The versatile and highly configurable CMS can be used to manage almost any type of hierarchical data (Testimonials, White papers, Tutorials, Policies / Documents, Product / Service descriptions, etc..). Administrators can define what informational fields are viewable, editable and searchable. This enables your organization's Website to easily define and reflect your terminology, methodology and business requirements.
Standard Content Fields
As is true for nearly any information found on the Web, some fields are consistently used to accommodate any type of content such as news, articles, photos, profiles, listings, etc... These fields have been standardized for content management:
| Title
Category
Short description
Full content / body
Author / credit
Thumbnail
Image
Related URL | Download URL
Filename
Priority
Next/previous items
Status
Date added / modified
Date notify / alert |
Custom Content Fields
Additionally, most Web site initiatives involve the management of data that is specific to industry or custom business logic. For example, consider a real estate company’s Web site where the site’s content is property listings. Immediately, we can visualize use of the Standard Content Fields to accommodate some of the data of each “property listing”. However, a “property listing” would also include various data specific to the real estate industry, such as: “Bedrooms”, “Baths”, “Lot Size”, “Building Features”, etc…
Administrators can define fields (attributes) to specifically accommodate (display, add, edit, delete) data. This powerful feature enables PortalApp driven sites to manage real estate or auto listings, design portfolios, knowledge base articles, support documents, alumni directories and other content-centric scenarios.
Other unstructured and ad-hoc data can also be presented using the description fields. Since these fields are administered using the integrated WYSIWYG editor, it is easy to post context specific data, images or even hyperlinks to other Web pages.
Custom fields defined in Content Type settings
Custom fields displayed in content submission form
Keywords: Metadata, attributes, content fields, unstructured data.
