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Hello,
I have a particular need for a CMS, explained below, and i was hoping the community would be able to tell me if Concrete5 would help me achieve my goals either with the core installation or with available mods.
I am currently in need of a CMS to hold several of the same type of page, so it should preferably be able to have a page template that can be reused. Each page should have an application name, uploaded document files related to it, the servers in which these apps are running on, and support contacts related to that application (especially the contacts should be stored in a database since we reuse many of them and bind them to different of this application pages).
Also if possible, the search results need to display particular fields of those pages, being able to search by server/system, contacts, applications. (Preferable, not necessary)
And finally, it should be possible to edit each page and the related information directly on that page or link to the edit page from there, instead of using an admin panel (Only for these pages, templates and any other admin information can use an admin page). (Also preferable, not necessary)
Thank you very much reading and any help you can provide, i really appreciate it!
Nick.
I have a particular need for a CMS, explained below, and i was hoping the community would be able to tell me if Concrete5 would help me achieve my goals either with the core installation or with available mods.
I am currently in need of a CMS to hold several of the same type of page, so it should preferably be able to have a page template that can be reused. Each page should have an application name, uploaded document files related to it, the servers in which these apps are running on, and support contacts related to that application (especially the contacts should be stored in a database since we reuse many of them and bind them to different of this application pages).
Also if possible, the search results need to display particular fields of those pages, being able to search by server/system, contacts, applications. (Preferable, not necessary)
And finally, it should be possible to edit each page and the related information directly on that page or link to the edit page from there, instead of using an admin panel (Only for these pages, templates and any other admin information can use an admin page). (Also preferable, not necessary)
Thank you very much reading and any help you can provide, i really appreciate it!
Nick.
Hi Nick,
I would suggest taking a quick look at some docs:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/...
On the right-hand side you'll see what you are basically asking about: Page Types (and their Defaults), all of the "fields" you want to relate to them are called Attributes.
The advanced search you are looking for would take some custom coding, but is called a Single Page.
You can find more in-depth information on these topics in the Developer's Index:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/...
To answer your overall question, concrete5 can certainly do all of these things. You might also want to take a look at Composer (although calling it "concrete5's built-in blogging tool" is quite confusing):
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/dashboard/pa...
If you like videos, there are many available by playlists:
http://www.youtube.com/user/concrete5cms/videos?view=1&flow=gri...
Hope that helps,
John
I would suggest taking a quick look at some docs:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/...
On the right-hand side you'll see what you are basically asking about: Page Types (and their Defaults), all of the "fields" you want to relate to them are called Attributes.
The advanced search you are looking for would take some custom coding, but is called a Single Page.
You can find more in-depth information on these topics in the Developer's Index:
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/developers/...
To answer your overall question, concrete5 can certainly do all of these things. You might also want to take a look at Composer (although calling it "concrete5's built-in blogging tool" is quite confusing):
http://www.concrete5.org/documentation/using-concrete5/dashboard/pa...
If you like videos, there are many available by playlists:
http://www.youtube.com/user/concrete5cms/videos?view=1&flow=gri...
Hope that helps,
John
Thanks for taking a look at concrete5. I'm not sure if you are aware, but we have a free hosted trial that will get you up and running with a concrete5 site in less than a minute.
http://www.concrete5.org/about/trial/...
Best Wishes,
Mike