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A global overview of Structured Document

Presentation

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The origins of the product

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Concepts

What exactly Structured Document brings to you

The main idea behind Structured Document is to build up pages by piling content elements. Out of the box, Structured Document proposes two levels of construction.

Everything starts at level zero : that is the Structured Document. Inside, you're invited to add items. These items, in this context, will be called "chapters", a.k.a our first level. Inside each of these chapters, if you're allowed to, you'll be able to create items : in this context, we'll call them paragraphs, a.k.a our second and last level. To summarize, a Structured Document is made of : 

 Structured Document
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 |_ Chapters
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    |_ Paragraphs

What's so new in this ? Well, this behavior is standard. What's new is the Structured Document's view. It will list all the content your creating in it on a single page. On top of that, you'll be able to display a table of contents listing the chapters and giving a direct access to them. And, in order to build very rich rendering, Structured Document offers the possibility to add embedded portlets.

Customizing a document

Structured Document is meant to bring a lot of feature without invading your portal. When using Structured Document, you will be dealing almost only with standard Plone items. This means : you'll be able to build up your pages with all the existing Plone content types of your portal !