Feature overview

icoya OpenContent offers a lot of valuable features, an easy-to-use interfache and an excellent support of multiple languages for text, graphics and data.

Among the main features of icoya OpenContent are:

  • Optimized user interface:
     Every editor has its own workspace, where he or she can access release lists, favourites, and references to documents by one simple mouse click. The graphical user interface is completely bilingual (English and German) and the desired language can be switched by simply selecting the language with one click. Additional languages are available (French, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, and others). The menus for file and image selections have been improved as well: both now offer an integrated search engine, that simplifies the search for specific documents as well as media files in huge databases.

  • SymLink technology:
    The object type "SymLink" enables users to use content in icoya OpenContent more than once in different, user-defined locations, e.g. on the internet and the intranet, although the content is still managed centrally in one file. This is achieved by the use of shortcuts, enabling the publication of one document at several locations within the portal, and so substantially improving the flexibility of content integration and simplifying content administration.

  • Shadow functionality:
    The icoya shadow function for documents allows the editing of already released and published documents as a "shadow" version. Changes in this shadow version are only visible after another successive publication. By editing a published document, the shadow-function automatically creates a copy of the respective document which can be edited, while leaving the original, published version unchanged, until a future publication action. The document can be edited and released according to the flexible icoya workflow - content will be updated only after a new release. The shadow-function offers the highest possible flexibility in the process of editing and releasing content and assures furthermore the consistency of published content.

  • Platform independend WYSIWYG editor:
    Built-in WYSIWYG (What-You-See-Is-What-You-Get) editors support most operating systems including Windows, Linux, Mac-OS, Solaris, BSD, HP-UX and more.

  • Multi-Language Extension:
     icoya OpenContent with Multi-Language Extension allows the comfortable management of internationalised (localised) internet- and intranet portals by built-in multi-language functionality for the simultaneous administration of content (documents, menus, graphics etc.) in any language. This includes Asian languages as well.

  • Unlimited database size:
    icoya databases are not limited in size. The actual maximum database size may be limited by the operating system and file system (2TB for Windows NTFS, 4TB for Linux Ext2FS and Ext3FS, 16TB for Linux RaiserFS, 32PB (Petabytes) for IBM JFS, 1TB for Solaris 9, 128GB for HP-UX 10.20,11.x)

Key features of icoya OpenContent:
  • Browser-based with WYSIWYG-Editor (fully CSS conform)
  • WYSIWYG-Editor for IE and platform independent for Mozilla (for Unix, Linux, Windows and Mac-OS)
  • User extensible, multi-language template library
  • Star Office and OpenOffice.org integration allows to create and publish Web content using StarOffice/OpenOffice
  • Automatic generation of thumbnails and buttons
  • Server-side image re-scaling
  • Dynamically generated navigation structures
  • Subskins for different layouts only on parts of the portal
  • Integrated online help system
  • Integrated media management for pictures and multimedia files
  • Build-in high-performance XML-processing
  • Time-constrained publishing of content and documents
  • Automatic generation of menus, document lists, and sitemap
  • Extensible team-based workflow with publication and notification functions
  • User-management with rights allocation and roles
  • One-click installation for web server and database
  • Unlimited database size (depending on operating system)
  • Extensively scalable
  • Multi-language support (optional)


Technical details:

  • Handling using only a web browser, no extra software installation is required:
    - platform independent WYSIWYG Editor: by using Mozilla and Netscape 7, documents can be created with the icoya WYSIWYG editor on all platforms
    - HTML WYSIWYG editor for MS IE 5.5 or above
  • Live preview: contents can be displayed in the given context before publication
  • Image browser and multimedia database
  • Dynamically generated graphical navigation structures with font rendering (TrueType, Postscript, Bitmap)
  • Upload images and files via browser, WebDAV or FTP
  • Document creation is based on templates, requires no HTML knowledge for content creation
  • Easy text-based HTML editing, re-structured text supported
  • Automatic HTML
  • Adapt site layouts by using customised templates (your own) or pre-defined templates from our catalogue
  • Strict separation of content and layout
  • Import of existing HTML pages
  • Integrated full text and metadata search
  • Time-constrained publishing of content (scheduler)
  • Unlimited number of projects and portals
  • Backup functionality: import/export of complete projects and sites
  • Role based user management with access control and optional LDAP support
  • WebDAV support for external editors
  • Unicode support (UTF-8/16),
  • Definable metadata and keywords
  • Delivery of static and dynamic web pages. Dynamic layout generation with page template (XHTML-compliant),
  • (X)HTML compliant page templates for layout and generation of dynamic pages:
    - create and edit icoya page templates using any HTML editor, like Macromedia Dreamweaver (WYSIWYG editing)
    - no incompatible tags, 100% HTML compliant
  • Dynamic generation of various formats like (X)HTML, WML or XML
  • Supported Internet standards: XML, XSLT, XHTML, HTML, SOAP, LDAP, XML-RPC, FTP, WebDAV, HTTP, LDAP and more
  • Interfaces for various database systems like Oracle 8/9, MS-SQL Server, Postgres, MySQL, etc.
  • Optional: Apache2 HTTP Server with SSL Security (128/168-Bit) for Windows
  • Optional: Multi-language support
  • One click installation of additional plug-in modules
  • Supported operating systems:
    Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, Linux on x86, Linux on PPC,
    FreeBSD or OpenBSD on x86, Sun Solaris 7/8/9 on sparc
    IBM AIX 4/5L, HP-UX 11/11i on PA-RISC
    HP Tru64 (OSF1) on Alpha, Sun Solaris 7/8/9 on x86,
    HP OpenVMS 7 on Alpha, SGI IRIX 6.5