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Training

The SR2 Prep-Pack is a combined training and user package that is bundled with the base SR2 Solution. The Prep-Pack includes 4-days onsite customer training for End users, Administrators, and Developers.  Included with the training is five named user licenses.

Training Courses:

  • Business User Content Creator Training - a course that takes you through the basics of using SR2 concentrating on how a content creator manages their day-to-day content requirements. The course covers general terminology as well as hands on training consisting of how to create and manage content within SR2.
  • Administrator Training - a course that takes you through the best practices for setting up and administering your site's Content Domains, users, roles, and workflows.
  • Developer Training - a course that goes over best practices for configuring, deploying, and customizing a websites and applications developed using the SR2 Content Management Server.

Business User Content Creator Training

This course takes you through the basic of using SR2 concentrating on what SR2 is, general terminology used in SR2, and how to create and manage content within SR2. This course is a prerequisite for SR2 Administrator and SR2 Developer training courses.

Course Prerequisites

The overview training requires only basic computer skills.

The SR2 Process

Developing content with SR2 is similar to the way you develop any corporate document. For example, a typical document development process might follow these steps:

  1. A writer creates a draft.
  2. The writer then passes the draft to a reviewer.
  3. The reviewer reads the draft and makes suggestions and corrections, then gives it back to the writer.
  4. The writer corrects the draft and gives it to an editor.
  5. The editor reviews it for grammar, punctuation, consistency, adherence to the corporate style guide, etc. The editor gives it back to the writer to make the necessary adjustments.
  6. The writer makes the changes and passes the document to someone (for example, a Director) to approve.
  7. The Director reviews the document and gives it the person in the publishing role to publish.
  8. The document is made available to its intended audience; for example, by printing a brochure or updating a website.

Without SR2, such a process often involves making paper copies for reviewers and hand-delivering them. In addition, during step 5 it is typical for other departments (such as IT) to be involved because files that reside on the company's website must be replaced. Sometimes this means that changes must wait hours (or even days) until it's convenient, fortunately with SR2 all of your resources are maximized

With SR2, the base process doesn't change. However, it can all take place electronically, automatically, and immediately without requiring outside technical assistance. The keys to the increased efficiency are SR2's implementation and enforcement of roles and workflows and its use of Content Domains.

With SR2 installed with roles and workflows implemented to mirror your company's processes and use the tools you are used to using like MS Word, Dreamweaver, or FrontPage.

Administrator Training

This course takes you through the best practices for administrating a website developed using the SR2 Content Management Server. This course is a prerequisite for the SR2 Developer training course.

Course Prerequisites

Students should have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience:

  1. SR2 overview training 
  2. Basic database experience

Overview

System administration of SR2 consists of setting up your site's content domains, users, roles, and workflows, as discussed within the SR2 overview training.

Course Objectives

Administer Users, Roles

  • Define Asset Types
  • Create workflows
  • Configure custom WYSIWYG style sheets

Course Outline

Unit 1: SR2 Administration - Security

  • Setting permissions at the site/subsite levels
  • Applying security to templates
  • Securing site resources

Unit 2: SR2 Administration - Users, Roles and Workflows

  • Analyze user groups and determine roles
  • Configure roles permissions and program rights
  • Configure workflows
  • Explore the many-to-one relationship between workflows and Asset types

Unit 3 - Configuration Asset Types - Part I

  • Set up Asset Types and workflows to manage configuration settings of components
  • Set up custom Asset Type and workflow to manage configuration settings of template layouts
  • Set up custom Asset Type and workflow to manage rotating images

Developer Training

This course takes you through the best practices for configuring, deploying, and customizing a website developed using the SR2 Content Management Server.

Course Prerequisites

Students should have completed the following courses or have equivalent experience:

  1. Intermediate knowledge of HTML, DHTML, JavaScript and understanding of web processes and paradigms.
  2. Intermediate skill level of one of the following (Active Server Pages, Java Server Pages, PHP, ColdFusion Markup Language). Intermediate skill level requires knowledge of the following, in the chosen language:
    • String manipulation including conversion from CSV to data structure (array, hashtable,
    • dictionary object, etc.).
    • Retrieval of Querystring parameters, and form get/post data, state management (session,
    • application, request, page). 
    • Ability to create useable code including (creating classes, structures, include files, custom functions, etc.)
  4. SR2 overview training
  5. SR2 administrator training
  6. Comprehensive review of the SR2 technical whitepapers and developer's overview.

Course Objectives

Understanding of Content Assets CMS versus Document-centric CMS

  • Understand data modeling of Content Assets
  • Understand web display components including component scope and component behavior
  • Understand templates, layouts, components, and assets.
  • Understand of navigation display components
  • Re-create "Trust-Financial" website using programming language of choice
  • Create a facility for 'print Versions' of pages
  • Use SR2 Metadata facilities to link pages to relational databases
  • Understand the SR2 relational database
  • Understand how to integrate SR2 with most third-party products

Course Outline

Unit 1: Data Modeling Analysis and Content Asset Creation

  • Examining website for different content asset types
  • Creating asset types and data capture screens

Unit 2: Metadata

  • Understanding metadata, what it is and isn't
  • Exploring metadata and taxonomy
  • Using metadata as display configuration

Unit 3: Display Templates

  • Examining an HTML site for template creation
  • Working with templates - 101
  • Coding templates with SR2 preview and compare in mind
  • Creating printer-friendly and email-friendly versions of a template

Unit 4: Custom Components

  • Creating and Defining a custom component
  • Defining scope and adding behavior
  • Component configuration - enabling within SR2

Unit 5: - Advanced Techniques - Configuration Asset Types - Part II

  • Create components to use configuration settings stored in an asset
  • Create component to use configuration settings to manage rotating images
  • Create components with complex behaviors including layout managers

Unit 6: - Advanced Techniques - Syndication

  • Cross-content domain distribution
  • Syndication - JavaScript
  • RSS feeds