| You can add as many different output formats as you need! |
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Features
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| Site content is created with Microsoft word |
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| Single sourced content. No need to duplicate content, you can use the same document over and over on any web page. |
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| Multiple documents can be assigned to any page. |
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| Supports Hyperlinks with tooltips directly from Microsoft Word |
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| Bulk updates, drag and drop multiple files and folders into Manifest |
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| Output data to html, xml, pdf, morse code, wml, chtml, javascript, + more, and if it isn't there by default, you can create your own. |
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| Unlimited page layout design templates. Make your site look any way you like. |
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| Upload/download graphics, documents, PDF's etc, just drag and drop. |
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| Add, edit, delete, documents, pages, menus, and more |
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| AGLS Metadata editing and assignment, (or any other format you want to support, simultaneously if you like). |
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| Various Search Modules to choose from, of course you are free to use or build your own plug-in modules. We offer an advanced, fully integrated full text search of any item or page in the site, including within PDF's Word documents, Excel Spreadsheets and more. Search options include search by site area's, Boolean search, phrase search, fuzzy search, brackets, wildcards, near searches + more. Search by data XML element and/or attribute. Search just web pages, or just documents, + more. Search across multiple manifest installations on the same or different servers. Given that the system may be producing many output formats simultaneously, searches are smart enough to only return a single hit for a single page, in the format you request. I.e. you won't find home.pdf and home.html and home.wml in a single result set. Our search is carefully integrated, and remains up to date after site changes. It's fast, scaleable, and based on proven open source technology. |
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| Automated sitemap, completely customisable. |
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| Transaction logs to allow historical reconstruction of website |
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| Custom HTTP logging, track your site visitors and capture all the detail there is to know to a database, then view with standard web statistics analysis tools. |
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| Automatically build image galleries of any image data in your site. (or galleries of any other data for that matter) |
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| A Very High level of automation ensures that a minimum of work can produce the maximum benefit. |
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| Advanced user/group based security system allows published, read, download, write, modify, delete options on all resources for any group, and read option for any page for any group. With an elegant system of defaults this system can be made to hide or show any combination of data to any individual or group as required. |
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| Hyperlinks can follow pages, images and other resources, even if they move! |
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| Systems of automatically 'watched' folders allows internal automation that other tools just can't match |
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| Mix and match content, drag as many content items, as many times as you like to any single page. You can of course do this on every page in the site. |
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| Default content can be set for pages that don't even exist yet. Handy for menu's disclaimers, banners, headers, footers etc. |
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| Content can be developed offline. No need to be connected to the server to get on with work, we all know that servers and networks DO go down from time to time, because Sharks like undersea cables, and satellites bump into things, and terrorist threats interrupt life. Better to be able to get on with things. |
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| Content is valuable, you have and will invest a lot in your content, so you'll be reassured to know that all your hard work remains in the format you left it, all your original word documents in the system are still just that, safe, and reusable in the future. |
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| Secure areas; create password protected areas of your site quickly and easily. |
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| Redesign, everyone does it, this time you can reuse all your content, and only change the layout, or entirely change the structure of your site, even reorganise your data if you like, either way all your existing content is available for reuse with whatever new layout/structure/output format you choose to implement in the future. |
Slightly more technical information.
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| Pluggable architecture, extend the system with third party software, or create your own to fulfil your unique requirements. |
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| Extensible, if the demand is too high, setup with load balanced servers, there are many configuration options. |
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| Its all in the database, everything is stored in the database, so restoring a database backup, restores your entire site. This also enables use of database engines replication facilities to provide simple, up to date automatic mirrors, and staging areas. |
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| Enterprise level software, 100%Java J2EE server, most Quality database systems supported including Oracle, SQLServer, DB2, PostgreSQL. |
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| Client Server communication is 100%HTTP/S. |
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| Our Client Interface is NOT Browser Based, but because our client software is HTTP/s you get all the network benefits without having to wear the poor user interface options that browsers offer. We offer instead an elegant, custom application suite that integrates seamlessly with MSWord, making management of your site a breeze. It also makes casual hacking a lot more difficult. |
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| Pre-emptive management. This software has been designed with the underlying ideal that "nobody should need to do a job more than once", and "if it can be properly automated, then automate it". To this end the idea of pre-emptive management took hold. Site Managers can pre-assign what happens to content BEFORE it ever even exists!
Example: in many systems that single source content, the process of creating content and then publishing it is as follows: |
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| assign content to new page
(in some systems its MUCH worse),these minimum 4 steps need to be reproduced every time, over and over again. With Manifest the process can look like this: |
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| Create a new object capable of watching a folder and creating a new page for every item in that folder (sounds complicated but its just one single drag and drop). |
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| Create content (in Microsoft Word) |
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| Upload content (just push save from Microsoft word and save it to our watched folder)
that's it, no need to do the final assignment because the system got told right from the start what we wanted, and no need to repeat step (i) for subsequent content, we have reduced 4 steps to 2, and nobody had to wait for a single web page to load to move on to the next item, and content can be developed offline with MSWord. |
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| XSLT(Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations). Manifest leverages XSLT technology to reformat your data into whatever format you need. XSLT is a powerful way to format your data, you can create as many XSLT stylesheets as you need. |
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| Processing of MSWord Documents into XML occurs on the client machine, just prior to saving to the server. This achieves two things: |
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| it free's the server from the requirement to run MSWord, and therefore the server is NOT restricted to the Windows platform. |
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| it distributes workload to the client machines, using available resources efficiently, and freeing the server to serve. |
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