contentXXL Business Content Management System
 Are the individual components of the website administrated in a file system or in a database? If database, is it a system-owned database or can also other database systems be used?
The webpage is constructed from pre-built page-parts (modules). These modules have different data structures and functions, e.g. showing HTML, news, contacts, documents, etc. Content is saved either in the database or in the file system.
A Microsoft SQL Server 2000 or the free of cost MSDE is required for using the contentXXL Content Management Framework. Custom modules may use other databases or file system. Is there an integrated media database for pictures, among others?
Yes, media (pictures, documents, sounds etc.) is administrated concerning meta-information, usage information and history in the database. The work with the Resourses Manager is done in the Internet browser. Different views (detail, preview) and a search-function makes administration easy. Thumbnails are built automatically during upload. Used resources can be moved to other folders without errors on website. The resource-manager is also used for inserting resources on the website within the WYSIWYG-editor. Which attributes (for example, version, authorisation, publication and expiry date, META information) can be assigned to individual components or sites?
contentXXL comes with a role- and user-based authorisation system. It contains the placement of reading, writing as well as other rights, based on page level, module level (page area) and object level. The objects (e.g. news) have a publishing/expiration date. Metainformation can be assigned as freetext and using the tree-based category system. To which extent are templates used?
Templates are continuously used to display the media-neutrally stored content objects. A browser based WYSIWYG Tempate Manager and Template Editor is included. Templates are built using simple placeholders - no programming is required. Is there an integrated search function for the website?
contentXXL includes an efficient full-text-search index server with a list-ranking of results on object level. Results are displayed using templates, access rights and language version. Not localized content may be displayed in a default language fallback. Is there the possibility to automatically generate sitemaps and index sites?
Sitemaps and Navigations such as fly-out menus, breadcrumb-navigations or multi-level navigations can be generated automatically and are fully templateable. Indexsites can be created by assigning categories and keywords. Is there an automatic link verification with a corresponding correction?
Internal links are assigned and kept consistent via the included Content Relationship Management System. External links are not corrected. Can you define dynamic categories on websites, in which further relevant links are indicated?
Pages or objects can be interrelated to each other via category trees or manually.
This Content Relationship Management System works not only for links but also for all other content objects (e.g. related articles, related contacts, products or documents).
The sort order of the related objects is changed via Drag & Drop directly in the browser. Is it possible to design a generally valid navigation, which is adapted to the context?
Different navigation modules are are provided, e.g. for tree structures, fly-out menues or path navigations. These modules represent parts of the sitemap tree-structure in each case. Navigation modules are completely customizable via templates and have numerous effects like drop shaddows or special animations. Is there an integrated version backup?
Only some special content objects can be versioned. Links are kept working. The integrated backup is done via a database, time-controlled at runtime according to requirements, e.g. as difference backup every 15 minutes. Can a version backup be implemented through additional software?
The standard backup software of the operating system (NTBackup) or other products e.g. from Veritas can be used for backup. The integration in an existing backup concept is possible. All backups can be executed online during running system (24x7). If required a complete replication with a staging area is possible, too. Can earlier versions of the website or individual components be reestablished and if yes, to which extent?
The complete backup and recovery of the website can be done with the above described software. Is there an integrated template editor?
A browser-based Template Editor and Template Manager for WYSIWYG and HTML is integrated.
Templating is based on placeholders. No programming is required. Can external editors be integrated? If yes which?
External HTML-editors can be used for designing HTML-modules or for creating templates. Is there an object-oriented authoring?
Yes, objects and modules created once can be re-used multiple times on different pages. They can be placed and attributed directly on the webpage in the browser via Drag & Drop, even more than once and for different periods of time. Can multilingual contents be administrated?
Yes, even more than one language on one page. The switching in the context of the current object is always possible. To realize multi language support UTF-8 and .NET Culture Tags are used, i.e. not only the display of the characters but also date resp. currency formats are shown correctly. The localization workflow is supported especially. For not localized content a language fallback function to default language is provided. Are multilingual clients available?
Compilation and administration is done completely browser-based. The Sitemanager is available in several languages and can be provided localized for other languages on demand if needed. With which techniques can an editor transfer contents to the system?
Internetbrowser and WYSIWYG-editor, module-spezific also import via ODBC, XML or webservice. RSS is supported directly. Some modules may use WEBDAV for editing and saving office documents directly in browser. Which possibilities are there for editors to work on contents?
Editing possibilities are module specific. For all kinds of content a WYSIWYG editor is provided which ensures the compliance of CI/CD by using templates (styles) as well as text-modules. Table editor functions are included. [Basic information] [Asset managament] [Availabilty] [Content syndication] [Expandable] [Import] [Performance] [Personalisation] [Reports] [Workflow] [XML] | 
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