Getting Started With Titania Delivery

Primary Concepts

Organizations

An Organization is a container for content delivery management assets. An Organization has ownership of its own Projects, Portals, and Portal Themes, and can also be granted access to Projects owned by other Organizations. An Organization's contents can be managed by multiple users.

Projects

A Project is a container where the content owner places the content they want to distribute. You can think of a Project as a virtual file system containing your files, organized into folders.

Content can be uploaded manually through the administrative web application, automatically through the Titania Delivery Client Connector SDK, or via a Client Connector to a specific CMS or other source control system. A Project's content can be shared through any number of Portals. Projects have access control rules defining the users who have access to various content and delivery management functions.

Portals

A Portal is a content delivery channel. Think of a Portal like its own website targeted at an individual audience. A Portal can pull its content from one or more Projects and filter that content using metadata rules.

Portal Themes

A Portal Theme allows you to control every aspect of the appearance of a Portal, from the HTML and CSS of the web pages themselves to the stylesheets used to convert XML content into viewable HTML.

Document Types

A Document Type is a special kind of project that contains the XML grammar definition files – DTDs and XML Schemas – that are used to parse XML content.

Metadata

Metadata provides information about the content; think of it as properties you can customize for single or multiple files. These values set on your files can be used in multiple ways to enhance the delivery of your content. See Managing Metadata for additional details.

Client Connectors

Client Connectors are optional components that can be used to synchronize content from your content management system into Titania Delivery projects automatically based on a pre-set schedule or triggered on-demand.

In the next few topics you will learn how to create organizations, projects, portals, and document types.