Enhancing CMS User Experience
Mediasurface, provider of Enterprise Content Management software released Mediasurface 4.7.
“Mediasurface 4.7 focuses on providing capabilities to further enhance the business user’s experience of managing their content through Mediasurface” comments Stewart Manley, Chief Technology Officer, Mediasurface
Primary enhancements in this version
Mediasurface 4.7 brings the functionality of Mediasurface Knowledge Management to the hands of content authors and editors, say the developers.
When creating or updating content using the CMC, Mediasurface’s content contribution interface, the author can now request the generation of a summary of that content using the theme summarisation feature. In this way, the author can harness the power of a tailored business knowledge base to generate an abstract or “gist” of the content. This eliminates the need for the author to create content abstracts “by hand” – or rely on the simplistic and often misleading extraction of the opening sentences from an article -- and so improves productivity, accuracy and searchability.
Java Management Extension (JMX) Interface
Version 4.7 improves the management and monitoring of the Mediasurface Application Engine with introduction of a JMX compliant interface. Reporting on and managing a number of Mediasurface operational areas, including caches, logging and job scheduling, this interface allows key Mediasurface parameters to be modified and reported through a suitable management console while the server is fully operational – a key requirement for any component of an enterprise infrastructure.
Compound Documents
Truly composite content can now be created and managed with Mediasurface 4.7. This release adds support for compound documents – content items that contain other content items, such as an article constructed of individual sections, which might be owned by different authors. This enables new types of content to be stored and managed within Mediasurface and offers the opportunity to rationalise the way business users manage content to a single platform. These “containment” relationships can then be used through high-performance programming interfaces during content delivery, allowing these compound documents to be assembled dynamically at run time rather than authoring time.
Additionally, Mediasurface 4.7 allows authors of XML content to preview their documents through user-defined XSL templates, so that they can see how they will be delivered to the end user.
Image Manipulation
4.7 offers a range of system based image manipulation capabilities, including the ability to resize, crop, reformat images within the Mediasurface application. These features can be used, for example, to remove the need to hand-generate and store multiple versions of the same image, instead automatically generating multiple versions from a single master, so once again reducing the work required by content contributors.
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