Kupu, a WYSIWYG editor running in Silva, people who work with Word should be comfortable with Kupu. This editor offers a load of new features:
Full Silva integration; Kupu knows about special Silva elements and saves Silva XML transparently.
Copy and paste HTML from any source (web page, word processor) into Kupu.
Works in Internet Explorer (5.5 and higher) and Mozilla.
Kupu was formerly known as Epoz 1.0.
Silva also has a fallback forms based editor.
The editors produce structured XML that is displayed as HTML in a
web page, or can be exported using the Docma extension (i.e. as
a MS Word document). This also future proofs the information.
Infinitely nested hierarchy of publications and folders to
structure content.
Metadata per content object. Metadata is extensible; new
metadata sets can be added. The metadata can be automatically
indexed by the Zope catalog.
Ability to place dynamic elements in structured documents
fetching information from a relational database or by calling a
script, using Data Sources.
All text stored as unicode, which means content in multiple
languages can be mixed in single documents freely.
Media
Images and files can be imported either singly or in bulk
through importing a zip file. Whole directory structures can
be imported creating Silva folders automatically.
Resize images for web publication. The original high resolution
images can still be exported for printing.
Silva now provides facilities for cropping images. This tool combines with the scaling possibilities to give authors the means to both scale and resize a high resolution image to web format.
Extensive abilities to position images in documents.
Support for Zope's External Editor allows editing files and
images through your favorite editor (including MS Office
applications).
User Interface
Has its own through-the-web user interface with easy access to
all features, including access keys. Authors can only access
sections relevant to authors, while editors and chief editors
gain more abilities in separate screens.
Also possible to descend to Zope user interface for fine-grained
control.
Workflow and versioning
Publication workflow: approval by (chief)editor is needed in
order to publish content. Content can be published as well as
expired automatically at a set time.
Versioning of content. Authors can work on new versions of
documents while a previous version remains published.
Editor can manage publication status of large quantities of
documents in one screen.
Silva can be configured to automatically send email to authors
and editors for workflow events.
Access management
Separation of responsibilities between author, editor and chief
editor roles.
Delegation of responsibilities. Editors can approve for
publication, chief editors can create new (chief) editors and
authors. No one-person bottleneck holding up publication.
LDAP connection is possible using LDAPUserFolder. Search
interface for people in LDAP when assigning roles, scaling to
large quantities of users.
Group management (with or without LDAP). Groups can be defined
in a LDAP or other data source, but can also be defined locally
in Zope, as desired.
Virtual groups to allow cross-sections between other groups.
IP Groups allow groups based on IP address, to allow access to
selective folders only from an intranet.
Ability to restrict content viewing access to individual users
or groups of users with Viewer, Viewer + and Viewer ++ roles.
Users who do not yet have access to edit objects can optionally
be allowed to request this in a user interface.
Documentation
Extensive documentation for author and editors, as well as for
site managers, designers and system administrators.
Documentation can be automatically installed.
Site management
Layout templates; flexible, customizable presentation using Zope
Page Templates. Different sub-sites can have different
publications and designs.
Configuration per publication making content
available for authors to add to and edit. It is also possible to completely disable
certain content site-wide.
Ghosts and Ghost folders allow presenting content in a different
context than which they are authored in. This allows storing
content in a structure paralleling that of the organization for
access rights distribution and delegation, but reusing the same
content inside topic oriented structures for web publication.
Virtual hosting support. Areas of the site can be exposed in a
separate virtual host for both viewing and authoring.
Table of contents (TOC) elements can be included in pages to
present the local structure of the site.
Link to manage references to external sites within the
table of contents.
All Silva assets (images and files) can be stored on the file system. This produces substantial performance increases.
SilvaNews (extension)
Create and manage news items in Silva.
News can be aggregated from various areas of the site,
reflecting the structure of your organisation.
Display news pages and agenda pages (for events).
Export news as RDF/RSS.
Aggregate news from external sources using RSS.
Docma (extension)
External server that talks to MS Word using COM. This server can
be integrated with the Silva server running on another machine
(which can run Linux/Unix). Users import and export Word
documents using the normal Silva user interface, which delegates
the requests to the separate DocMa server. If desired the DocMa
server can also be run standalone on the Windows desktop of end
users.
Export Silva content to a MS Word document. A whole Silva publication
consisting of many folders and documents can be exported as a single
Word document.
Import MS Word content into Silva. A single large Word document
can be automatically broken up into a structure of Silva folders
and documents.
This allows round-trip editing. Large changes in structure in Word
can be reflected into Silva.
Technical
Open source & Free Software (BSD license).
Integrates with Zope Page Templates, DTML and Python Scripts.
Using Silva External Sources, ability to integrate with data
coming from relational databases through SQL. Custom objects can
also be created that retrieve data from relational databases.
Extensible Model/View/Controller architecture for both the
editor and user interface.
Silva can be extended with new custom objects.
Can be configured to integrate with Apache web server and Squid
cache.
Cross platform; runs on Linux, Solaris, Windows, Mac OS
X and SGI.