Users guide

The content mangement system cmsWorks stores data in documents, which are organized in a folder structure. The folder and document names usually correspond to the URLs of the websites filled with the content of these documents.

Users create documents and establish relationships between documents. They change document contents, writing head lines, texts, lists, tables, uploading images and other media and checking the results in a preview of the generated content (i.e. a HTML web page). Then, after approval the changes can be published so that they are accessible online immediately.

With a version management the content of documents can be compared to previous published versions.

The individual fields of a document are defined in document types. In the document type management, document types can be created and adapted for various purposes. The content-related, organizational or administrative document types can be individually equipped with properties of different types in an appropriate order.

Users can be created, changed or deactivated and they can be assigned to user groups, which define different roles in the system and therefore assign different privileges.

Several tools enable the search for documents and document relationships using various search criteria. Even the automated creation of content via a scripting engine is supported.

This users guide of cmsWorks gives you an overview of how to manage contents, users and workflows within cmsWorks.

Chapter overview

This users manual contains five main chapters:

• At first the login screen and to the dialogs that help to manage user data is introduces.
• The next chapter deals with the "content" explaining as how to create, find, change and publish this very content.
• Some extra tools enable a faster access to the content, that is described in this chapter.
• The administration dialogues allow to structure contents or manage users and their privileges.
• The last chapter is a collection of cheat sheets and common best practice examples which come in very handy when advancing by using cmsWorks.

Who should read this manual

• Editors writing contents and composing them for publication
• Administrators who are defining the structures to meet the requirements
• User - administrators creating and managing user accounts and handling user privileges
• Developers creating the presentation of the data in websites (or an other output format) or creating ContentScripts to automate and ease the use for editors