• Technical Overview
  • Overview
    • What is Jahia?
    • The closer View
    • Technical Requirements
    • Everything is Content, whatever the type or source
      • Integrator and Developer Customization
    • Integrated technologies
    • Architecture Overview
    • Modules
    • Jahia's Different Actors
  • Web Layers
    • Content Flows
    • Templates and Views
    • The Jahia Template Studio
      • Page templates
      • Content Templates
    • REST API
      • Actions
      • Example : native iPhone/iPad application
    • Mobile Rendering
    • Macros
    • Filters
  • Back-end Layer
    • Workflow
    • JBoss Drools and event listeners
    • File Repository
    • Searching and Indexing
      • Full text queries using search tag librairies
      • Query Languages
    • Enterprise Jahia Tool - Authentication and Authorization
    • Import / Export
    • Enterprise Jahia Tool - Distant Server Publications
    • Portlets
      • Portlets vs. Modules
  • Enterprise Jahia Tool - Optimizing deployment and performance
  • Additional Resources

Jahia's Different Actors

In this section we will present the different types of actors that may interact with a Jahia system, and how they relate to different activities.

Developers, integrators and webmasters will mostly interact with the studio as well as modules to create templates, modules so that the other users may use a system that has been customized to their needs. In this role, this will enable them to “lock” the look and feel of the web site, as well as the content definitions, rules or any other custom logic needed.

Webmasters and/or editors will then use the output of the previous work to populate the site with content, using the edit mode and/or the contribute mode. The Edit Mode is a very powerful content editing interface, mostly targeted at advanced users, while the Contribute Mode is an easy-to-use content editing interface aimed at basic content editors. It should also be noted that integrators are free to customize the Contribute Mode to their requirements, in order to tailor the experience for the editors. Once the editors are happy with the content, they may use the workflow to publish the modifications to the live workspace (or if they are not directly allowed to do so, they may start the review process), at which point it will be available to site visitors.

Site visitors may then browse the site, and if allowed, also input user-generated content in modules such as the forum, wiki or another other components deployed in the site.