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The Content Manager Suite
NetVIOS Content Manager Suite contains
programs that allow you manage your web content in-place. You do not need to
have a web editor installed or download any web pages. With the content manager
suite, you can edit or create content from any computer and any location. In
addition, the security system in NetVIOS ensures that web pages and resources
have ownership associated with them. Owners of web pages may allocate different
levels of access to web pages including view, modify or administer. As a result,
web page content editors, company representatives, sales team members, or web
site members who have been provided elevated privileges may edit or create
content in folders to which they have such privileges; from any location and at
any time. The savings can be imagined. Below are some of the benefits that can
be derived from deploying the Content Manager Suite:
- Web content can be edited or created from any computer on the
web without requiring that a web editor be installed
- Web content does not need to go through IT personnel resulting
in content that can be published any time and smaller IT staff
- Web content rights is thoroughly established allowing you to
determine which files and folders specific users and groups can edit or
publish to
- Since access rights is well established, site members may be set
up to contribute content resulting in sites with fresher content at lower
costs
- NetVIOS Content Suite generates actual files making web content
available for search engine indexing.
1.1 Composition of the Content Suite
There are four parts to the Content Suite
- Web Page Editor
- Template-Based Web Page Editor
- Page Composer
- Webtop Creator
1.2 Web Page Editor
The web page editor enables you to create
or edit complete web pages.
Accessing the Web Page Editor
There are several ways to access the Web
Page Editor
- From Application Manager, click Manage for the Content
Manager application
- From /WOS/createfile.asp, click New Page from Scratch
- From /ContentManager/editfile.asp
The last two methods can be accessed by
typing the URL following your domain name (after logging in) or navigating to
the respective file from the Web File Manager. The first method is more easily
accessed by logging in as the SiteOwner and clicking Manage Applications
from the Admin page.
How to Use the Web Page Editor to
Create a New Web Page
- Access the web page editor as described above
- Select a Folder in which to save the web page (you must have
permissions to save in this folder or be the SiteOwner) by clicking Select
Folder
- Enter a name for the web page file (you will be warned if a file
with such a name already exists). Note that you may be unable to overwrite
a file that you do not have modify access over.
- Create the web page using the word-processing-like tools
- Save the web page by clicking Save File at the bottom of
the page.
How to Use the Web Page Editor to Edit
an Existing Web Page
- Access the Web File Manager
- Files that can be edited by the Web Page Editor have a small
"C" on the left hand corner preceding the name of the
file. All pure html files (.htm, .html) can be edited with the Web Page
Editor
- Click on Edit next to a web file
- Use the word-processing-like tools in the Content Editor to edit
the page
- Save the changes by clicking Save File at the bottom of
the page.
1.3 Content Editor (Template-Based Web
Page Editor)
The content editor enables you to create
or edit web pages based on web page templates. Templates are basically html
pages with areas designated as content areas. It enables content to be created
on a web page while still retaining the look of the web site as reflected in
the provided templates or web content to be quickly created without repeating
consistent aspects of the page that have been created already. It also enables
all pages based on the template to be quickly modified.
Accessing the Content Editor
There are several ways to access the
Content Editor
- From Application Manager, click Manage for the Content
Manager application
- From /WOS/createfile.asp, click New Page from Template
- From /ContentManager/editcontent.asp
The last two methods can be accessed by
typing the URL following your domain name (after logging in) or navigating to
the respective file from the Web File Manager. The first method is more easily
accessed by logging in as the SiteOwner and clicking Manage Applications
from the Admin page.
How to Use the Content Editor to
Create a New Web Page
- Access the content editor as described above
- Select a Folder in which to save the web page (you must have
permissions to save in this folder or be the SiteOwner) by clicking Select
Folder
- Enter a name for the web page file (you will be warned if a file
with such a name already exists). Note that you may be unable to overwrite
a file that you do not have modify access over.
- Create the web page using the word-processing-like tools
- Save the web page by clicking Save File at the bottom of
the page.
How to Use the Content Editor to Edit
an Existing Web Page
- Access the Web File Manager
- Files that are based on template have a small "T"
on the left hand corner preceding the name of the file. Such files may be
edited with the Content Manager
- Click on Edit next to a template-based web file
- Use the word-processing-like tools in the Content Editor to edit
the page
- Save the changes by clicking Save File at the bottom of
the page.
1.4 Creating a NetVIOS Content Editor
Template
- Simply create a web page. Identify the area of the page which
will be used to old content
- In html view (using a text editor), demarcate the content area
with the following tag:
<NetVIOSTemplate>
</NetVIOSTemplate> - Copy the new template into the /ContentManager/Template folder
to make the template available to Content Editor users
The Content Editor will automatically
insert page content within the tags described above while actually using the
entire template to generate content pages.