On this page:

• Workflow Approval
• Security
• Audit Trail
• Reporting
• Authentication
• Publishing

Objectify CMS Administraton

Workflow Approval

The Objectify Content Management System has a review and approval workflow system that ensures pages are approved before they are published to the web server. Parties to the workflow include authors, reviewers and publishers, where one or more of these roles may be the responsibility of one person.

Workflow is used to ensure that only those pages that pass through the workflow approval process will be published on the live site. If a published page is changed, the existing version remains on the live site until the new version is approved and published to replace it.

Workflow is also used to manage the content in the media libraries. The workflow principle is the same for both pages and multimedia items. The flexibility of Objectify workflow means that certain workflow paths can be set for the entire site, intercepted for certain sections of the site, and be customised for certain authors of the site. Where a user might belong to a group, but actually needs different workflow settings for a section of/page in the site, they can be extracted from the group and have their own workflow set just for them. This individual workflow will override the group workflow.

Security

Objectify Security permissions are used by Site Administrators to ensure that authors are only allowed to make changes that they have the authority to.  For example, they may only be given view only Security permissions in all sections of the site other than their own.  In their own section they may have full Security permissions. Objectify CMS users must be assigned editing Security permissions to each page. Security can be inherited through out the site (from parent to child pages), making it simple for Site Administrators to establish important Security settings.

Audit Trail

The Objectify Site Administrator Audit Trail history automatically records each action performed and at the node level. The Audit Trail is accessed in Site Administrator displaying the Author, comments, date and action occurring at each individual page node within the site.

Reporting

Objectify provides reports on search terms analysis such as missing terms or nil results and popular terms. The Objectify CMS also reports on content currently checked out, in workflow, published changes, unpublished content and URL links. Any number of live site Reporting tools can be plugged into Objectify's live site to gather and report on website usage and statistics.

Authentication

Objectify Content Management System facilitates the ability to interface with external directory services for Security and authentication, using industry standard protocols.

Publishing

The Objectify Data Bridge is a two way data transfer between the Objectify CMS and Objectify Powered Live Sites. The Data Bridge is designed to work around common network topologies, as such no ports etc will need to be opened on your firewall back into your internal network.
The Data Bridge works over standard HTTP (and HTTPS) protocols, using both standard Authentication systems and also a more advanced Objectify proprietary Security sub layer. As the Data Bridge uses HTTP protocols it is also fully compatible with proxy servers.

Unauthorised access to the Data Bridge is impossible without the encryption keys. The Security of these files is crucial to the Security of the live site.
The encryption sub system works by serializing all web service xml traffic into a byte array, then encrypting to AES (Rijndael) using a 2048 bit key. AES is one of the most advanced encryption systems available to the public.