Serendipity
Objective Internet of Basingstoke Hampshire has released a new version of its Serendipity Content Management System.

The new version uses the Adobe Coldfusion MX feature set, bringing more speed and extensibility with even more ease of use.

Serendipity provides the Content Manager with a degree of flexibility in administering their content in News or Publication centric environments, managing common business, documents, practices and processes on the Web utilising Content and Workflow management features. This is achieved by driving the web page menus directly from the structure of content stored in the Microsoft SQL 2000 database server.

Content Management

Serendipity management features make managing content on the web easier and eliminates the need for special tools. Content can be added or changed directly using a standard web browser thereby enabling protected access from any location.

Workflow

Managing the creation and deployment process for content and product items is simplified with customisable workflow templates.

Workflow templates can be associated with particular site assets, e.g. creating product promotions or press releases, or handling an incoming customer service request.

Features include:
  • facilitate the collection of information in electronic format
  • task notifications communicated via email, fax, pager or SMS
For Content Editors:
  • Full CSS Support
  • Visual CSS Selector
  • Table Creation & Management
  • Image/File upload
  • Server Side Image Explorer
  • Sharpen, Filter and Resize Images
  • Spell Checker
  • Custom Dictionaries
Compatibility:
  • Compatible with MSIE 6.0, Mozilla 1.4+ and Firefox 1.0
  • Generates XHTML compliant code
Productivity:
  • Word Cleaner to simplify HTML content pasted from Word
  • enable greater transparency, making decisions more visible to citizens
  • provide a seamless interface that links all tiers of government with the
  • asynchronous, multi-person, multitask dependency support task
  • escalation and prioritisation capabilities