Mercury Documentation

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Please note that the “Static List” formatter must be selected for the list itself in the element settings, as the accordion display only works with this.

A special feature of accordion lists is that they do not link to a detail view. This is not necessary, as all information is already contained in the accordion.

Accordion lists are particularly suitable for FAQ entries, but also work with most other listable element types.

Man sieht die Hände einer feiernden Menschenmenge im rotem Licht. Das Wort 'Community' wird verschwommen an die Wand darüber projiziert.

The Mercury functions are described in the documentation.

The Mercury template documentation is created specifically for the OpenCms community. It describes both the basic functions of the Mercury template and customer-specific additions.

New content is added to the documentation with each new version.

Sonnenuntergang fotografiert von der linken Rheinseite. Man sieht den Kölner Dom und die Hohenzollernbrücke.

As the resting place for the remains of the Three Kings

In 1164, Rainald von Dassel, Archbishop of Cologne, brought bones from Milan to Cologne, which were regarded and worshipped as relics of the Three Kings.

These attracted many pilgrims to Cologne. Therefore, around 1225, plans were made to build Cologne Cathedral. The foundation stone was laid on August 15, 1248, by Archbishop Konrad von Hochstaden.

View from Cologne Cathedral

The construction took 632 years

Construction of the cathedral began in 1248. It was completed in 1880. In between, there was a 300-year interruption in construction from 1528 to 1823.

This is probably the longest construction period for any building after the Great Wall of China.

Man sieht eine feiernden Menschenmenge auf einer Tanzfläche mit stimmungsvoller Beleuchtung. Im Vordergrund formt eine Person mit den Händen ein Herz.
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Ein buntes durcheinander von Farben und Pinseln

Far away, behind the mountains of words, far from the lands of vowels and consonants, live the blind texts. They live secluded in Letterville on the coast of Semantics, a large ocean of language.

This workshop teaches the basics of OpenCms

Far away, behind the mountains of words, far from the lands of vowels and consonants, live the blind texts. They live secluded in Letterville on the coast of Semantics, a large ocean of language. A small stream called Duden flows through their town and provides them with the necessary rules. It is a paradisiacal land where fried sentence fragments fly into your mouth. Not even the almighty punctuation rules over the blind texts - a truly unorthographic life. But one day, a small line of blind text, whose name was Lorem Ipsum, decided to go out into the wide world of grammar. The great Oxmox advised her against it, saying that it was teeming with evil commas, wild question marks, and sneaky semicolons, but the little dummy text was not to be deterred.

Cologne Cathedral from the front

The cathedral is 157 meters high

To be precise, the north tower of Cologne Cathedral is 157.38 meters high, while the south tower is 157.31 meters high.

This meant that Cologne Cathedral was actually the tallest building in the world from 1880 to 1884.

Neonlicht mit dem Schriftzug 'Pop' in Rot-Gelb auf einer bunten Glasscheibe.

A picture is worth a thousand words!

This image series from the Mercury Template documentation contains many images illustrating the features.

Woman looking through a magnifying glass
The functions of the various elements of the Mercury template are described here. For each element, there is at least one page with usage examples.
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100 years “Decker Pitter”
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A special birthday at Cologne Cathedral

The “Decke Pitter” – the Peter's Bell of Cologne Cathedral – celebrated its 100th birthday on May 5, 2023.

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Man with backpack looking up at the sky

We are hiring: Typoblindtext writer

Sometimes you use words such as Hamburgefonts, Rafgenduks, or Handgloves to test fonts. Sometimes you use sentences that contain all letters of the alphabet - these sentences are called “pangrams.” This one is very well known: The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy old dog. 

Blogger's notebook with red drink

You bring: Experience with typographic dummy text

Foreign language phrases are often incorporated into typographic dummy texts (AVAIL® and Wefox™ are testing aussi la kerning) to test the effect in other languages. In Latin, for example, almost every font looks good. Quod erat demonstrandum. Since 1975, numbers have been missing from most test texts, which is why, according to TypoGb. 204 §, numbers will become mandatory in 86 of the texts from 2034 onwards. Non-compliance will be punished with a fine of up to €245 or $368. Âçcèñtë are now just as important, but are almost always included in newer fonts. OpenType functionalities are an important but difficult field to integrate. Depending on the software and default settings, built-in small caps, kerning, or ligatures (very clever) may not be displayed correctly.

Messages without images are displayed correctly in all lists. This applies in particular to lists with masonry or text tile layouts.
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Version 23-09 introduces the new “Unused Content” app. This app can be used to find and delete unused content.
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Vertraulich bis zur Veröffentlichung

Content, such as news articles, which must remain visible only to certain editors until publication, even in the offline project, can now be easily created in the editor.

Occasionally, certain content, such as news articles, may only be visible to specific editors until it is published in the offline project, but should be visible to everyone after publication. With version 23-12, such content can now be easily created in the editor. Previously, this was only possible with considerable effort by manually setting permissions.

Man sieht eine feiernden Menschenmenge auf einer Tanzfläche mit stimmungsvoller Beleuchtung. Im Vordergrund formt eine Person mit den Händen ein Herz.

In Western culture, January 1 has been widely accepted as the start of the year since the Middle Ages. Regardless of this, other dates have been and continue to be used in different regions and at different times.

In 153 BC, the Romans moved the start of the official year from March 1 to January 1, the day the consuls took office, according to their calendar. However, the calendar year still kept the March style with March 1 as the start of the year. It was not until Caesar's calendar reform (Julian calendar) that the originally appended months of January and February were placed at the beginning of the year, so that the calendar year and the official year began on January 1.

As a result, the counting months (September, meaning “seventh”; October, “eighth”; November, ‘ninth’; December, “tenth”) also lost their positions corresponding to their names.

Eine junge Frau liegt auf dem Boden und liest Bücher

The Storyteller builds a screen-filling sequence of animated content with its own navigation. The display of each individual “page” can be customized.

Man sieht eine feiernden Menschenmenge auf einer Tanzfläche mit stimmungsvoller Beleuchtung. Im Vordergrund formt eine Person mit den Händen ein Herz.

In Western culture, January 1 has been widely accepted as the start of the year since the Middle Ages. Regardless of this, other dates have been and continue to be used in different regions and at different times.

In 153 BC, the Romans moved the start of the official year from March 1 to January 1, the day the consuls took office, according to their calendar. However, the calendar year still kept the March style with March 1 as the start of the year. It was not until Caesar's calendar reform (Julian calendar) that the originally appended months of January and February were placed at the beginning of the year, so that the calendar year and the official year began on January 1.

As a result, the counting months (September, meaning “seventh”; October, “eighth”; November, ‘ninth’; December, “tenth”) also lost their positions corresponding to their names.

Man sieht eine feiernden Menschenmenge auf einer Tanzfläche mit stimmungsvoller Beleuchtung. Im Vordergrund formt eine Person mit den Händen ein Herz.

In Western culture, January 1 has been widely accepted as the start of the year since the Middle Ages. Regardless of this, other dates have been and continue to be used in different regions and at different times.

In 153 BC, the Romans moved the start of the official year from March 1 to January 1, the day the consuls took office, according to their calendar. However, the calendar year still kept the March style with March 1 as the start of the year. It was not until Caesar's calendar reform (Julian calendar) that the originally appended months of January and February were placed at the beginning of the year, so that the calendar year and the official year began on January 1.

As a result, the counting months (September, meaning “seventh”; October, “eighth”; November, ‘ninth’; December, “tenth”) also lost their positions corresponding to their names.