Developers

This section focuses on how to customize and extend Crafter CMS. It covers the basic topics you need to define a content type and render that content as part of a page, component or service. It also covers topics like building queries, accessing services and extending the core platforms.

• Crafter CMS Architecture
• Content Modeling
• Content Inheritance
• Asset Processing
• Templates
• Search
• Content Targeting
• Testing
• Errors
• Extending Crafter Studio
• Developer Workflow

Subsystems and API Documentation

Crafter CMS comprises a number of projects, below are the project specific documentations including APIs.

• Crafter CMS
• Crafter Core
• Crafter Commons
• Crafter Engine
• Crafter Studio
• Crafter Search
• Crafter Deployer
• Crafter Profile
• Crafter Social
• Crafter Marketplace

Cookbook / Tutorials

• Cookbooks / Tutorials
  • Querying Content
  • Solutions: Active Cache
  • Solutions for Activiti
  • Solutions RESTful Services
  • Create a Blueprint
  • Best Practices
  • How-Tos
  • Crafter Marketplace

Below is a short set of links to other documentation for technology that Crafter CMS leverages:

Attribute Name	Usage	Links
Spring Beans Spring MVC	Server App Framework	https://spring.io/docs
Freemarker	Server side templates	http://freemarker.org/
Groovy	Server side scripting	http://groovy-lang.org/documentation.html
Solr	Search and content query	http://lucene.apache.org/solr/resources.html
MongoDB	Crafter Profile and Social data store	https://docs.mongodb.com
GIT	Repository Implementation	https://git-scm.com/docs
RST	Documentation source format	http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html

Note

Crafter CMS is a Git-based CMS. Please note that your system’s global git ignore file (list of rules for ignoring files in every Git repository on your computer) is respected by Crafter CMS. In case you find some of your content not being committed into Crafter CMS, check your global git ignore file to verify the content you’re committing is not being ignored.