CommonSpot Training: CommonSpot 4.x for Developers

This three-day course takes you through the best practices for customizing a website developed using the CommonSpot Content Management Server 4.x from Paperthin, Inc.

Price: $1,995.00
GSA Price: $1,995.00

Students should have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience:

• Attend Macromedia's Fast Track to ColdFusion course or equivalent
• Attend Paperthin's CommonSpot for Content Contributors course or equivalent
• Minimum of 3 months ColdFusion development experience

Upon completion of this course, student should be able to:

• Build a custom login page
• Configure a custom color pallette
• Use CommonSpot environment variables effectively
• Understand the nuances of the "Base Template"
• Create custom rendering handlers for CommonSpot Elements
• Create Page Rendering Handlers
• Create a facility for "Print Versions" of Pages
• Use CommonSpot Metadata facilities to link pages to relational databases
• Create CommonSpot extensions that reference the CommonSpot relational data schema
• Creating custom objects
• Understanding Clustering and Replication
• Export CommonSpot data to other programs, including RSS blog's

Introduction

• About this training guide
• Course prerequisites
• Course topics
• Documentation conventions
• Where to find more information

Unit 1: Installing and Configuring CommonSpot

• Configuring ColdFusion Server
• Defining a CommonSpot site
• Configuring Verity K2
• Relocating, reconfiguring and verifying your site information

Unit 2: Designing and Buidling Templates

• Examining an HTML site for template creation
• Creating the base template
• Working with templates

Unit 3: Render Handlers

• Creating Printer-Friendly and Email-Friendly Versions of a Template
• Page Render Handlers
• Element Render Handlers

Unit 4: Custom Elements

• Creating and Defining a Custom Element
• Using elements for Personalization
• Field masks
• Custom Field Types
• Using the Query by Example element

Unit 5: CommonSpot Security

• Setting permissions at the site/subsite levels
• Applying security to templates
• Applying security to elements
• Securing site resources

Unit 6: Stylesheets

• Creating the Halcyon Style
• Applying stylesheets to a template
• Applying stylesheet styles

Unit 7: Metadata

• Creating metadata forms
• Using Metadata to customize a page index
• Using Metadata for Page Rendering
• Accessing metadata from a custom ColdFusion script

Unit 8: Approving Content

• Establishing an approval process
• Navigating the approval process

Unit 9: Advanced Development

• Creating and registering a datasheet column handler
• Extending CommonSpot with ColdFusion
• Exporting Custom Element Data
• Using iFrames
• Techniques for Identifying and Rectifying Performance Bottlenecks
• Using the CommonSpot API

Unit 10: Fusetalk (optional)

• Installing Fusetalk
• Configuring Fusetalk
• Deploying Fusetalk