Portlet Overview

Document management is provided through Web Space Server's Document Library and Image Gallery portlets. These portlets provide intuitive management of documents, PDF files, text files, and images.

Publishing in Web Space Server is accomplished through the Web Content portlet. It features a clean separation between content (data entry) and presentation (layout design), which enables the content to conform to a consistent "look and feel." Additionally, the Web Content portlet provides a content versioning and approval paradigm (workflow). This system allows for users involved in publishing to fall naturally into three different roles:

1. Writers create, edit, and enter content comprised of text and images.

2. Designers create layouts that display content.

3. Editors edit and approve final output and release it for publication to the portal.

All of the static content is managed and published by the Web Content portlet. We can authorize other members of the Web Space Server community to write documentation, but we retain final editorial authority and security. This capability enables a mixture of portlets and Journal articles to coexist, enabling the designer to be more creative with what is displayed. Designers can integrate static content using the Web Content Display portlet with a number of other function-rich portlets such as Navigation and Breadcrumb.

Document Management Portlets

Document management in Web Space Server is provided through the Document Library, Document Library Data Migration, and Document Library Display portlets.

The Document Library portlet provides a centralized repository for all documents. Using Document Library, you can organize documents into folders and sub-folders. It is analogous with the file system on your hard-disk. It also enables locking, tagging, and versioning of documents. You can convert the documents in the Document Library to other file formats. Document Library can be configured to store the documents either in a JSR-170 based repository (Jackrabbit), Amazon S3 account, or the file system on your server. Each uploaded document in the Document Library is assigned a unique URL though which it can be accessed from anywhere on the portal. You can set permissions at the folder level and the document level as well. For more information, see Document Library Portlet.

The Document Library Data Migration portlet enables you to migrate Document Library data from File System to JCR and conversely. For information, see Document Library Data Migration

The Document Library Display portlet allows only viewing of the available folders and uploaded documents. It does not allow the users to add, edit or delete folders and documents. For more information, see Document Library Display Portlet.

Image Management Portlets

Image management in Web Space Server is provided through the Image Gallery portlet. The Image Gallery provides a centralized repository for images that are used throughout the portal and assigns a unique URL to each image. Images can be organized into different folders and sub-folders. The Image Gallery also provides a slide show feature to view the images in a folder. For more information, see Image Gallery Portlet.

Web Content Management Portlets

Generally, most of the content on a web site is static. The Web Content Management feature enables you to create the web content on the fly and publish it to a portal. Web Content Management consists of the following portlets:

• The Web Content portlet forms the main interface for the web publishing system in Web Space Server. The portlet enables users to create, edit, and publish content. Using the portlet, you can create structures and templates through which you can apply the desired layout for an article in one click. It also has built in workflow, versioning, search, and meta-data features. For more information, see Web Content Portlets.

• The Web Content Display portlet displays one content at a time on a page, manually selected from the list of all available contents. Web Content Display portlets are responsible for displaying most of the content on the web sites based on Web Space Server. You can use the drag-and-drop feature of Web Space Server for arranging the content displayed on a page. For more information, Web Content Display Portlet.

• The Web Content List Portlet displays a list of contents that satisfy a set of conditions configured through the portlet preferences such as content type and community. The list will automatically update when new articles are added to the CMS. For more information, see Web Content List Portlet

• Web Content Search portlet allows users to search for web content. You can configure the Web Content Search portlet to search the content within a Web Content Display by using its portlet-ID. For more information, see Web Content Search Portlet.

  Web Content Search portlet is powered by Apache Lucene search engine.

Other Content Management portlets

Other content management portlets are described in the following sections:

• Asset Publisher Portlet

• Other Content Portlets

• Tags and Categories

• XSL Content Portlet