Feature confirmation.

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5/9/2010 1:22:29 AM
Farax
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Feature confirmation.

Hi, 

I have been looking for an opensource CMS for some time now and I must say that I am impressed by what mojoportal offers. However, I have some rigid requirements and since I have not yet run the CMS locally, I am not sure if it would be able to satisfy my requirements completely. I thought I might just as well drop a comment to confirm if certain things are possible. 

1) Does MojoPortal have the ability to internally stage content before publishing it? Are multiple approval roles supported like an internet site manager approving a page before it can be published?

2) Do pages have specific entry and expiry date features?

3) I am particulary most concerned about multiple language support as I have a site I want in Arabic in addition to English. Having gone through the localization section of tutorials, I realize that I would have to create separate versions of websites. Would that mean that I would have to create separate databases as well? and then there would be coherency issues between the two different data types? So lets say a comment was posted in Arabic in a forum managed using MojoPortal, how would that appear in the English forum? 

4) How easy is it to change the 'theme' of the whole website using mojoportal?

5) How easy is to integrate mojoportal with an existing website?

I understand if these features do not exist they would be easy to implement. Just need your confirmation if a senior .NET developer like myself would be able to do that with considerable ease?

 

Thanks for your help, 

Cheers

5/10/2010 8:51:51 AM
Joe Audette
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Re: Feature confirmation.

Hi,

1. Content can be created on private pages protected by roles and then published by changing the allowed view roles to all users. There is also a content workflow with role based approval but mainly for the Html content feature, it is not yet implemented in other features.

2. No pages do not, but content features on a page can be scheduled for publishing and expiration. Really having content expire is not the greatest idea in terms of SEO. Once the content is indexed by search engines you don't typically want to remove it and have broken links or pages not found. Cool urls don't change and don't go away.

3. You can host multiple sites using 1 installation and 1 database. It is possible to share users and roles across sites in an installation but it is not currently possible to share content across sites other than by exposing and consuming RSS feeds (and then only the features that support RSS). There is no storage of translations for specific content items. A forum instance in one site is not related at all to a forum instance in another site. If  a user posts in the forum it will appear only in that forum and it will be in the language that the user posted it in.

4. Very easy, try demo.mojoportal.com, go to Admnistration > Site Settings, you can browse and choose a skin which changes the entire appearance.

5. Probably not easy, mojoportal is meant to be the framework for an entire site, there is no magic glue for integrating things it requires knowledge of both things you are trying to integrate to come up with an integration strategy or determine how much effort is involved.

Hope it helps,

Joe

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