Application Features

High Priority

• Versioning
• Rollback to specific time
• View site as if it was a specific time
• View list of who has made previous edits to the document
• Show what changes have been made?
• Document rollback
• Check in/Check out
• Content comparisons?
• Integrated HELP
• Security
• Admin Users – restrict access to sections of the admin
  • There's one site administrator that has access to everything -- access to objects cannot be changed on this user. Include recommendation to create secondary administrator account that limits access to more important admin features
• Will it be possible to tie in remotely to NT PDC or LDAP? Possibly using a XMLRPC over SSL or something like that. Include scripts that administrators can download to facilitate the user admin process.
• Groups
• Ability to assign groups to other groups
• Default groups: Site Administrators, Users
• Site Users – restrict access to sections of the public site
• Be able to set different types of access to an item or section: Edit (can make changes to an item), Read (can view or include the item on another page), No Access (user cannot access the item and wouldn't even appear to exist)
• Encrypt info in db?
• MD5 login forms
• SSL Login, then redirect to standard admin for performance?
• IP blocking/restricting
• Template System
• Default Templates?
• Definitely build-your-own
• XML/XSLT?
• Embedding text tags that links to a multilingual database of text
• Versioning set on the template system as well
• Allow site or section to be applied with new template before tested.
• Database – XML or SQL Server?
• CSS Editor
• Notification System
• E-mail
  • be able to set how often updates are sent out based on urgency
  • Urgent messages and Non-urgent messages can be set to "Instant", "Daily", or "Weekly", "Monthly", or "Never".
  • be able to set whether they should receive the entire contents of the article in the email
    • can set this option for each different step in the workflow process (example: a user can set to receive the entire article instantly if they are at the translation phase of the workflow but only receive a notification that an article has gone live)
• IM?
• Import/Export functionality
• XML
• Web Service
• Dreamweaver
• Other blogging/CMS Tools?
• Import of database information Example: Contact Database
• Asset Library
• Smart document handling
• Metadata extracted
• Asset Versioning
• Content Ordering
• Drag and drop rows?
• Content Scheduling
• Date Available
• Date Archived
• Date Expire
• Date for Review
• Source-code / content control
• The ability for one person to make an asset and let other people insert assets into their page without being able to change the asset.
• Logging
• Log all events that occur within the system and on the site
• Log user, IP, do domain lookup.
• Easily sharing content across multiple sections
• “section link” – a user clicks on a section that they would like to place the linked document, assuming they have access to that section. Likewise, a person can edit the page but only if they have access to it. (special icon would show that it is a linked document)
• Content Status
  • Content Status determined based on where in Workflow the article is in.
• Approved / Live
• Approved / Empty (for Folders)
• Draft / Checked out
• Draft / In Translation (if multilingual site)
• Draft / (item from workflow)
  
• Be able to hide items from navigation
• Be able to remove a page from being searchable
• Overview page
• should have list of favourites (can add any object to the favourites list)
• traffic info
• # of comments ( if enabled )
• should show last few items edited
• traffic info
• # of comments ( if enabled )
• Latest New comments or form feedbacks should appear on home page
• Link to associated article
• Should contain quick access to popular functionality such as Add new page or asset
• Registration process should include an e-mail confirmation
• Any content entered externally (comments or feedback forms) should provide some way of filtering the information.
• Be able to move items from one section to the next
• Metadata handling
• Dublin Core
• Standard metadata tags
• Custom tags
• Tie into external metadata libraries?
• Multilingual
• Admin Interface
• Translation services to translate interface? Possibly exchange services for hosting.
• Template system can tie into database of labels
• Need to determine document linking, creation, and approval process – streamline it from the way it is in H3 Web Manager
• Object is identified by two keys: an object id and a language id – all languages will have the same objid.
• Setting in database to define a default language so that if a section is requested without a language id, the default language will get loaded
• One template is defined for all languages
• Setting to determine if all languages must be approved before live.
• Be able to add/delete languages
• Be able to set charset/codepage that should be used for each new language created.

Mid Priority

• Project Management
• Workflow
• Approval by more than one person
• Ability to manually add users to the approval/review list
• Create workflows for different sections of the site? (ver 2)
  • Should a user be able to customize notification options for each section? Could be too much user setup.
• Be able to define workflow steps and assign users/groups to each step
• If a user belongs to step 2 AND 3, and they approve the document, it'll move the document directly to Step 4 of the workflow process
• Document Notes
• Be able to create more than one item of the same type in one go. Useful for setting up a new section of the site quickly.
• Task Management
• Set preferences for e-mail notification of tasks based on urgency of the request. Non urgent items could be sent daily or weekly for review. Urgent items could be sent immediately.
• Set Milestones
• Internal Messaging
• Set items as Unread
• URL Rewriting
• Will allow for more user friendly URL’s such as /article/235/ or /article/myarticle/ or /mysection/myarticle/
• WYSIWYG editing – which browsers (Mozilla [Midas] and IE [MSHTML]?
• X-Standard http://xstandard.com/default.asp Active-X only but Mozilla/Firefox/Opera version coming soon. Is it a user download or can the active-x control be embedded into a page? Make it an option for users to download?
• HTMLArea
• Give Users the option in their preferences to set the default editing mode or editor
• Automated domain setup/maintenance
• Upload a logo
• Reporting
• Which author is getting the most # of hits
• Which pages are getting the most hits / the least
• Be able to filter data based on available fields.
• Track clicks on external links? (all links go through a redirector?)
• Word to Web Integration
• Automating Domain management?
• Content Association
• Able to associate pieces of content through popularity or through metadata
• Content caching
• Be able to define if a page gets added to the cache and for how long (in seconds or minutes?)
• Determine which documents should be cached based on demand
• Vary-By-Parameter Caching
• Sliding Expiration Caching
• Page Data Caching
• Page Fragment Caching
• Be able to create custom error pages through admin.
• Assign templates to specific error types
• editing error pages would be a special category in the content manager (just like the library)
• Search Engine
• Internal and External
• Tie into metadata
• Search caching?
• Display matched text
• Highlighting on linked page
• Ranking
• Attach priority to date, location within content, frequency?
• Provide freetext searching
• Be able to search Word/Excel/PDF documents
• Determine indexing capabilities?

Low Priority

• Client Logo placement
• E-Comm?
• Shopping Cart
• Browse site (with edit button)
  • Edit-in-place (using the browse mode) – possibly with an absolutely positioned edit icon in the editable region.
• JavaScript popup window detection
• Baked or Fried? (Static vs. Dynamic)
• Caching
• Personalization
• Recycle Bin
• Possibly determine rules for cleaning the bin on regular intervals
• May not be necessary with Versioning functionality
• Content Negotiation
• Output in WAP format? (unlikely)