Content projects
Contents
Content projects represent the starting point of XP’s CMS. In order to create sites and content, you first need to create a project. Project defines default permissions and other useful settings for your content and editors.
Project settings
Basics
Display name - a human readable name
Identifier - a unique id within the installation. Cannot be changed when first created
Default language - Specifies the default language for content created in the project
Access mode
Project access mode defines default read permissions for it’s content. The available values are:
Public (Everyone can read the content)
Private (only users with project roles can read the content)
Custom (a specific list of principals can be granted access to read the content, i.e. Employees)
To handle private and custom mode, a special "viewer" role is created and given read access to the content items.
Roles
To provide access to a project or manage it, users can be granted special roles. The following roles are available per project:
Contributor - Access to project and issues (must be given specific permissions to create or manage any content)
Author - Same as contributor, but can additionally create and update content anywhere in the structure
Editor - Same as Author, but with full permissions and access to rich-text editor source mode
Owner - Same as Editor, but can also manage the project settings
For each project, dedicated principal roles are created. The roles are named as follows: com.enonic.cms.project.<id>.<roletype>
An example might be com.enonic.cms.myproject.author.
Applications
Similar to how applications (and their configs) can be assigned to sites, they can also be assigned (on even a higher level) to content projects. All functionality, schemas (content types, schemas, mixins etc.) and descriptors (pages, parts, layouts) from all assigned applications will be available within the scope of the project down to a site.
| Sites override project applications. If a site should use an application already assigned to its project, you must assign the application directly to the site. |
Layers inherit applications from all parent layers and their base project.
| Sites inside the project are isolated and have no access to project’s or each other’s apps. |
Storage
Another important purpose of projecs is to strictly isolate the content from other projects. As such, each project gets a dedicated repository.
This means, that editors of a particular project will not be able to see, use or link to content within other projects.
Site engine
When accessing your content through the site engine, the project identifier is used to access the specific project. I.e. the internal path /site/myproject/draft can be used to access draft items of the project with identifier ´myproject´.
API
To programmatically manage projects, use the project API