Features & Benefits

CourseLeaf has the following default capabilities on the technical side (as opposed to end-user side).

Permissions Capabilities

• Authentication
  -Active Directory
  -LDAP
  -IIS Authentication (Windows)
  -PAM Authentication (Linux)
  -Simple user manager
  -Delegated (portal) authentication
  -Poll (Beacon) authentication
• Read/Write Permissions
  -Per page
  -Per content component
  -Assigned to any combination of users and groups
• Group Management
  -Integrated role manager
  -Active Directory Groups
  -LDAP Groups
  -Delegated group credentials

Authoring Capabilities

• Simultaneous Users
  -Unlimited; based on hardware
• Concurrency Control
  -Optimistic (many users can modify; overwriting changes are stopped)
  -Pessimistic (only one user modifies after check out)
• Number of Pages
  -At least 10,000; limited by hardware speed for republish
• Shared Content
  -Site navigation
  -Select boilerplate content
  -Custom permissions on shared content
• Content Creation
  -Copy & Paste/Drag & Drop from Word, others
  -Automatic clean-up of Word-generated content
  -Automatic enforcement of site policies
  -Automatically apply site look and feel
• Table Formatting
  -Unlimited layout definitions
  -Author-selected formatting
  -Global update of table formatting
  -Table formatting varies by output
• Data Integration
  -Automatically update from remote source
  -Automatically verify against remote source
  -Automatically update remote source on publish-External data through import/export (delimited or XML)
  -External data through web services
  -External data through direct database access (SQLServer/MySQL)
• Pre-Configured Data Sources
  -Course inventory
  -School/major categories
  -Faculty
• Photo Management
  -Centrally managed image library
  -Optional author-uploaded photos
  -Automatic photo formatting
  -Photo editing (crop, rotate, redeye removal)
  -Composite custom fonts into photos

Publication Capabilities

• Number of Publications
  -Limited by hardware speed for republish
• Template Languages
  -Server side JavaScript
  -Simple substitution language
  -XSLT (optional)
• Generated Text Files
  -HTML/CSS
  -Scripting (ASP, .NET, ColdFusion, JSP, PHP)
  -XML, JSON
  -Amazon Kindle (download)
• Generated Binary Files
  -Print-ready PDF
  -JPEG, PNG, GIF
• Publish to Web Services
  -SharePoint/MOSS
  -WSDL/SOAP/HTTP POST
  -Amazon Kindle (wireless push)
  -Twitter
  -SMS
• Automatic Linking
  -Within document (tables of contents)
  -External course portals
  -External degree audit
  -Per-visitor academic progress

Workflow Capabilities

• Number of Steps
  -Unlimited
• Workflow Selection
  -Explicit by page group
  -Explicit by specific page
  -Driven by page data
  -Driven by content changes
• Workflow Actions
  -Notify
  -Approve
  -Edit and Approve
  -Invoke web service
  -Explicit routing
• Workflow Status
  -Display by role
  -Display by primary user
  -Display by date/time
• Workflow Event Triggers
  -Before/After Save Changes
  -Before/After Begin Workflow
  -Before/After Approve
  -Before/After Reject
  -Before/After Publish
• Delegation
  -Central management of delegates
  -Self delegates
  -Delegate while in process
• Change Tracking
  -All changes archived
  -Visual display of all changes together
  -Visual display of specific changes by user
  -Maintain multiple catalog versions