OpenWGA 7.9 - OpenWGA Concepts and Features

Content type (contenttype)

A content type defines a type of content document that is meant for a special purpose. It defines a lot of behaviours that content documents of this type should share, like the design by which it is rendered (when called directly by URL), its approval workflow, the positions that it may have in page hierarchy or who may create and edit documents of this type in the first place.

Content documents are not directly assigned a content type. Instead their struct entry determines the content type in its metadata field "contenttype". Therefor all content documents on one page share the same content type.

Access key: "name" f.E. "standard"

Document key: "contenttype/name" f.E. "contenttype/standard"

innerLayout, outerLayout: A 1:n relation to all WebTML modules of the name stored in those metadata fields. As there may be multiple WebTML modules of the same name with differing media keys this is no direct 1:1 relation.

Name	Role	Data type	Contents
allowedchildpages		List of strings	If metadata field "childpagerestrictions" is "fixDocTypes" this field contains names of content types that are allowed as child pages of pages of the current content type.
allowedpositions		List of strings	Detail information about the positioning restriction for this content type defined in metadata field "positioning". Contents is dependent on this setting.
authoring		Boolean	Denotes if this content type should be available to regular authoring in authoring clients. False will only allow its usage for manager users.
childpagerestrictions		String	Defines restrictions to child pages of pages having this content type. Allowed values are: "all" - Any child page allowed (default) "none" - No child pages allowed "fixDocTypes" - Only child pages of special content types allowed. Metadata field "allowedchildpages" contains the names of those content types.
created		Date	Date/time of creation of this document
descriptionaliases		List of strings	Variants of metadata field "description" in various languages. The entries contain a language code and the description in that language, divided by a pipe symbol "|"
editors	Authorisation	List of strings	Users, groups and roles that are allowed to create and edit content documents of this type.
eventcreatecontent		String	TMLScript code that is executed as event when a new content document of this type is created. May contain a prefix "tmlscript/".
eventsavecontent		String	[TMLScript code that is executed as event when a content document is to be saved imminently. May contain a prefix "tmlscript/".
eventworkflowmail		String	[TMLScript code that is executed as event when a workflow mail is to be sent imminently. May contain a prefix "tmlscript/".
innerlayout	Foreign	String	The Name of WebTML modules that represents the inner layout by which content documents of this type are rendered.
lastmodified		Date	Date/time of last modification of this document
name	Access	String	The unique name of this content type
namealiases		List of strings	Variants of metadata field "name" in various languages, only for display purposes. The entries contain a language code and the name in that language, divided by a pipe symbol "|"
outerlayout	Foreign	String	The Name of WebTML modules that represents the outer layout by which content documents of this type are rendered.
pastauthors		List of strings	Users that have saved this document in the past. The entries correspond to those in field "pasteditdates", i.e. list elements with the same index belong to the same saving event.
pasteditdates		List of dates	Date/times tthis document has been saved in the past. The entries correspond to those in field "pastauthors", i.e. list elements with the same index belong to the same saving event.
positioning		String	Defines the allowed positions for pages of this content type. The contents of metadata field "allowedpositions" is dependent on this. Allowed values are: "all" - Any position. Metadata field "allowedpositions" is empty. "root" - Only on root pages. Metadata field "allowedpositions" is empty. "child" - Only on child pages. Metadata field "allowedpositions" is empty. "fixParentDocs" - Only under special parent pages. Metadata field "allowedpositions" contains the struct keys of those pages. "fixDocTypes" - Only under parent pages with special content types. Metadata field "allowedpositions" contains the names of those content types.
preferredparent		String	Struct key of a page that is the preferred parent page for pages of this type. This may be used by authoring clients that allow no explicit positioning.
revision		Integer	Counts the times that this document has been saved
workflow		String	Name of an approval workflow that content documents of this types must pass before being released. May be empty to allow immediate release.