[silva-dev] plans for reference management

[kit blake]

May be interesting to see the following description of our 'sister 
CMS' eZ Publish and its link management. I know Sandro Zic from OSCOM.
kit


Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 11:33:47 +0200
From: Sandro Zic <sz at ez.no>
Subject: Re: [OSCOM] CMS Choices --link management
To: Michele Ann Jenkins <maj at majink.org>
Cc: general at oscom.org
Message-ID: <425B95FB.2080306 at ez.no>
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Hi!

Michele Ann Jenkins wrote:

>>(currently in FrontPage <ugh>) to a CMS and one feature that keeps
>>coming up is link management. 


eZ publish got a powerful link management, the main features:

* URL Translator *

The URL translator is a very useful feature that let you write more
browser friendly and user-friendly urls. You can rewrite system urls
like content/view/full/42 to /services. You can also use the URL
translator for forwarding an old url to its new location.

* Link checker *

Via cronjob or manually, you can check external links for validity.
Links are automatically extracted from any content and placed in a
separate list. That way, a link only needs to be modified at one place
to propagate the changes to any content containing the link.

* Internal linking *

The forthcoming release 3.6.0 ships with an enhanced internal linking
system. It allows to move around content objects which are linked from
within content without breaking the link. Find more infos in the spec:
http://www.ez.no/community/developer/specs/improved_related_objects
The related new version of the eZ publish Online Editor will provide a
WYSIWYG GUI for simple editing of internal links.


>>Any suggestions for something that includes most of the features below
>>plus some form of link management? I've looked at Magnolia, Bricolage,
>>Drupal, and a few others... I'm also interested in systems with easy
>>import of legacy content, either in an XML format (I know Bric takes
>>SOAP imports nicely) or something else to speed up the migration
>>process.


SOAP in eZ publish? Yes, just like any cool CMS :)

A generic XML import extension is available as a community contribution:
http://www.ez.no/community/contribs. Building your own import module is
not a big thing if you know PHP.

Many more (not all) eZ publish features are listed here:
http://www.ez.no/ez_publish/documentation/general_information/what_is_ez_publish/the_main_key_features_of_ez_publish

Cheers!
Sandro

-- Director of Scientific and Educational Relations sz at ez.no | eZ 
systems | www.ez.no