Inventory light
Inventory light is a content management system (CMS).
With Inventory light it is possible to change content of websites. It is a very
easy to use system, which allows the user to changes text, images, audio,
video and also special content, such as items from agenda, tests, and files for
download, guestbook etc.
The system also offers access to the list of your clients, that can register themselves
on your site. It is possible to send messages by email to all of your clients at once.
There is an automatic log, that registers all the events, such as users that
open pages. This way you can have a visualisation of the access to your pages.
After loging in with your user name and password, the system shows the structure of the website,
in a tree view. For each site there can be a different structure. Like the windows explorer,
you can open items, and select on a specific item to edit it.
On the side, you can see an item that contains a picture was selected. The item shows
the date and by who it was added and changed. You can see a log of the changes that were
made to this item. Like this you can return to content you have had before.
The item shows a form, which is the type of content that it contains. In this case,
it is of the type "picture".
Each item always has a Title, which is the identification of the item. It is the name
that is also used to display the item in the tree. The description is the content of the item,
which can exist in various languages. The current selected language you can see on the top,
which is "english". When selecting another language, the same form is shown with the same
picture, but with the description of the selected language. It is very easy to manage your
content this way.
With the arrows
you can move an item upwards or downwards in the tree.
This is usefull for lists, like news messages or agenda items, where the ordering is important.
Restricted area
In the inventory light system, there is a part where you can manage your contacts. A contact
is an identified visitor on the website. On you website you can provide a page where a user
can register himself. After registration, the administrator can confirm it, and after this
the user can login on the site, and access the restricted area. If required, you can confirm
also simply by sending a mail message, and letting the user click on a link. Of course,
this is less secure.
After logging in, the visitor can have access to more items of the website, that are part
of the restricted area. This way, content that you don't want to share with the public
can remain protected.
To make the content of the restricted area even more flexible, you can use groups and set access
on items, so that only users of specific groups can access the items. See more about groups below.
Special content
Agenda: On your website you can display, for example, an agenda, with special events. To the
side is an example of the website of http://rafaelponde.com. To
change this content, in the tree we have an item agenda, as shown:
When clicking on a specific item, the screen shows the details of the item, that can be changed and saved.
Observe that the label and the description in this case are identical, but this is
only for the selected language. In another language, the label is still the same, but the description
can be different.
The user does not need to worry about the layout, which is automatically applied:
Foto album: a foto album is a colection of fotos, that can be organised in the tree
just like items of an agenda, like shown on the side. Each item can be opened and changed, even
the description of the foto in each language. On the website, the complete collection is automatically
displayed in pages, in this case 12 pictures per page.
Each picture on the website can be clicked for amplication and the description appears
in the language that was choosen by the internet user in the first place. It became very easy
to add more pictures, and change the order in which they appear ! Everything managed by the site
owner.
Teste: You can also include tests for researches on your website. The results of each
user are saved again in the same tree, as children of a specified item. This way, the user has
complete control of the content, and can delete erroneuous tests. There is an option
to analyse the test results, already calculating totals of given answers. You can import these details
in any spreadsheet for further processing.
Test results can be collected in two ways
- anonymous results - the test is shown to any internet visitor, without knowing who it is.
Each test result is identified by IP, and only one answer per IP is accepted.
- identified result - the visitor must login first, and only then the test is shown. When responding
the test reuslt is saved with the user identification.
Groups
You can define users and passwords. You can also specify groups. For each user you can specify
if group access is ignored, which is usefull for administrators. If not specified, than individual
access rights on items are processed.
For each content item, you can define the permissions as shown on the side. You can
open the content item, select the button options, and click on permissions.
A new window opens with all available groups, and you can select the groups and permissions.
An important difference: contacts are the visitors you have on your website. They cannot
login in the inventory light system, but can login to the website, and may have access to some
parts of the website or not. Therefore,
they can only have "read" access.
The users of the system are those who can actually login to inventory light, to change content,
therefore, also users can be organised in groups, and for each content item you can specify
if there is access to open/edit, delete and even to change access rights.
To make it easier, you can specify new permisions for a specific item, and also specify that
you want to apply these settings to all children as well.
Technology
The technology used is ASP and the database is MS Access. There is the possibility
to use SQL server, for bigger companies with more content and more security.
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