Content Management System

Content Management System: The CMS product allows users to administrate the website, and binds together all Bryce Web Group products, as well as 3rd party applications. Features include: user management / portal, universal login, universal look and feel, automatically...

Media page: A media page acts as a link to a media asset such as an MP3 file. You can link to local assets or remote assets on external websites. When a media page appears in an RSS feed, the RSS feed automatically becomes a Podcast RSS feed. This applies...

How can I add navigation to a page?Tabstrip: The tabstrip plug-in allows you to embed CMS pages into a single page. The user on the website can then select a tab to display page content dynamically. This is often useful for showing large amounts of content that is related on a single page....

Site Map: The Site Map plugin automatically generates a map based upon the "Show In Navigation" global property of pages. This helps search engines find pages on your website, as well as advanced users who know what they are looking for. You can configure...

How can I create a Form for my page?Form Builder Plugin: The Form Builder plugin is a powerful tool to generate forms for use on your site. This application has a host of useful functions, and will allow your Association to have a one-stop-shop for all your form building needs. The Form Builder...

Form Builder Plugin: The Formerful form tool plugin is a powerful tool to generate forms for use on your site. This application has a host of useful functions, and will allow your Association to have a one-stop-shop for all your form building needs. The Formerful...

How can I interact with other members?Page Property / Layout Inheritance: All pages in the CMS have two types of properties: Global Properties - properties that all pages contain equally. These may only be on/off flags, and can be applied recursively, using the Save & Apply to Children button. Private...

Public Comments: Public comments are an extension of Private Comments / Public Ratings plug-in. This documentation is separated for clarity. Public comments are displayed on the website, unlike Private comments. Public comments are also nestable for a reply...

How can I make lists in a page?Article List: The Article List WYSIWYG Plug-in is extremely flexible and powerful. It is designed to allow the creation of dynamic lists of articles, which update automatically upon the creation of new Article Pages. Articles Pages can be of these page...

Query List: Solving Unique Problems One issue that is recurring is that advanced users want more automation and integration with data that is displayed on the website. A powerful new Query List WYSIWYG plug-in has been developed which will enable users to...

Gadget List: The Gadget List allows you to reference any CMS page as a Gadget. This can be used for Applications, Topics, RSS Readers, etc. Overview The Gadget List is a WYSIWYG plug-in that can be inserted into any page type. It can be referenced on a...

RSS Reader List: The RSS Reader List WYSIWYG plug-in allows you to list RSS feeds from external websites in a way very similarly to Article Lists. Overview RSS Reader Lists have most of the same features as Article Lists. One nice feature is the ability to...

Event List: This documentation will show you how to use the Events List Plugin. An Event List on your website can be used to maximize member experience through interest based matching of users to events they will find interesting. Events lists can be...

Page Icon: Page icons are a way to display a quick, topical image for your article, to draw your users' attention by giving them a visual cue as to the content of the article. Page icons can be set in the General tab of the WYSIWYG editor. A file can be...

How can I personalize my CMS experience?Page Editing Reminders: CMS Page Reminders allow one to set a specific date on which to remind staff of a specific CMS role that a page needs to be updated. This can be done in the Edit Draft screen. At the specified time, all users under the selected CMS role will...

Favorite Links: Favorite Links is a personalized list of links that the user can modify, which displays on every page, allowing the user to select a link at any time. Personalized links can be made in accessible in many ways. An example is below: The add...

How can I put ads on my page?Ad Rotator: The Ad Rotator plug-in can be inserted into any page or panel in the CMS. This allows you to display a list of images with variable durations and start / end dates. This can be used for images other than advertisements, for example, on your...

Resumes/Internships: The Resume/Internship solution allows users to submit their resumes and make them searchable for employers. It provides your members with an avenue to get their name out to the right people in their field, without having to worry about their...

How can I reach out to the community?RSS Feeds and Podcasts: The CMS is heavily oriented towards RSS and provides several methods to expose this on your website. Central RSS feeds Article List RSS feeds Event List RSS feeds Podcasts for any of the above Items listed in RSS feeds can be one of the...

Advocacy Contact Plugin: This streamlined plugin allows members to easily communicate with their current legislative contacts regarding issues your Society or Association is monitoring. It provides you with a way to encourage advocacy on the part of your members without...

How can I take courses?Online Self Study: The e-Course Self Study application is a powerful tool to provide on-demand study materials and testing services to your members. It combines the user flexibility of remote testing with customized test content. Tests and surveys...

Exam Tracker: The Exam Tracker application is used to help members organize their exam schedules and remind them of score expiration dates by e-mail notifications. This document will guide you through the application from a member and administrator point of...

How can I use different page types?Website Page: The Website page type allows you to create rules for multiple websites existing within the same CMS instance. This can be used for creating mobile websites, or other websites with different domains that should be given specific page branches...

Server Side Page: The Server Side page allows you to run legacy software and 3rd party applications transparently within the CMS environment. Advantages This allows you to take advantage of several features built into the CMS: Editing code files using drafts...

Wiki Page: The Wiki page has many features similar to a standard Wiki application; though, closely integrated with the CMS. Features Table of Contents: Automatically derived table of contents groups HTML Heading tags together in linear order as anchor links...

Text File Page: Text File Pages are designed to allow editing of a physical text file on the server. Although permissions must be changed appropriately for the CMS to edit the file, there is no additional configuration required for updating the files through the...

Versions Page: The Versions page type is available to allow your site to have specific, targeted content for the public, non-members and members; depending on their account type and whether they're logged in or not, users will see different content. This...

How can I use multi-media on my site?Image Gallery: The Image Gallery allows you to display a simple but elegant gallery of images on your website. This gallery provides fade effects and automatic navigation for the user; though, appearance and behavior is customizable with CSS / JS. Adding /...

How do I manage page access?Restricted Access: The SocietyNet Restricted Access plugin allows restricting user access by: User / Member, Firm, Committee, etc.
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How do I use the CMS?Home Tab: The Home tab allows users to access their gadgets and the Website Tree, as well as allowing Administrators to access the Panels and file uploader.

Content Tab: The Content tab allows Editors to change Global Metadata layouts, Content Templates, Code Snippets and Layouts. The Administrator has access to all these features, plus RSS Channels, the Content Analyzer, Web Experience, Ratings, Comments and...

Users Tab: The Users tab allows Administrators access to Member, Non-Member and User accounts, CMS Role access capabilities, Secret Questions and User Favorites.

Apps Tab: The Apps tab allows quick access to any applications set up under the Systems tab.

System Tab: The System tab allows advanced access to CMS functions for the Administrator. It includes access to CMS Settings, a way to set up Apps, Controls, the Edit-Lock function, Redirects, the Recycle bin, Logs and CMS Data!

AM4 Synchronization: The CMS synchronizes with AM4 every 24 hours, usually at night. If you would like to synchronize sooner than that, you can execute this function. This function requires administrator access rights.

What can a CMS user role do?Administrator Tutorial: Administrators are the keepers of the website. They control all of the media and articles that become a part of the website. They have the article writing capabilities of an Author role , the page editing capabilities and access to layout,...

Editor Tutorial: An Editor is capable of both creating and editing pages and publishing them to the website. They are also able to edit pages they did not create. Editors have more control over the content of the website than Authors. An Editor will have a few...

Author Tutorial: Authors are restricted to writing articles and editing their own articles. They are restricted from editing any other portion of the website. All articles written by an author must be approved by an editor or administrator before they can be...

What can I do when I add or edit pages?Website Tree: The CMS Home allows the user to access the Website Tree. A user can navigate to a page by clicking on it in the tree. The Website Tree can be expanded fully, or collapsed based on the user's needs for navigation through the Tree. The user can...

Take Website Offline: It is sometimes necessary to take your CMS website offline for maintenance. This guide will help you to selectively take website applications offline, or the entire website. Open IIS (Control Panel > Administrative Tools > IIS). Notice the...

CMS Home: The CMS Home is the portion of the default CMS display after logging in. It shows you pages needing the user's attention, and recently viewed pages. You can view any of the pages listed by clicking the name of the article. On the top of the CMS...

Edit a Page: Editing is changing the content of a page, and can be done multiple ways. This How To walks a user through editing a page.

Add a Page: Adding a page in the CMS is something any user role is capable of doing. There are multiple ways to add a page, and they are as follows: The Website Tree can be used to create pages as well. An Author may locate in the Website Tree where...

Copy Page Property: Administration The Add Page Property function allows you to duplicate properties from one CMS page and place them in another CMS page. This is useful for overriding specific behavior of any plugin that checks for overriding properties. For...

Extended Page Titles: For the purpose of search engine optimization, and enriched content description, extended page titles have been added. The extended page title can be accessed when editing any page type, under the Long Name field. This Long Name is used as the...

Private Comments / Content Ratings: Comments / Ratings The CMS includes Comments / Ratings functionality. This is built into the system and can work with any page type. This allows users to Rate a page's content, and add an internal comment associated with the rating. Pages can...

Copy / Paste Pages: It is often useful to duplicate pages inside the CMS for duplicating page structures with similar content. For this you can use the CMS Copy / Paste page function. Copying Pages When you select Copy Pages from the Website Tree context menu, you...

Batch Operations: The CMS supports several batch operations using the Website Tree: Editing - Edit one page at a time, iterating through the selected list until completion Viewing Details - View details for one page at a time, iterating through the selected list...

Live Edit: Live edit is a feature of the CMS that allows you to login to the website, and modify content simply by clicking "Edit Page Content" or "Edit Panel Content". Administrators are the only CMS user type that can modify panel content. Live Edit...

Content Analyzer: The content analyzer is a tool built into the CMS that tracks the status of links within all content in the CMS. You can find it in the tabs in the CMS below: (note that this is generally an administrative tool, and will not be present for...

E-mail Forms: You can send e-mail in the CMS by using a Code Snippet called, "Form: E-mail": Once you insert this into the WYSIWYG, there are four important fields you must set values for: The top four input fields must be set. You can set these values by...

Making Application Pages Editable: An Application Page is a page in the CMS that represents a physical file with a ".aspx" extension that is external to the CMS; but has been integrated. You can define editable areas within Application Pages in the CMS. This requires a set of...

What can I do with Search Functions?Sharp Search: Sharp Search tool generates useful and relevant search results on the first try of any search, even going so far as to provide real-time AJAX feedback, which provides users results as they type out their search term. Pages in the CMS can be...

CMS Data!: The CMS Data! feature allows you to search/sort/view/edit/create/delete records in most CMS/SocietyNet database tables. This is a valuable tool for advanced users who want to drill down directly into data and make changes; as well as average...

Web Experience / Segments / Topics: The concept of web experience is that various CRM or legacy data can be imported and applied to website content. This integration also allows for users on your website to have content they are interested in prioritized or filtered in Article and...

Search Statistics: The CMS supports rudimentary search logs that include User ID, Keyword, and the result Count. To request that the Search Statistics feature be enabled, contact support. Doug Shaner at the MACPA provided this query for periodic statistics: --This...

Popular Pages / Events / Searches: The popularity feature tracks all views by user tier: Public Non-Member Member CMS User These views are tracked in the following categories: Pages views (all page types) Events views (all events) Website searches Event searches Product searches...

Superseding Search Keywords: All pages in the CMS, while editing, under the Information tab, have a superseding search keywords property. This will give that specific page the highest priority for the specified keywords. The Superseding Search Keywords can be set under the...

Global Redirects: Global Redirects are a feature created to extend the capability of Friendly Urls by allowing the creation of a Url that is redirected to another Url. This is primarily intended for shortcuts and persisting links from existing websites. This...

What software can I integrate into my webpage?Yet Another Forum .NET: YAF is an open source forum project written in ASP.NET. It is a fully featured forum that has matured over many years. Highly recommended for typical forum applications with our CMS project. Check out their website to learn more and see some...

Smarter Mail: Smarter Mail is a mail server and web access solution for your members. Some associations host member e-mails as a benefit of membership, which provides a professional means of communication for their customers. Installations feature use of the...

Blog Engine.NET: Blog Engine.NET is an open source Blog project written in ASP.NET. It has many features, and has been around for a few years now. You can find out more about Blog Engine.NET here: http://www.dotnetblogengine.net/ Create a support ticket...

Wiki Software: The CMS already features a Wiki page type, which allows all the features of a Wiki application, though it requires the user to have an account in the CMS in order to make changes. You can use built in CMS features such as page access restrictions...

WebBoard: AKIVA WebBoard is an ASP forum. WebBoard has been used due to the ability for forum threads to be driven by e-mails. It has been integrated using cookies, and batch SQL which runs every 2 minutes to assign permissions, account creation, etc. You...

Aptify: Aptify is a high-end CRM solution with heavily dynamic data capabilities. You can find out more about Aptify here: http://www.aptify.com/Home.aspx Aptify does not include a CMS product - for existing customers we recommend you continue using our...

vBulletin: vBulletin is a Forum written in PHP that runs on MySQL server. You can find out more about the forum product here: http://www.vbulletin.com/ Purchase the forum product and enter a support ticket.

Social Networking: The CMS already contains many social networking features: Public Comments Content Ratings Popular Pages (article list) Popular Events (events list) Wiki Page Type Integration with Forums Classifieds Resumes National Content Sharing Web Experience...

3rd Party Application Integration: If you have a compiled library, place it in the website /bin directory. Place your Web User Control file in a directory of your choice within the IIS Application. In the CMS, you can embed your Web User Control in several page types. For...

LAST UPDATED 9/14/2011

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