Glossary

On this page, all articles in the documentation which are tagged with the keyword "glossary" are listed. The glossary should contain articles, which describes elements of CONTENIDO.

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  Action — An action is a name for a certain task that should be performed when requesting a page in the CONTENIDO backend.
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  Area — An area is a name for a set of scripts that should be executed when a certain subnavigation item is clicked.
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  Article — An article is actually the page of the website.
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  Article — An article is actually the page of the website and belongs to one client.
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  Category — A category is the logical division of the website.
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  Category — A category is the logical division of the website and belongs to one client.
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  Category tree — The category tree is a hierarchic definition of categories and its children in a Client.
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  Chain — A chain is a registered hook in the code, which executes external callbacks with a given amount of parameters to affect the systems behaviour.
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  Client — A client represents a complete web page in the system. Client is a systemwide ressource.
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  Container — A container is a markup element in a layout. It serves as a placeholder for a module that can be inserted using a template. Container is a systemwide ressource.
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  Content type — A content type in CONTENIDO is a place where authors can enter or select data to be displayed in the frontend.
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  Cronjob — A cronjob is a script that will be executed by cron, a time-based job scheduler in Unix-like operating systems. This features allows you to execute system calls in regular intervals for example checking your emails every 5 minutes.
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  Frame — The CONTENIDO backend is divided into several frames.
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  Layout — Layouts contain the whole static (X)HTML markup of a clients frontend page.
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  Module — A module is the most essential component of the frontend. It contains all logic to display editable or static content on the web page.Module is a client ressource.
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  Module translation — With a module translation you can translate certain parts of your module for all existing frontend languages.
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  Navigation — The navigation consists of the main- and subnavigation.
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  Plugin — A plugin is a separate package with additional functionality for CONTENIDO which mostly is added to the backend. Plugins are systemwide ressources.
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  Plugin manager — The plugin manager is a new web interface in the backend to easily manage, install and activate plugins to extend the functionality of CONTENIDO.
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  Property — Properties allow to store simple values that can be used e.g. for configuring the behaviour of modules, plugins or even the core. Property  is a client ressource.
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  Template — A template connects the dynamic output of Modules with the whole markup located in the layouts by using their containers. Template is a client ressource.