content-management

What's the best way to collaborate and distribute project and release documentation within an organization?

It's a continual problem: allow collaboration (and versioning) among developers who are creating project plans, requirements, functional specs, design docs and test plans. Then, publish for others in the organization (IT, Customer Service, Technical Support) to use this information. What systems are people using to track project docume...

What is fatwire from programmer perspective?

What open source toolkit does fatwire compare to and are there some particular advantages to fatwire? How hard is fatwire to export out of and move to a free alternative? How stable is it as a platform to write java extensions on? ...

Add fields to the Site information section on Drupal 6.12

Hiya, I've been shifting through the drupal documentation and forums but it's all a little daunting. If anyone has a simple or straight forward method for adding fields to the Site information page in the administration section i'd really appreciate it. As a background, i'm just trying to add user customizable fields site wide fields/...

Adding a custom style to content editor

I have the standard content editor that uses an iFrame as the text area and then onchange of dropdowns it performs: idContent.document.execCommand(cmd,"",opt); where "idContent" is the iFrame. One of the dropdowns is supposed to be style but it performs a "formatBlock" command. I have a custom style sheet. Is there a way for me to p...

Are there any .NET content management systems that focus on usability and leave out the bloat?

I work in a shop that is mostly .NET based, and we're trying to pick out a content management system to use. This means we mostly likely won't be able to use any of the common open source CMS projects (Plone, phpNuke, anthing not based on .NET, etc.). Since I'm a huge usability nerd (just finished reading The Design of Everyday Things b...

universal content manager

I found one limitation in Oracle UCM. Well it might not be limitation but I am not able to figure it out yet: I didn't find mapping between metadata and content type. What if I wish to associate different set of metadata with different content type which is likely the case? Thanks. ...

Implementing document management with an ASP.NET MVC front-end

I've implemented a website for a client that holds editable articles. I used ASP.NET MVC and made the content manageable by storing it in a 'Content' table in the database and creating a simple Admin section of the site, where the user can add/edit/remove content and choose where on the site it will appear. Now the client has come bac...

Content/Document/Project Management System - Which is right for my needs?

So I just started an internship with this nonprofit company and it's pretty cool. My first assignment was to find a type of program that would work well for the company and its users. I and some team members just finished summarizing down what I think is a good list for the needed functionality. Before I started working, I've never even ...

What is the best Open Source CMS System?

From the Developer (web dev/designer) point of view (POV). Not from the guy paying the bill POV. Please read below: Our company is looking for a good CMS system to develop our new website. We are looking for: Easy maintainability of the content Well kept MVC model Widely supported We want something that will give us the flex...

What factors exist to choose to develop a website or to use a CMS?

Hello SO Team: We are in the process of starting a new company website and the question was brought to use or not a Content Management Solution. What will be the factors to consider to be able to debate between this two options. Both of them have pros/cons, but I am sure that there has to be a few people out there that will have an ex...

Anyone know of an Asp.Net C# CMS type system with a Forms Module

We have a large internal data collection website. I don't have time to create form based data collection pages for every department. I was thinking that there might be some kind of WYSIWYG forms creation module that could be run on top of our website. System would be like a cms, but one that allows custom pages to be created. All the for...

Looking for a good programmable Java CMS (Content Management System)

What would be a good choice of a programmable/extensible open-source content management system for Java developers? We've tried our hand at "Liferay" with a poor result after 15 months of work mostly due to its lack of programmability. It's not a product directed towards developers. We need to reboot the project now and we're looking f...

How do you set up N2 CMS in an "enterprise" environment?

I've been playing around with the N2 CMS and I've been impressed so far. But it seems like a big jump to move from the examples to an "enterprise" grade solution. What I really need are robust permissions and roles integrated with Active Directory. So far I've played with the membership and role providers and got things sort of rolling....

Building a simple CMS

Which language is generally used for a very simple CMS? Can someone recommend a very simple CMS tutorial? ...

What is the most performance effective way to create a sitemap.xml for any CMS system?

We want to implement a sitemap.xml feature in out CMS system. There is some argument within our developers that this feature will impact performance due to each time a change is done in the Content a full list of links of the site needs to be created and placed in the sitemap.xml. The idea is that each time a public viewing page is e...

Content Management System Development Checklist

Hay Guys, I'm about to dive in and create a CMS for all my future projects to be based off. I've looked at others about (wordpress, expression engine, etc) All of them have excellent features. I guess the basic question is: What do you guys think is a must have when developing a CMS? I've got the simples down. Media handling, Content H...

EPiServer R2 SP2

I am attempting to install an EPiServer R2 SP2 site on IIS 6.0 and I received the classfactory not initialised error. I managed to overcome this by downgrading my web.config to one that is compliant with IIS 6.0 The site loads fine and works as it should all except for edit/admin mode and the default login screen which all seem to have ...

How to automate/simplify this content submission scenario?

I'm trying to think a strategy to automate or simplify content submission. A submission is by default done through a form and counts as one entry (some text fields + a random number of file upload fields). Through a web interface, I can imagine this as a regular form. But how can I automate the process to simplify it? I don't have a pa...

Which Rails content management systems (CMS) work with ActionMailer?

I want to use my Rails app to send campaign-style emails ("Hi, call your representative! Her name and number are...") that are customized on a per-user basis. Effectively, each user could be seeing a slightly different email. Some of these emails would need to contain link_to's, and other helper functions. I've never used any CMS in Rai...

the best way to grab websites data (content)?

I need to grab some websites data (content) those websites provide listings I need to grab those and filter them according to the content any software can do that? php script? if not, where can I start to program this functionality? ...