Features (version 5.3.x)
We have listed the most important features here. Please note that all features are part of the conceptcms core, you do not need to install separate modules to get certain functionality.
| General | |
| conceptcms is a scalble, flexible PHP- and MySQL-based Open Source Content Management System. We have done our best to make everything very simple and smart for the editor. |
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| Customer | multi-customer (within one database in one installation) |
| Workspaces | multi-databases (workspaces: multiple databases - even physically distributed to different systems - within one installation) |
| Sessions | session handling without cookies |
| LAMP | recommended standard is Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP |
| Languages | |
| The complete system is designed to manage multi-language content in an easy way. | |
| Languages | any menu item and document can be multi-language, no limit regarding number of different languages |
| Character Encoding | UTF8 |
| Templates | define language-dependent and language-independent elements in templates |
| Leading Language | concept of “leading language” ensures integrity of translation data for documents |
| Publishing | publish documents separately by language |
| Rights | limit rights based on languages |
| Menu items | |
| With menu items, you create the navigation structure of your website and can provide the base layout. | |
| Private & public | Create public or private menu items |
| Redirection | redirect menu items to other menu items, documents or any file |
| Hierarchy | hierarchy with unlimited levels |
| Integration | integrate content from any document via menu item templates |
| Menu item templates | create dynamic multi-level navigations, provide Website base layout; you can inherit menu item templates or can use any existing menu item template |
| Document templates | |
| Document templates define functions and possible content of documents based on a template as well as the display of content. | |
| Structural template | Structural templates define functionality and possible content of documents |
| HTML template | HTML templates define layout and specific functionality of documents |
| Multiple templates | multiple HTML templates for one structural template possible |
| Copy | copy templates |
| Editor view | definition of editor view of any template |
| System templates | manage multi-customer system templates as master templates for more than one customer |
| Overviews | create overview lists (multi-level) and define sorting and filter criteria |
| Page navigation | display following page navigation |
| Search | full text search or search via hierarchical selectboxes |
| Search result display | display search results as list with following page navigation |
| Content Elements | |
| Content Elements (CE) define functionality and content of a template and the documents based on this template. | |
| Mandatory fields | define mandatory fields |
| Languages | define language-dependent fields (fields that are not language-dependent are only displayed in the leading language) |
| Rights | define visibility and read/write access for editor |
| Styles | assign pre-defined to style to every CE |
| Pre-population | pre-populate elements with content separately by language |
| Copy | copy elements |
| Textarea | WYSIWG-text editor, HTML option, auto-conversion or simple plain text |
| Textinput | HTML option, auto-conversion or simple plain text |
| Date & Time | create date and time fields with different display options |
| Image | images with automatic size control as well as re-sizing |
| Media/Download | for downloads or direct integration of (media) files |
| Links | create links (text or image) |
| Table | create tables, with flexible or pre-defined format |
| Search | search with keywords or hierarchical selectboxes |
| Form | create forms with input fields, textareas, checkboxes and selectboxes, send as email or store in file, defi ne mandatory fi elds, control of data types |
| Documents | |
| Documents represent Website content, they are always based on a template that defines the available options regarding functionality, content types and layout. | |
| Hierarchy | Grouping by menu items for fast access to any document, open and close folder hierarchies |
| Document types | visual distinction of document types (overviews, detail pages, references) |
| Sorting | multiple sorting criteria for overviews |
| Status | document status shown separately by language |
| WYSIWYG text editor | WYSIWYG text editor to work with text, images and tables like in any common text processing software |
| Link browser | link browser to create links to documents, menu items and files |
| Image browser | insert images and other media types directly from the MediaLibrary |
| Functionality | edit, lock, deactivate, copy, move, publish and delete documents |
| Search | document search |
| EasyEdit | Easy Edit mode: create and edit documents directly from the Website |
| Filter & search | create internal filtesr and searches for your document list display |
| Versioning | simple versioning for documents (for saved or published versions) |
| Trash | trash to restore deleted documents |
| Publishing, Scheduler | |
| A publishing mechanism guarantees authorisation procedures. Use the scheduler to automate procedures. | |
| Working & live version | Separate working version and live version ensure that changes can be done and approved before getting visible on the Website |
| Status | status display for every document separately for both versions |
| Publish | publish and un-publish with simple scheduler |
| Advanced publishing | advanced publishing with language selection and definition of hierarchy and references to be published or not |
| Rights | define rights to create, lock, deactivate, delete and publish documents separately |
| Scheduler | schedule actions, execute actions once or periodically, define start and end date or number of executions |
| Media Library | |
| Manage images and any kind of files in the media library. For images, various image processing option are available. | |
| Hierarchies | Create directory structures to manage files |
| Move & copy | move, copy or replace files |
| Upload | upload up to 10 files at the same time |
| Preview | optional preview mode with two sizes for pictures |
| Integration | all data from the media library is available for documents and templates |
| Image processing | image processing options like resize, cut, move, change file format, change colours etc. |
| Dynamic images | tool to create dynamic images with multiple layers of icons, text or links |
| Administration | |
| Configure customer and users access rights on the level of functions and content for administrative users as well as for registered end users. | |
| Administration | Customer management, user management, group management |
| Groups | assign groups and languages to customers |
| Content-based rights | access rights based on content (menu items), templates and MediaLibrary directories |
| Functional rights | assign more than 100 functional rights to a group |
| Protected areas | create password protected areas with login and configure user groups to access private content |
| Messaging & Notes | |
| You can send and receive messages and/or e-mails to/from other administrative users of the system or archive notes for yourself. | |
| Send, Outbox | Send messages to other users via system and/or email |
| Inbox | manage messages received and sent with status administration |
| Search | search messages |
| Backup | |
| Save a copy of your data and restore your system in case of data loss. You can also archive older versions of your Website. | |
| Backup | Backup of a database (per workspace) with all data and configuration settings |
| Restore, rollback | restore backup directly from server or from local system/network |
| Upload | upload backup files via HTTP or FTP |
| Migration | use backups to move workspaces between different installations |
| CSV-Importer/Exporter | |
| Importer and exporter provide you with the possibility to export and import selected content in CSV format. | |
| Text data | Export and import text data |
| Links | import and export paths to MediaLibrary files |
| Create or update | create or update documents |
| Languages | languages fully supported |
| Linkchecker | |
| Use the link checker to check internal links to documents, menu items and items from the media library. | |
| Check links | Check internal links to documents, menu items and files from the MediaLibrary |
| Filters | limit checking to menu items, templates and languages |
| Edit | display of broken links with direct option to correct |
| Design & Styles | |
| For menu item templates as well as for document templates, centrally managed stylesheets are available. | |
| Groups | order stylesheets via groups |
| Multiple stylesheets | Alternative style sheets for test and development possible |
| Styles for CE & WYSIWYG | styles for each CE automatically identified in templates, available styles pre-populated; you can define styles available for the WYSIWYG editor |
| Editor | JavaScript-based editor for CSS |
| YAML | CSS framwork YAML fully supported |
| Website Import/Export, Themes | |
| Via template sets and/or Website themes, without any programming knowledge, creating new Websites is a matter of minutes. | |
| Website themes | complete Website designs including templates for different document types |
| Template sets | completely functional document templates, e.g. for news, image galeries etc., coming with styles, images etc. |
| Exchange elements | exchange elements like templates, menu items, documents, files, styles between different customers and installations via export-import |
| YAML | download YAML CSS framework including example templates |
| Client | |
| You just need a standard browser and Internet access to work with conceptcms. | |
| Browser-based | completely browser based administration |
| Operating system | all operating system platforms supported |
| Admin languages | administration interfaces available in German and English, other languages optional |
| Server | |
| We recommend the LAMP platform as standard. | |
| Operating systems | Linux, Solaris |
| Operating systems with limited support | WindowsXP, Windows 7 |
| Database | MySQL 5.x |
| PHP | PHP 5.2.x |
| Enhancements & APIs | |
| There are interfaces to retrieve and provide content as well as for adding functionality. | |
| API | various XML-RPC interfaces (API) to integrate external content and to serve content to other systems |
| PHP modules | very simple enhancements of functionality via self-written PHP modules |
News
Version 5.3.1 available
20.08.2010Bugfix release 5.3.1 available. Update is recommended for all installations.
MoreNew release 5.3
11.05.2010Version 5.3 brings document versioning and a new configuration interface.
MoreVersion 5.2.2 available
11.03.2010Bugfix release 5.2.2 with a number of bugfixes and some nice small enhancements is available. Update is recommended for all installations.
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