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.

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.

Fig. [workplace_statusbar]: Statusbar of the workplace

Views of the traditional workplace

We describe the views of the workplace in separate topics. The views are