CQ 5.3 Documentation

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Unique Concepts
Explains the concepts behind CQ and describes the unique characteristics of this Web platform.

Technology Stack
An introduction to the Sling, Jackrabbit and Felix Apache projects, and the JCR Java Content Repository.

Applications and Features
Solutions provided by the CQ platform.

Author and Publish environments
CQ environments and how they interact.

Scalability and High Availability
Caching, clustering and load balancing.

Accessibility
CQ and the Web Accessibility Guidelines.

Development Environments
Suggested tools and best practices.

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CQ can be configured in a variety of ways to provide integration, scalability, and high-availability.

To ensure smooth operation you should perform regular maintenance and updates, monitor normal operations and adjust your installation to changing circumstances.

• Installing Author & Publish instances 
• Upgrading from earlier versions
• Technical requirements
• Starting and stopping CQ
• Accessing CRX, CQSE and the Web Console
• Persistence Managers & Databases
• Deploying with an application server
• Running as Windows Service
• Changing port numbers
• Checklist
• Troubleshooting
• Upgrading CQ 5.3 to a CRX 2.1 Repository
  

• Changing default passwords
• OSGi configuration
• OSGi Configuration in the Repository
• Configuring Version Purging
• Configuring LDAP
• Configuring Single Sign On
• Optimizing Performance
• CQ Application Clustering
• Dispatcher
• Replication Agents
• CQ as Portlet inside a Portal
• Resource Mapping
• Checklist

• Regular maintenance 
• Performance monitoring
• Working with Logs
• Making a backup of the software
• Backing up your repository
• Monitoring your replication agents

• Typical phases of a CQ project
• Planning your CQ Deployment
• Planning for integration with external systems

• Building up your knowledge of CQ
• Checklists

• Types of tests
• Defining test cases to prove the deployment is successful
• Acceptance and Sign-Off

The basics of connecting to CQ and finding your way around CQ's graphical user interface.

The fundamentals on creating and managing pages and all content, including digital assets.

Describes how to publish content to your website and how to restore previous versions of content.

• Authoring in CQ WCM - The Basics
• Overview of the CQ WCM GUI
• Page Information
• Templates
• Sidekick, Edit, Design and Preview Modes
• Components
• Content Finder
• Rich Text Editor
• Asset Dialog
• Web Syndication Feeds
• Keyboard Shortcuts

• Creating a new page
• Editing a page
• Find and replace
• Copying pages
• Moving or renaming a page
• Deleting a page
• Creating a new page version
• Comparing with a previous version
• Restoring a previous version
• Setting page properties
• Working with components
• Available components

• Activating content
• Deactivating content
• Timed activation
• Determining the page publication status
• Activating a complete section of your website
• Locking pages
• Unlocking pages
• Restoring pages

Tuning your content to the interests of specific visitors ensure that you convey your message, while they receive the information they need. Various features in CQ enable you to do this.

Scaffolding makes it easy for authors to quickly create multiple pages that share the same structure.

CQ offers simple, social tagging and taxonomy management. Here is what you need to know about creating, managing, and working with tags.

• Creating a Campaign
• Multivariate Testing

• How Scaffolding Works
• Creating a Scaffold

• Some basic facts about tagging in CQ
• Tag Clouds
• Assigning Tags using the Sidekick
• Managing Tags using the Tag Administration console

• CQ DAM overview
• CQ DAM supported formats 
• How to upload assets using WebDAV
• How to upload assets using the graphical user interface
• CQ DAM performance guidelines
• CQ DAM vs. CQ MediaLibrary

• Applying workflows to digital assets
• Organizing assets
• Adding tags to assets
• Managing individual assets
• Using versioning with digital assets
• Deleting assets
• Copying assets
• Moving or renaming assets
• Activating or deactivating assets
• Overriding binaries
• DAM media handlers

• Viewing asset details
• Viewing assets in the DAM Finder
• Viewing assets in Cooliris
• Editing images
• Editing asset metadata
• Creating thumbnails
• Downloading assets

• Searching for assets in the Content Finder
• Searching for assets in a customized DAM Finder page
• Using the DAM Finder

• Creating and configuring the Asset Editor
• Creating and configuring an Asset Share (DAM Finder) page
• Customizing and Extending CQ DAM

• Editing digital asset metadata
• Metadata overview
• Metadata types
• Metadata schemata
• Encoding standards
• Metadata-driven workflows

Provides detailed information and procedures for the efficient handling of content, including replicating, tagging, using content tools, and importing/exporting content.

Covers how to manage users and groups in order to provide them with the appropriate rights necessary to perform various functions.

Workflows control a series of actions on pages or digital assets that support any editorial process. Using the visual drag-and-drop workflow designer, you can easily define workflows, be they simple or advanced.

• Using the Bulk Editor
• Using the Feed Importer
• Handling Content Packages
• Importing documents generated offline
• Exporting content and creating backups
• Validating external links
• Configuring automatic emails for account activities
• Tagging
• Replication and Replication Agents
• Replication from Author to Publish
• Replication from Publish to Author
• The Clickstream Cloud
• Configuring the Rich Text Editor
• CQ Portals and Portlets

• Authentication and Authorization
• Accessing user and group management (Security Console)
• Default users and groups
• Creating users and groups
• Deleting users and groups
• Changing user passwords
• Permissions and Privileges
• Page access permissions
• Actions and Access Control Lists
• Functionality access privileges
• Replication privileges
• Impersonating another user
• Best practices
• Closed User Groups

• Authorization needed for working with workflows
• The Workflow Console
• The types of workflow steps available
• Predefined workflow processes
  
• Creating a workflow model
• Creating a workflow
• Editing a workflow
• Starting a workflow for an individual page
• Suspending, resuming, and terminating the workflow
• Using the Workflow Launcher for node modifications
• DAM Media Handlers
• Workflow Packages

CQ's social collaboration tools offer extended user profiles, blogs, and calendars that are fully integrated into the CQ5 Web Content Management platform.

Personalization provides your users with a customized environment that displays dynamic content selected according to their specific needs.

Multi-Site Management handles multilingual and multinational content, helping your company balance centralized branding with localized content.

• Blogs
• Wiki
• Calendars and Events
• Managing Social Collaboration Profiles
• Moderating Social Collaboration Sites
• Creating a Newsletter
• How to set an Akismet key

• What is Personalization?
• Strengths and points to consider
• Personalization and Access
• Components available for Personalization
• Personalization and Social Collaboration

• Use cases for multi-site management
• Managing different language versions of a website
• Managing the translation of your language branches
• What are blueprints and live copies?
• Creating a live copy
• Synchronizing a blueprint and live copy
• Rolling out changes
• Live copy status at page and at paragraph level
• Managing blueprints and live copies
• Moving blueprint and live copy pages

Analytics form the basis for gaining insights into how your website is being used by visitors and therefore, how it is serving your business. Several sources of information are available within CQ.

As all information is already resident within the repository many reports can be generated for your CQ instance. Default reports are provided, customized reports can easily be developed.

• Segmentation
• External Providers

• Disk Usage
• User Report
• Workflow Overview

• Prerequisites for developing with CQ
• Java Content Repository
• CRX and Jackrabbit
• Sling Request Processing
• Templates
• Components
• Bundles and the OSGi framework
• Development Objects in CQ
• The structure within the repository
• Authentication and Authorization
• Publish and Author environments
• The Dispatcher
• FileVault
• Workflows
• Multi-Site Management
• Keyboard Shortcuts

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Development tools for CQ
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Getting acquainted with CQ based development.

CQ Developer Guidelines and Best Practices
Ensure your implementation is robust and maintainable.

Data Modelling
How to model content in a content repository.

Website and Web application development
Building a new project, inheriting, reusing and extending existing functionality.

• CQ tag libraries
• CQ server API
• CQ widget API
• Java API Reference
• Sling API
• Sling docs
• Sling wiki
• Sling cheatsheet
• CRX server API
• Jackrabbit API
• Jackrabbit docs
• Jackrabbit wiki
• OSGi™ Service Platform API
• Felix docs
• Felix wiki
• JCR 1.0 API spec (JSR-170)
• JCR 1.0 API
• JCR 2.0 API spec (JSR-283)
• JCR 2.0 API
  

Looks at the various tools, from both Day and third parties, available to configure an optimal development environment.

Learn about developing components, which form the essential building blocks for content input with CQ.

What you need to know about templates. These allow you to define default page layouts and functionality.

• CRXDE Lite
  
• CRXDE
• FileVault Tool
• Eclipse
• IntelliJ
• WebDAV
• Site Importer
• Dialog Editor

• What are Components?
• Default Components
• How Components are structured
• Developing Components
• Scripts
• A closer look at a few of the Foundation Components
• Further development of specific Components and Tools

• What are Templates?
• Default Templates
• How Templates are structured
• Developing Page Templates

The design of your website is vital. The CQ Designer simplifies the implementation.

Certain functionality is already available within CQ but can be developed further.

What you need to know when developing your own Multi-Site Management solution.

• Using the Designer
• What you need
• Considerations when designing your Website

• Widgets in CQ
• Customizing the Bulk Editor
• Developing Workflows
• DAM Media Handlers
• Customizing and Extending CQ DAM
• The Clickstream Cloud
• Customizing Pages shown by the Error Handler

• MSM in the repository
• Extending MSM Functionality

• Before You Start
• Types of Tests
• Getting Started
• Checklists

• Which Test Environments will you need
• Defining your Test Cases
• Testing - what, when and with whom
• Compiling your Test Plan
• Tools

• Tracking Results and Providing Feedback
• Acceptance and Sign-Off
• The next release...

Defining the following phases and milestones will help simplify the implementation of a typical CQ project.

Defining quantitative measurements for the quality of your website will help ensure you fulfill your goals.

The following sources of information are listed to provide you with background information in various areas.

• Project Kick-Off
• Concept and Planning
• Technical Specification and Design
• Development and Testing
• Deployment and Training
• And then...

• Why set Target Metrics?
• Project Design
• Infrastructure
• Performance
• Concurrency
• Capacity and Volume
• Other Metrics

• Reference Architecture
• Overview of Potential Tools
• Checklists
• Examples of Task Breakdown
• Examples of Project Documentation

• Exploring CQ
  
• Deploying CQ
• Authoring Websites in CQ WCM
• Working with Digital Assets in CQ DAM
• Administering CQ
• Developing on CQ
• Testing CQ Projects
• Managing CQ Projects

• Exploring CRX
  
• Deploying CRX
• Using CRX
• Administering CRX
• Developing on CRX

• OpenText LiveLink Connector
• Vignette Connector
• Interwoven Connector
• MS Sharepoint Connector
• EMC Documentum Connector
• FileNet P8 Connector
• IBM Lotus Notes Domino Connector
• Fast to JCR Adapter
• Database Connector

CQ provides a complete suite of applications that enable organizations to optimize their online communications. All release documentation, including legacy documentation, is available.

CRX is a commercially packaged version of the Apache Jackrabbit and Sling open source projects and a powerful web application development solution. Find release documentation here.

CQ and CRX can be combined with several product modules. These modules enhance the performance of the infrastructure, make complex systems easier to manage, or enable our products to run in specific environments.

• CQ 5.3
  
• CQ 5.2
• CQ 5.2 addendum
• CQ 5.0 - 5.1
• Communiqué 4 (4.0 - 4.2)
• Communiqué 3 (3.0 - 3.5.6)
• Communiqué 2 (2.0 - 2.6)

• CRX 2.1
  
• CRX 2.0 (embedded in CQ 5.3)
• CRX 1.4.x
  
• CRX 1.4
• CRX 1.3
• CRX 1.2
• CRX 1.1
• CRX 1.0

• Advanced Content Management
  Forms, Offline Editor, WebDAV
• CQ as a portal including personalization
• CQ in Portal – Portal Director (CQ-Portlet)
• CQ Social Collab 
  Newsletter, Blog, Wiki, Calendar
• LDAP with SSO
• Multi-Site Manager (MSM)
  
• Active Clustering
• ContentBus (Virtual Repository)
• Targeting
  Segmentation, Multivariate Testing
• Digital Asset Management: CQ DAM

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