SOM - Cascade Documentation
SOM - Cascade Documentation
SOM - Using Cascade CMS
About Cascade CMS
Cascade CMS (Content Management System) is a robust tool you will use to manage your website content.
Cascade functions:
- As web editing software (much like Contribute), where you work on your pages and then "publish" the results to the live web site.
- As a site managment tool by tracking links between your pages and allowing site-wide changes to your navigation.
- As a nexus for collaboration. Because everyone shares the same Cascade CMS, it allows for a more collaborative process.
The advantages are huge. In Cascade CMS you:
- Never lose your work. Cascade CMS will auto-save as you edit.
- Have nearly infinite rollbacks to older versions of your work.
- Can tell who changed content and when it was changed.
- Can access integrated collaboration tools such as task assignmnets and threaded commenting.
Who can see my stuff? or Three stages to editing and publishing content.
Before you begin editing using the Cascade CMS, you need to be aware of how it behaves when editing and publishing your pages. Basically, there are three stages to content creation and editing and with each stage your work is more visible to others:
Content stage | Where is it? | Who can see your work? | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
Edit/Create/Save | Cascade CMS server | You | ||
After Submitting | Cascade CMS server | You | Others in your group | |
After Publishing | Web server and Cascade CMS server |
You | Others in your group | the world |
NOTE: The publishing process and "Workflows"
At SOM we are using "workflows," which means that there are other steps involved before publication. Workflows will require that your content is approved first before publication. However, behind these workflows the same process of save draft, submit draft and publish will exist.