[opencms-dev] Features needed: does openCMS cover them all?

[Peter Dawkins]

Hi Cyrill
we went through a thorough selection process and chose openCMS based on the
kind of criteria you are looking at.


>>non-technical users can create content with a browser, using templates and
>>depending on security settings they have been granted
yes, openCMS is very strong on this

>>workflow for review and approval of created content
yes, but workflow not tightly integrated with content creation/update
process

>>possibility of "dating" created content (for both release and expiry)
partial, won't automatically remove content or store in pending state for
future publishing

>>audit trail available for created content (who modified what and when)
yes, audits show on publishing rather than creation however

>>deployment of content to a "static" server (i.e. Apache without Tomcat,
for instance)
yes, good support for static exports

rgds
Peter
-----Original Message-----
From: opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org
[mailto:opencms-dev-admin at opencms.org]On Behalf Of Cyrille Bonnet
Sent: 12 July 2004 11:56
To: opencms-dev at opencms.org
Subject: [opencms-dev] Features needed: does openCMS cover them all?


Hi there,

We are looking for a CMS for one of our clients. Preferably, it would be
Java-based and open source.

The features we are looking for are:

* non-technical users can create content with a browser, using templates and
depending on security settings they have been granted
* workflow for review and approval of created content
* possibility of "dating" created content (for both release and expiry)
* audit trail available for created content (who modified what and when)
* deployment of content to a "static" server (i.e. Apache without Tomcat,
for instance)

My question is: can openCMS do that out of the box? Some of that? Does it
require extra development?

We have looked at Plone and all these features are implemented (except the
deployment, I believe), but it is Python based, which is a big minus for our
client.

Thanks in advance for your replies.

Cyrille.


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