Summary

In this chapter, we stepped out of code-land a bit to spend some time around the admin panel. In a typical organization, a content management system (CMS) has many stakeholders: developers are typically responsible for designing the system's entities (that is, deciding on which content-types make up part of the system; the relationships between entities; the permission model; any custom code; and so on). Other stakeholders—such as marketing, content editors, and creators—are responsible for creating the content itself. Regardless of our roles, when dealing with Strapi, the admin panel remains the place where we will spend a considerable amount of time, so it's important to be comfortable and efficient when using it.

To achieve this efficiency, we revisited Content Manager and saw how the views can be customized to users' needs. We also used Media Manager and saw how a content-type can make use of media files, and how they are represented in the...