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"We can develop for you a complete, highly
professional,
and affordable web portal with an admin control panel for you
to have
complete control of your portal without knowing any
programming!"
We offer a powerful Content Management System (CMS)/ Groupware to
create all sorts of Web applications, Sites, Portals, Intranets and Extranets.
It is specially used as a web based collaboration tool; it is a multi-purpose
package with a lot of native options and sections that you can enable/disable as
you need them. Designed to be international, clean and extensible.
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Product Features
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Image Galleries Image galleries are collections of images, users can
create galleries and upload images to their galleries or public galleries. You
can select the number of thumbnails to appear in rows/files of galleries as well
as the thumbnails size. Thumbnails are automatically created by Our Portal
Solution, you don t have to upload them. Galleries can be used for albums,
stories, showrooms and many other applications.
Articles and submissions The articles & submissions system allows
editors to publis articles, articles can belong to a topic and topics can be
administered, the articles can use an image or the topic image, you can set up
the publishing date of any article allowing you to program articles for the
future. The article content can use the Wiki syntax or regular HTML. Links and
images in articles are automatically cached to prevent content that resides in
other pages from disappearing from your articles. The CMS system has also
submissions, users can send proposed articles as submissions and the editors can
edit the submissions, remove them or approve them becoming articles. There s a
home page where the last n articles are shown. With this CMS system you can
easily set-up a site like you did using systems such as PHPNuke or PostNuke.
Blogs Blogs are great and they are ver popular today of course we have
blogs J. A weblog is a collection of posts ordered by date, it s like a Journal
on the web. A post can be a comment about something the user did, a review, a
thought, anything. The Our Portal Solution Blogs system is quite powerful, users
can create blogs and of course post entries into their blogs or public blogs. If
you want you can choose a Blog and make it appear as the home page of the site.
Our Portal Solution also implements the Blogger XMLRPC interface allowing you to
use applications such as wBloggar or Blogbuddy to manage and edit weblogs.
Banner ads Some time ago banners were used to generate revenues for
succesful websites, today this practice is not that frequent but banners are
still popular. Why? Because they are a great way to generate traffic for a web
site, community sites, weblogs, e-zines and many sites can use banners and
interchange banners with other sites to generate more visitors, more page views
and more traffic to their sites.
This version of Our Portal Solution
incorporates the first stage of the banners system, it support image banners,
HTML banners (used in banner exchange sites) and Text ads. Banners are assigned
to zones in your application. There re a lot of configurable options for banners
such as maximum number of impressions, weekdays when the banner can be
displayed, hours, etc. Banner clients are normal Our Portal Solution users and
they can view banners assigned to them accessing a page where banner stats are
displayed. Including banners in Our Portal Solution is easy using a very simple
syntax in any template or user module.
Dynamic Content System The Dynamic Content System (DCS) is a very
simple concept, you can edit blocks of HTML code or text from a admin screen and
you can display a block in any Our Portal Solution template or user module.
Updating the block content will update the template. You can also program block
content by date storing several blocks to be displayed in future dates. This
simple system adds a lot of flexibility to Our Portal Solution, you can display
anything you like anywhere in the screen and you can set-up portions that can be
changed or that change atomatically along time.
The DCS can be used for
example:
- To display a quote in the top bar or a user module
- To display news in a user module
- To announce products, chats, news according to time
- To announce any event
- To display sport results or sports information
- Anything!
File Galleries The file galleries section of Our Portal Solution is a
download manager, you can create/edit file galleries which are collections of
files, you can define with the permission system who can create file galleries,
upload files and download files. Statistics are recorded for each download,
rankings where defined for the top downloaded files, most visited file galleries
and last uploaded files. Modules are also available to display last changed file
galleries, last uploaded files, top downloaded files and top visited file
galleries.
You can use file galleries to distribute free multimedia
(mp3, avis, etc), to distribute software (versions, patches, releases), to add
files that users can download from Wiki pages, articles or weblog posts, etc.
Featured Links The featured links section is just a link manager, you
can enter as many links as you want and there s an user module to display the
links in the order that you want. Clicking the links will open the site in a
frame inside the central section of Our Portal Solution. Statistics are kept
about the number of times that featured links were visited and you can
automatically order featured links by the number of hits they had.
Comments Version 1.1 of Our Portal Solution adds a comments engine to
Our Portal Solution, in v 1.1 comments are used to provide user-feedback to many
Our Portal Solution features: users can comment: Wiki pages, image galleries,
file galleries, articles and polls. The comment system can be configured to
allow users to vote comments, a karma system mantains a level for each user the
level improves when a user comment is voted by another user. Good qualified
users votes add more points to a comment than users who didn t get good
qualifications. Comments can be displayed/hidden using simple controls and the
user can control how to sort votes, the number of votes to see by page and the
minimum threshold (score) for a vote to be displayed.
Forums Forums are a must-have feature for a community site, a forum is
a collection of topics and each topic is a collection of user messages about
that topic. Using Our Portal Solution you can configure as many forums as you
want and stablish permissions to determine who can create forums, admin forums,
create topics, post messages, vote messages, etc. Individual permissions can be
set for forums so you can have private forums only visible to some user groups.
The forums section in Our Portal Solution has many advanced features such as
auto -prunning to prevent the base of messages growing to big, flood-preventing,
sticky topics, locked topics etc. The forums section in this manual describes
all the user-level features for forums while the admin section of forums in this
manual will describe how to admin the forums system.
ChatRooms Chatrooms are an experimental feature in Our Portal Solution,
admins can create chat channels and the users can join the channels, once in a
channel users post messages that are broadcasted to all the users in the same
chatroom. Chatroom messahes are updated at a given interval that can be
configured for each chat channel (you may want a channel to refresh faster than
others). Future Our Portal Solution version might add new features such as
private channels, moderated chats, etc.
Communications center The communications center is a feature not found
in many CMS systems, basically it lets you send/receive objects to and from
other Our Portal Solution-powered sites. You can control who can send you
objects and who can admin the received objects. A special inbox is used to
examine received objects and you can edit the objects, remove them or accept
them from this inbox. Accepted objects will appear as normal Our Portal Solution
objects. For example if you see a nice Wiki page about a specific topic or a set
of pages useful to your site you can ask for them and use this feature to
receive the pages from another site. The communications center is based on an
XMLRPC api to send/receive objects so you can build desktop applications or
adapt existing systems to interact with your Our Portal Solution site.
Polls Polls are another typical feature in user-community sites, using
Our Portal Solution you can create as many polls as you want and display from
zero to n polls in the Our Portal Solution pages, you can also have a set of
active polls and display only one poll in the page, in such a case Our Portal
Solution will rotate through the set of active polls. Users with the right
permission can vote polls, see poll results, examine old polls and vote any poll
that is not closed.
Category system Categories are a way to classify Our Portal Solution
objects (Blogs, Image galleries, Articles, Polls, Forums, Wiki Pages, File
Galleries). You can create a ctaegory tree creating categories and adding as
many sub-categories as you want to any category. Any Our Portal Solution object
can then be added to one or many categories if you want. The user will be able
to use a category browser navigating the category tree with links to the objects
in the category. This can be used to let the users find all the information your
Our Portal Solution site has about a specific topic/subject regardless if the
information is in an article, a weblog or a file gallery. In future versions
categories can be used for other powerful features such as stablishing
permissions per category etc.
FAQs FAQs (Frequently asked questions) are lists of common questions
and answers about a specific topic. FAQs are a very common tool in communities
to group popular questions and have them solved in a common place without the
need to repeat the same answer multiple times. Our Portal Solution allows you to
create as many FAQs as you want with any number of questions in each FAQ, users
will be able to browse FAQs and read the questions and their answers.
Quizzes Quizzes can be used for fun, for trivia, for contests or for
courses and elearning sites. A quiz is made of a number of multiple-choice
questions, each option in a question can be assigned positive or negative
points. After the user takes a Quiz Our Portal Solution computes the score and
an aswer can be displayed to the user depending on his score. You can control if
quizzes can be repeated and you can indicate a time limit for Quizzes. If you
want Quiz results can be stored and you can review the result of any stored quiz
and the user answers. Stats are always stored for Quizzes keeping track of the
results of each quiz.
HTML pages Our Portal Solution offers a simple way for creating pages
that will be displayed to the users and that can be linked from/to any place in
your site, just create an HTML page using the editor and then you can access it
using Our Portal Solutionpage. php?pageName=some. The simple html pages system
can be extended with the addition of dynamic pages.
HTML pages dynamic A dynamic page is an HTML page where you can use the
syntax {ed id=foo} to create dynamic sections inside the page, an editor will be
automatically available to edit each dynamic zone of a dynamic page. Dynamic
pages will be automatically updated without a browser refresh and without making
the user refresh the page. So dynamic pages are great for sport scores, stock
information, real time coverage of events or other users that you may imagine.
Surveys Surveys can be used to poll the opinion of users in your site.
You can create surveys using different question formats. You can use short-text
questions, multiple-choice questions, single-choice questions and two different
rate questions. Users can fill the surveys and then you/users can check the
stats.
Trackers Trackers are a powerful and flexible tool. Trackers are used
to keep a record of a collection of items and you can set up what fields items
will have per tracker. Then you can add/remove items, list items, comment items,
attach files to items etc. Items can be assigned to user/groups and if the item
is open it will appear in the user-preferences screen. Trackers/items can be
monitored by email. You can use trackers for support tickets, feature requests,
buying orders, bug reporting, feedback reporting, submission of news, etc etc.
Many workflows can be modeled using one or more trackers.
Newsletters The newsletters feature allow admin to define as many
newsletters as he want, users can subscribe to newsletters and a email
confirmation is required to prevent spamming. Then admin can send HTML based
newsletters to the subscribed and confirmed users to a newsletter. This can be
used to communicate your site news, broadcast site events etc.
Directory This feature is similar to the Dmoz directory or other links
directories. Admins can create a tree of unlimited categories. Categories can be
related. Links are assigned to one or many categories. The user can browse links
navigating the categories or searching. Users can suggest links that may need to
be validated by an admin before being posted. Some rankings displaying the last
sites or the most popular sites are supported. Modules to display some rankings
or stats for the directory are also provided.
Ephemerides The ephemerides section can be used to asociate one or many
images and/or texts for each day of the year, users can then browse the
asociated information for a particular day and a module can be used to display
the information for the current day. This can be used to display comic strips,
quotes, national holidays, and many other ideas.
My Section Logged users can enjoy a lot of features entering the My
Section, all this features can be enabled/disabled by admin. The My
Section contains the following features:
- Webmail
- Inter-user messages
- User notepad
- User tasks
- User files
- User calendar
- User menus
- User preferences
- User bookmarks
- User modules
- Newsreader
Webmail The webmail feature allows your users to have a nice webmail
version for their email accounts. Users can set an account by indicating the
POP3 and SMTP server to use. Then they will be able to read mails, send mails,
manage attachments, manage contacts and the regular webmail features. Our Portal
Solution can read and write HTML based emails as normal webmail programs do.
Inter-User Messages Users can send messages to other Our Portal
Solution users and read/reply/remove messages in their mailboxes. Messages can
have a priority and the user may choose to be notified by email when important
messages are recived by Our Portal Solution. The user can close his mailbox from
this user preferences screen and he will not receive messages. Messages can be
flagged for follow up. Admins can send broadcast messages to all the users in a
Our Portal Solution site. A module to display the number of unread messages is
also included. User with permission can send messages to all the members of a
group.
User notepad Using the notepad users can write notes, upload notes,
download notes and read notes. Notes can be read as raw text files or as wiki
pages intepreting the wiki markup syntax. The user-quota that admin can control
is used to control the maxmim size that user notes can take.
User tasks User tasks let the user set-up to-do tasks and then view the
current tasks, mark them as done or delete them. A task can be programmed to be
activated in future date. A module that let s the user manipulate tasks is
provided.
User files This feature can be used to let users store personal files
in a Our Portal Solution site they can upload files and then download them when
they want. A quota can be setup to control the maximum size of personal files
per-user.
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User calendar The calendar can be used at user level to enter events
for any date. Events can be viewed in a daily view, weekly view or as a list.
Reminders can be used to remember the user about an event some time before it
starts. The Our Portal Solution calendar can be imported and exported from
Outlook.
User menus Using user menus the user can add personal items to the User
Menu section in the application menu. An option is provided to let the user
automatically add all the top level bookmarks to his personal menu.
User preferences User preferences let the user sleect all the
user-level preferences for the site like his personal Avatar, time zone, theme,
language etc.
User bookmarks User bookmarks let users bookmark internal or external
pages, create folders and organize his personal bookmarks in folders. Bookmarks
can be cached if that option is enabled. A module is provided to let the users
see his bookmarks navigate them and add new bookmarks.
User modules The user modules section when enabled let the users
configure the position and appearance of modules in the left and right columns
of a Our Portal Solution site.
Newsreader The newsreader can be used to let the user browse news from
any NTTP site, they can read news and mark already news to know when new posts
appear.
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