Guided tour of OpenCms

OpenCms - The Open Source content management system

OpenCms is an Open Source website content management system. Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites can be quickly and cost-effectively created, maintained and managed. OpenCms enables you to create highly customized layouts and interactive functionality.

Using OpenCms is fully browser based. The OpenCms software is installed on a web server, users access the system from any location with their web browser.

Take the guided tour

To learn more about OpenCms and it's numerous built-in features, take the guided tour that provides a birds-eye overview about the systems capabilities.

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Guided tour index

  • The Explorer view of OpenCms

    The Explorer view is designed like common file managers and shows the contents of the website. It provides all functions for editors to work on the website.

  • The Direct Edit function

    Edit each content element directly from the frontend preview by clicking on a "Direct Edit" button.

  • Structured content items

    Use custom structured content items with an underlying XML Schema Definition on your website and edit them with the integrated form based editor.

  • The WYSIWYG editor

    Editing unstructured page contents is easy with OpenCms by using the built-in WYSIWYG editor.

  • Previewing modified content

    Preview modified page contents directly from the editor by clicking on the "Preview" button without leaving the editor.

  • Offline / Online workflow

    The project mechanism of OpenCms provides an integrated workflow environment with offline "staging" and online "live" systems on the same server.

  • Advanced link management

    The OpenCms link management detects broken links and keeps internal links intact after move, rename or delete operations.

  • Integrated image processing

    The integrated image scaling and resizing allows the manipulation of commonly used image formats.

  • The Administration view

    Switch to the Administration view to perform advanced tasks like managing user accounts, configure search indexes and many more.

  • Module Management

    Use the integrated module mechanism of OpenCms that allows convenient bundling of contents or functionality for deployment on other machines.

  • Full text search engine

    Full text search in website documents like HTML pages, structured contents, office documents and many more is supported with a lot of configuration options.

  • WebDAV integration

    Full support for the WebDAV protocol is available in OpenCms to enable editing of content using external editors.

  • JSP integration

    The JSP integration in OpenCms allows easy and standards based creation of dynamic functionality for templates, dynamic forms and other use cases.

  • Further information

    Get more information about the advantages and usage of OpenCms.

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Latest News

  • Summary of the first OpenCms development Sprint

    Sep 12, 2008 - The first OpenCms Sprint was held September 9-10, 2008 in the KOMED convention center in Cologne, Germany. A total of 10 developers attended the Sprint. Results and Proceedings of the Sprint are now available for download.

  • Alkacon OCEE 2.1 substantially extends OpenCms functionality

    Aug 29, 2008 - OCEE for OpenCms offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. The latest OCEE release version 2.1 is a major update that introduces a number of new features for OpenCms 7.

  • Alkacon OAMP Comments module available

    Aug 28, 2008 - The next open source module in the Alkacon OAMP series has been released. The OAMP Comments module allows to add highly configurable blog like comment options to all template based pages in OpenCms.

  • First OpenCms Development Sprint in Cologne, Germany

    Jul 21, 2008 - Our very first OpenCms development sprint event will happen September 9 to 10, 2008 in Cologne, Germany. Sprints are a gathering of OpenCms developers who want to activly shape the future of OpenCms.