Definitions

WEDIA Web Motion Software

The successful CMS NOHETO renamed WEDIA WMS.

WEDIA WMS is a Java CMS web solution. It is composed of :
- a multi-lingual and multi-site back office (ready to use with a nice personalized technology, available in english and french by default, but can be translated in other languages)
- a powerful and evolutive data model
- a set of identify plugins directly managed by the WEDIA WMS product team
- a front office skeleton for integrating your sites
- a front office exemple for using and discovering WEDIA WMS !
- a very complete technical administration back office (monitoring, backup, ...)

The main objective of Wedia WMS is to integrate one or many corporate, community or ecommerce websites very quickly with a standard Java technology.

WEDIA WMS based on a powerful technical engine able to manage cross media content. It supports issues such as clustering, security, object relational mapping persistence, administration tools,...See also the special requirements page for more technicals details.

WMS Data Model

Everything in WEDIA WMS is built on the data model in database. All the content types are up to date (category, article, news, blocks,...). But it's possible to add or customize content types if necessary by using web administration interface.

Multi-lingual Content

Publish information simultaneously on multiple Internet Sites in multiple languages. Each site have one or more languages. Each translated content has its own validation process. Full UTF-8 for asian languages,...

Each content can be share with other WEDIA WMS sites or others sites by REST architecture. 

Multi-Site Deployment

WEDIA WMS is a powerful site factory. The application is able to host multiple sites from one platform.

Sites may be based on the same graphic models (eg several country sites of the same company). They can also be based on completely different graphic models (eg several internet websites and several intranet sites of the same company).

This is the site model concept. 

The WEDIA WMS front office example

WMS comes with an example site. It includes standard features with a homepage managed by blocks, list and detail content templates, Web 2.0 functions (survey, comment,...) and some typical componants (breadcrumb, navigation menu, captcha,...).

Managers and architects can discover our product. Developers can learn how to develop with WEDIA WMS site.

Site

A WEDIA WMS site contains mainly contents and templates.

One site is defined primarily by:
- 1 name, 1 group and 1 site model
- the language settings
- the graphics settings like the "favico"
- the virtual host settings (for example : the http://en.yourdomainname.com link is automatically redirected to English homepage and the http://www.yourdomainname.fr link to French homepage)
- the web analytics settings (for exemple : Google Analytics)

Contents site can be shared or offered to other WEDIA WMS sites.

Site group

A site group allows linking sites belonging to the same functional family (eg country sites, local sites, trademark sites, ...). Content of a group site can be natively shared to another site of the same group (animation blocks, assets,...).

Site model

Each site is based on one site model.

A site model contains:
- a layout (including a set of css) 
- a template list that can be used by sites based on this model

Site model can be used for skinning sites.

WEDIA WMS can manage 1 or more sites models (example : RH Intranet Model, Marketting Intranet Model, Spring or Christmas Skins, ...).

User & Role

Each WEDIA WMS back office user has :
- a role for a site (writer on the first site, webmaster on the second site,...)
- an interface language preference

He can contributed in one or more languages. He can have some restricted categories for contribution.

WEDIA WMS offers pre-defined roles:
- writor can create content.
- webmaster can create, validate, publish and manage media library.
- functional adminisrateur can create users, etc ...

The technical administrator can do everything. This is the WEDIA WMS super user.

The role strategy can be decline in front office to create personal spaces.

Category

A WEDIA WMS category is an animation or navigation page. It's linked to a template. Each category has a number of properties, such as Title, URL, Meta tags and so on.
After selecting the template, the writer can fill the appropriate fields (headlines, text, images, links,...). A site can have many categories.

WEDIA WMS generates the Google sitemap based on categories.

Content

Content types such article or block are used to produce editorial and animation contents. All of them are a WEDIA WMS content object specialization.

Each content type can :
- be linked to 1 or several templates
- be translated in languages
- shared with other site in the group.
- be published and archived

All usual content types are already presents : article, category and block. But you can add your own content types or customize the existing using web administration interface.