Everything is a Content
The foundation of sensenet ECM is the Content Repository, where documents, tasks, users, projects — everything is a Content. It is the fundamental building block of the system that makes content management easy and powerful at the same time.
Using content items everywhere unlocks a great deal of exceptional features that make your experience as a user more seamless, and your job as a developer a lot easier. Focus on the business problem — the platform handles the rest!
Why is this a cool thing?
Unified, easy-to-learn techniques for working with content
How do you change document metadata? Edit its properties! How do you modify a User, or add details to a Task? Well, Edit its properties, of course! A unified user interface: same menus, same buttons, same operations help feel familiar with every part of the system immediately.
Services and actions available for all content
If there is a new feature, it can be enabled for all kinds of content immediately — think of the Copy or Delete actions for example. You can copy a file or a whole workspace the same way.
This goes for your custom actions too! You can define new features and enable them for all kinds of content — or just for the types you need them for.
Content management in a central place
If everything is a content, why not store and manage them in a central place? You’ll find every single item in the Content Repository in our huge content tree! Combined with a powerful search engine this makes content discovery a no-brainer.
The built-in Content Explorer, our admin UI lets you browse, edit and manage content — the whole tree — in a familiar, rich environment.
Do you have questions? Contact us and let us help!
Got it, give me the features!
Although it is virtually impossible to squeeze every important feature of a modern enterprise content management system into a single article, we wanted to give you a glimpse of what sensenet ECM is capable of when it comes to document management.
Custom metadata
A unified content infrastructure lets you define custom metadata fields on a high level and use them on specific types. The Display name field for example is defined on the base Content Type called GenericContent — and that gives you a display name field for basically every content in the system!
Presentation
It is just a single step from storing data in a unified way to displaying it using predefined UI building blocks. Create and re-use field controls and content views, and speed up your development process by assembling skins, pages and page templates — which are also content themselves ;-).
Version history
It takes only a few clicks to enable versioning — not just for files, but for any kind of content! Want to keep old versions of a Memo or a Task? Choose from the available versioning modes, and you’re good to go! You can switch this on in a library, a workspace, or any level in the Content Repository.
Approval
Collaborate with others on documents, specifications, tasks! The built-in simple approval process that can be enabled for any kind of content makes the usually cumbersome and time-consuming process super-easy and fast in sensenet ECM.
Permission on content level
The security system that is built into the core layer of sensenet ECM lets you manage permissions on the level of your choice: it is easy to define them on a workspace or library, but if you need to, you can even control the accessibility of a single content — be it a document, a group or a JavaScript file.
Fast search by metadata
A unified Content Repository extended with our Lucene search engine lets you find the content you need quickly. You can also create complex queries in an easy-to-master query language to build the flexible and rich user interface you imagined.
For more information please check the following pages:
- Try it — without installation
- Top use cases — how others use sensenet ECM
This post was originally published on the official blog of Sense/Net Inc.
