Features

Core Features

Clean, powerful UI
Functionality a natural, elegant extension to MVC
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
Editor shown beside the edited page when logged in: use site navigation to find your content pages
Media and uploaded file manager with folder management
Edit content as a list with a detail pane
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 client 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 support for versioning systems
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