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Core Features

  • Clean, powerful UI, works on most standard desktop browsers
  • Functionality a natural, elegant extension to MVC
  • Leaves you to build your own markup, doesn't interfere with MVC's presentation system
  • Object oriented content structure, with inheritance, fields which are arbitrary lists or other defined content types, references to other content objects, and interfaces to indicate support for a certain functionality
  • Content editor UI deals with all this structure e.g. lists and sublists, and is customisable for new types and functions
  • Collate data from different sources onto one content record
  • Share values across multiple data records
  • Powerful method for relating content items
  • Editor shown beside the edited page when logged in: use site navigation to find your content pages
  • Customisable list/detail editor and system for working with lists of content data
  • Access lists of data with OData queries
  • Media and uploaded file manager with folder management
  • Data stored in SQL server as normal data tables (which can already exist) or JSON structured data with metadata
  • Data layer can have providers built for any data source, and maps different content types to different data sources
  • Clean and logical data layer API for site code
  • Data layer queries using Linq
  • Module system allowing modification of behaviour of UI and data layer, powerful enough to add features like publishing
  • Generic versioning system
  • Global event system allows interception of all reads and writes plus many other operations
  • User maintenance screen
  • Single user system for site users and editors
  • Client code and modules can add fields to core data records e.g. content metadata, user information
  • Drop content management functionality into an existing project: Lynicon does not take over any MVC extension points.
  • Attach content management to existing data sources e.g. provide web editing to existing SQL database tables
  • Customisable filter system for analysing and listing data in UI and generating reports on it
  • Protection against content data structure changes which could lose data
  • Editor warns of clashing changes when two people try and edit the same content record
  • Editor warns of internet loss or session expiry, protecting unsaved edits
  • Extensive documentation

Basic Module Package

  • Search system based on arbitrary content properties built on Lucene.Net
  • Choice of total or 'summary' in-memory caches, for super fast page generation
  • Url management: 301 redirect, canonical url management, custom page urls
  • Content publishing (public and editor private versions of content)
  • Content transfer between CMS sites
  • Automatic sitemap
  • Deleted content items archived and recoverable
  • Content change tracking
  • Custom site configuration page in CMS
  • Simple custom report generation
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