:00

More informations about this release can be found in the readme:

Jahia v6.0 beta "Read me"

I think to most valuable changes are:

JCR: DMS backup built on top of Jackrabbit with the possibilities to connect to third-party repositories (SMB and FTP announced, more can be added)
Google Webtoolkit integration: unification of all the Jahia 5.0 AJAX frameworks used, support for Widgets and Google gadgets
Portlets 2.0: Jetspeed and Pluto have been replaced by Pluto 2.0
New templates architecture: Defintion and presentation are finally separated. The template definition is now supporting the Compact Namespace and Node Type Definition (CND) from JCR specifications (including inheritence and mixin types)
And many more ...

There are others big changes:

A demostration Jahia 6.0 instance has also been published at http://demo.jahia.org
New Jahia Community website including a great technical overview of the product in the new Jahiapedia online Jahia documentation.
New Jahia commercial website with adapted "dual Licence Model" (now GPL supported for Jahia 6.0 CE "Community Edition" while Jahia 6.0 EE "Enterprise Edition" is still using the JSEL)

I hope this new version will help us to develop more quickly while supporting more and more standards (JSR170/283 , JSR-168/286, and many more)

Some tests, howto, tips and tricks will be published on this blog soon...

How to: Limit search in Jahia using Lucene query and Luke

2008-11-25T22:54:00.006+01:00

Here is my first screencast about Jahia that explains you how to limit/filter search in Jahia using the Lucene power and the Luke tool to build your queries.

Ps: The Lucene query is: "jahia.containerfield_newstitle:first"

Since it's my first screencast, I'm sorry for the bad english and for the quality of the screencast.
I'll do it better next try :)

Luke website: http://www.getopt.org/luke/
Lucene Query Documentation: http://lucene.apache.org/java/2_4_0/queryparsersyntax.html

How to: the official Jahia documentation 1/3

2008-11-22T17:20:00.001+01:00

Jahia published and maintains differents user guides that are all available on the Jahia Community website.

These guides are separated into three groups:

End User Guides
Developers Guides
Other guides

This first article lists and briefly explains the first type of guide:

The end user guides:

Jahia 5.0 End user guide ( en - fr ): This guide explain how to use Jahia for the four differents roles for a WCMS:

All: How to use the Jahia functionalities in general
Author: How to create and edit and publish content in Jahia
Manager: How to use and configure workflow, rights, versionning, import/export, logs
Site administrator:

How to configure once Jahia Website: Templates, users, groups, search engines, languages, distant publishing, built-in portlets, site administration delegations,...
How to deal with once Jahia Server: Jahia website life cycle, categories, applicative settings, portlets, audit logs, WYSIWYG web editors settings, caching, licenses, server administration delegation, statistics, ...

Jahia 5.0 Administration Guide ( en - fr ): This guide explains how to install and manage a Jahia solution:
- System requirements;
- Installation;
- Managing Jahia sites
- Advanced installation:
  - File system organization of the Jahia application;
  - How to configure database connection (Oracle, MySQL, PostreSQL, SQL Server, or the default HSqlDB and how to store the file and long text in the database;
  - How to implements LDAP intregration in Jahia;
  - How to configure the logging level in Jahia;
  - How to tune Tomcat for Jahia;
  - How to tune Jahia (jahia.properties configuration);
- Maintenance
- Advanced tuning: Java, database
- FAQ

Jahia - How to: What is this ?

2008-11-22T17:04:00.000+01:00

Hello everybody,

Thank you for consulting this Blog.

This blog will try to explain you how to implements some functionalities with one of the currently best Enterprise Web Content and Portal Management product: Jahia.

This blog is mainly done for developpers and technical people.

This blog will contains differents kinds of articles:

News: these articles will annouce new things as you had already understood;
How to: these articles will explain how to implements non standard functionalities with Jahia;
Tips and tricks: these short articles will show you how to do non documented things;
Others: to be defined...

This blog is unofficial and isn't under the responsability of Jahia Solution Group.