webCOMAND Features and Benefits
webCOMAND is a robust content management system, and the foundation of our website, intranet and extranet solutions.
Features benefiting all users
| Feature |
Benefit
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| Intuitive design |
Hit the ground running. webCOMAND's intuitive interface is easy to learn and use. |
| Web interface |
Manage your website, intranet or extranet from any web browser - at home, at work or while traveling. No software to install or maintain. |
| Task list |
Keep users informed and on task with "at a glance" opened and recently changed content and tasks. |
| WYSIWYG editor |
Easily edit and format text in an editor that looks and works like common word processors. Advanced users can also directly edit HTML. |
| Content locking |
Prevent multiple users from simultaneously editing the same content. |
| Versioning |
Maintain a complete history of each content record, with the option to easily roll back any record to a specific point in time. |
| Content reuse |
Manage a single content record that is displayed and referenced in multiple places on one or more websites, intranets and extranets. |
| Preview and publish |
Preview a draft or final edit as it will appear on the live site. Publish immediately or schedule future or recurring times. |
Features for administrators
| Feature |
Benefit |
| Permissions |
Control access to specific content and publications and grant editorial rights with fine-grain group-based permissions. |
Workflow
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Ensure contributions are reviewed and approved by editors and administrators before they are published. |
| Audit trail |
Automatically track when and by whom content is added and edited. |
| Publications |
Publish content to one or more local or remote destinations using FTP or SFTP (Secure FTP). |
| Distributions |
Publish multiple versions of the same content, each with its own unique settings. Define any number of settings to influence template output for complete control over version logos, branding, colors, layout and more. |
| Backups |
Archive backups manually or on a schedule. A remote repository may also be configured for additional redundancy. |
| Updates |
Apply software upgrades and bug fixes from the web interface with minimal downtime and full backward compatibility. |
Features for developers
| Feature |
Benefit
|
| Content types |
Design and manage any type of content as a combination of text, numbers, dates, times, HTML, files (documents, images, audio, video, etc.) and more. Create content hierarchies, references and methods with "object oriented" features. |
| Automatic forms |
Build and automatically update data entry forms as a content type is created and changed. Contributors can enter, upload and preview any content type without specially designed forms or templates. |
| COMAND Script |
Insert, link, list and manipulate content stored in or outside of webCOMAND using powerful, intuitively designed instructions. |
| Perl |
Use Perl-enabled COMAND Script statements to format and manipulate content. |
| Templates |
Define web page layout and formatting using standard HTML (or any other markup or scripting language) and COMAND Script. |
| Publication procedures |
Control exactly how webCOMAND produces different types of web pages and files from content records in the repository. |
| Import/export procedures |
Read and write data in local or remote repositories. Support multiple text formats, database connectors and transfer protocols. Manipulate data as it is transferred. Process it once or schedule future or recurring times. |
