Guided tour of OpenCms

OpenCms - The Open Source content management system

OpenCms is an Open Source website content management system. Intranet, Extranet and Internet sites can be quickly and cost-effectively created, maintained and managed. OpenCms enables you to create highly customized layouts and interactive functionality.

Using OpenCms is fully browser based. The OpenCms software is installed on a web server while users access the system from any location with their web browser.

Take the guided tour

To learn more about OpenCms and it's numerous built-in features, take the guided tour that provides a birds-eye overview about the systems capabilities.

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Guided tour index

  • Intuitive page editor

    The OpenCms page editor offers easy and intuitive content creation, deletion and content arrangement on webpages per "drag and drop". Main features like saving, publishing and adding content are available from the page editor as well.
  • Inline content modification directly on the webpage

    Content elements can be created or modified in-place directly on the page itself without switching to a another editor view.
  • Auto generated HTML5 forms

    A form based content editor is available in order to use advanced content editing features. The form based editor offers a structured view on the content and is automatically generated from an XML schema.
  • Visual sitemap management

    The sitemap editor allows the creation and manipulation of the websites page structure. Pages can easily be dragged into and moved around in the navigation tree.
  • Searching with Apache Solr

    For better search capabilities and noSQL-like queries Apache Solr is integrated into OpenCms. Therefore OpenCms features faceted search, range-queries, synonyms as well as language detection and other powerful Solr capabilities.
  • Access the content repository over CMIS

    Since OpenCms implements the Content Management Interoperability Services (CMIS) external applications can access the content repository of OpenCms in a standardized way.
  • Content Organization

    The redesigned gallery interface ensures a much better user experience with a not yet known ease of content retrieval in OpenCms.
  • Integrated image processing

    The integrated image scaling and resizing allows the manipulation of commonly used image formats.
  • Structured content items

    Use custom structured content items with an underlying XML Schema Definition on your website and edit them with the integrated form based editor.
  • Offline / Online workflow

    The project mechanism of OpenCms provides an integrated workflow environment with offline "staging" and online "live" systems on the same server.
  • The Explorer view of OpenCms

    The Explorer view is designed like common file managers and shows the contents of the website. It provides all functions for editors to work on the website.
  • Advanced link management

    The OpenCms link management detects broken links and keeps internal links intact after move, rename or delete operations.
  • The Administration view

    Switch to the Administration view to perform advanced tasks like managing user accounts, configure search indexes and many more.
  • Module Management

    Use the integrated module mechanism of OpenCms that allows convenient bundling of contents or functionality for deployment on other machines.
  • Full text search engine

    Full text search in website documents like HTML pages, structured contents, office documents and many more is supported with a lot of configuration options.
  • JSP integration

    The JSP integration in OpenCms allows easy and standards based creation of dynamic functionality for templates, dynamic forms and other use cases.
  • Further information

    Get more information about the advantages and usage of OpenCms.

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Latest News

  • OpenCms 18 available

    Oct 8, 2024 - OpenCms 18 adds a new "Place element" mode in the page editor that allows precise element placement as an alternative to drag & drop. Reused content is now clearly marked. Automatic typographical correction of quotation marks has been added to all of the editors. “Dead links” in content that is entered in a WYSIWYG editor are now automatically disabled. Our Mercury template includes several new features, such as setting different image formats for mobile and desktop and many more.

  • OpenCms 18 Release Notes

    Oct 8, 2024 - The OpenCms 18 release notes contain detailed information about the new features and fixes in this version.

  • Alkacon OCEE 18

    Oct 8, 2024 - Alkacon OCEE 18 is the latest OCEE release for OpenCms 18. This version features a license key mechanism that allows to share the license key on several servers in a cloud installation.

  • Documentation website for the Mercury template

    Jul 8, 2024 - The Mercury template from Alkacon Software is a comprehensive, modular template based on Bootstrap 5 for OpenCms. This feature-rich template now has a complete and exhaustive documentation website.