The traditional workplace is somehow the "back office" of OpenCms. It provides two main views:
- Explorer view on the VFS
- Administration view, a GUI for most administrative tasks.
The workplace typically has not to be used for content editing or structuring of a website. Therefore, use the ADE editors. But, the template developer and also the system administrator will have to work with the traditional workplace.
1 Overview on the traditional workplace
The traditional workplace can be reached via the context menu of the page or the sitemap editor choosing "Show workplace".
It has two main views that have an identical menu bar that looks (in the default configuration) as follows:
Items of the default workplace' menu bar
- Project
Allows you to switch the project.
- Publish
Allows you to publish resources
- Queue
Allows you to view the publish queue.
- Site
Allows you to select the site.
- View
Allows you to switch between Explorer and Administration view.
- Reload
Allows you to reload the Explorer/Administration view.
- Preferences
Allows you to configure the user-specific, mostly workplace related, settings.
- Help
Shows you the integrated help.
- Exit
Log out and redirect to the system's login page.
Additionally to the menu bar, a status bar is displayed at the workplace view's bottom. By default, it displays status information.
