Features

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