Concepts

The dotCommunity content management system is a tree like, hierarchical set of folders, pages, and rich media such as images, used to create the administrator controlled pages in the site. This page explains the concepts surrounding the CMS and acts as a glossary of terms used.

Items

All of the types of web page and rich content types an author can create are referred to as "items". Therefore in this documentation the word "item" can refer to a folder, a page, a news story or any of the types of asset available.

Assets

Assets are standalone electronic media used within complete pages created using the CMS. Some examples of assets include images, documents, and audio files.

Revisions

Each time an item is published a new version is created and stored separately. This allows the author or administrator to "roll-back" to an earlier version of a document if necessary and to create individual versions of a document to be used for specific periods of time. Each of these versions is referred to as a "revision".

Certain revisions have specific names within the documentation and administration interface:

• Current - The revision of the item that is being viewed by the author through the administration interface.
• Live - The revision of the item that is currently published on the administrators website, which is not necessarily the most up to date version.
• Latest - The newest revision of the item. If this revision is not published it is the one used when saving changes to the content. If it is published then a new latest revision will be created for saving changes.