Gentics Content.Node 4 - features

Gentics Content.Node simplifies the creation of contents and the consolidation from different sources, the improvement and translation in all languages of the world. The universal content management system which supplies all of your customers, employees or partners with the fitting contents.

Strengths of Gentics Content.Node in short
  • userfriendly and fast web-based userinterface
  • efficient and short project implementation
  • innovative text, image and multimedia editing and management
  • internationalisation and translation of all contents
  • personalisation, rightsmanagement and workflow functionality
  • multi-site, scalability and reliable

Gentics Content.Node - the CMS features in detail
userinterface
content creation and editing
implementation and administration
mediadatabase
workflows
content publishing
language support
authentification, authorisation, security
maintenance
available modules

User interface
  • webbased, dynamic userinterface
  • no software or plugin installation necessary
  • assistent and online help
  • personalised user interface
  • several sort functions
  • different view modes (full screen mode etc)
  • LiveZiP compression for ISDN/Modem/Handy
  • Instant Messaging function in the CMS and email notification
  • system wide full text search in the CMS

Content creation and editing
  • WYSIWYG - content editing mode in the CMS user interface (Gentics Live Editor)
  • WYSIWYG - inline editing with preview in the context (Gentics Real Editor)
  • Wiki Edit-Mode (content editing directly in website or in portal)
  • preview-funcationality
  • table editor integrated
  • template editor integrated
  • template based system (separation of content, design and structure)
  • full technical support of accessible content (WAI)
  • automated link management
  • versioning and recovery of content
  • timemanagement of publication and displaying of content
  • check-in and check-out of page content
  • free definable objects (images, videos, flash, ...)
  • desktop integration (WebDAV)
  • comparison of content versions with change management

Implementation and administration
  • support of CSS, JavaScript, (x)HTML, PHP, ASP, JSP, ...
  • support of Velocity Template Language
  • scripting Language (XNL)
  • XNL-objects (integration of new functionality and database queries and applications)
  • import of templates (i.e. websites, Adobe Dreamweaver™, Microsoft™ Expression Web™, ...)
  • copying of existing projects (nodes)
  • module for scheduling of tasks (publishing, archiving) with mail notification
  • full multi-site functionality
  • external search engines can be easily integrated

Media database
  • integrated image editing (smart resizing, cropping, image properties, effect filters, format conversion)
  • image galleries
  • support of media databases (M@RS 6™, CELUM, flickr, …)
  • media data server
  • free definable meta data fields for media objects like copyright etc

Workflows
  • action- and time triggered workflows in CMS
  • preview of workflows in decision trees
  • todo management
  • approval process and staging
  • automatic content synchronisation
  • automatic archiving

Content publishing
  • publishing of pages in (x)HTML, XML, mobile formats, ...
  • publishing on different webservers
  • publishing in different databases
  • publishing in content repositories (following the JSR-170 standard)

Multilanguage support
  • support of multi language content
  • full UTF-8 support
  • multilanguage user interface
  • optimized translation mode
  • support of translation workflows
  • language specific role

Authentification, authorisation and security
  • Gentics access management (LDAP, CA SiteMinder, portals)
  • full multi-site functionality
  • powerful rights and rolesystem
  • language depending permissions
  • SSL/TLS for client-/server communication
  • firewall support

Maintenance
  • support of different databases like MySQL™, Microsoft™ SQL Server™ and Oracle™
  • loadbalancing support
  • database replication
  • backup and website versioning
Available modules
  • Gentics Portal Connector for connecting third party portal systems (IBM™, BEA™, SAP™, JBOSS, Liferay, ...)
  • Gentics Newsletter