This document outlines an agenda for a presentation on building virtual navigation structures for the Nuxeo platform. The presentation will demonstrate how virtual navigation can help users find information more easily by organizing documents based on their properties rather than physical location. It will show how to create virtual navigation entries using documents' metadata, build listings with content views, and allow user customization through smart folders. The goal is to spend less time searching and be more productive.

1. Building Virtual
Navigation
Structures for the
Nuxeo Platform
Julie Allouch
Bertrand Chauvin

2. Agenda (1/2)
Why you need virtual navigation and how it can
help
Demo - Navigating through your documents
using a customized instance
Behind the scenes – Leverage your documents'
properties to create your own virtual navigation
structures
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3. Agenda (2/2)
Behind the scenes – Key points we will cover
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Creating virtual navigation entries
Using content views to create virtual documents
listings
Let your users take control with smart folders
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4. Why and how it helps
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5. Getting the right information...
...at the right time, is essential
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Different users have different needs and
different browsing habits
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Your content evolves with time
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Spend less time searching, be more productive
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6. Let's See How It Works !
Life At A Documentation
Center
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7. Behind the scenes
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8. Understanding the Nuxeo
document concept
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9. A Document In Nuxeo
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Is not « just a file »
A document contains
many properties
• meta data, grouped
into schemas
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But also facets
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And a life cycle
Nuxeo lets you leverage
these properties and query
through them.
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10. Nuxeo Studio
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11. Nuxeo Studio
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Direct access via Connect portal, 30 days free trial
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Studio produces no compiled code, XML only.
Your local Nuxeo instance connects to Studio, retrieves
the configuration made online and deploys it automatically
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Upwards compatibility guarantee. Build once, keep it
forever
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12. Use Case 1/
Defining Our First Virtual
Navigation entries

13. Virtual Navigations - Principles
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Virtual navigation entries search your documents
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On a meta data,
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By comparing it to a predefined entries list (a vocabulary)
Using virtual navigation, we don't care where the
document is located
They are created in two steps
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Fetching the right documents
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Displaying the results with the relevant information

14. The Result

15. How Is It Done ?
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16. Questions ?
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17. Use Case 2/
Using Content Views To Create
Virtual Documents Listings

18. Content Views - Principles
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And what if we want to show a documents listing without
having to resort to a vocabulary ? Then we can use a
content view.
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Content views are everywhere into the platform
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Content views display the result of a query

19. The Result
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20. How Is It Done ?
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21. Questions ?
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22. Use Case 3/
Smart Folders: Let Your Users
Take Control
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23. Smart Folders - Principles
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Their goal ?
• Generating a dynamic documents listing
• Based on the meta data filled for a document
Smart folders combine :
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A document's meta data
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And a content view

24. The Result
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25. How Is It Done ?
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26. Questions ?
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27. Thank You For Attending !
Bertrand Chauvin – Trainer, Nuxeo France
e-mail: bchauvin@nuxeo.com
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