Learning Center
This guide is targeted to two audiences, Site Administrators who use Contensive as part of their applications, and developers/designers who create and manage applications.
Administrators
An administrator uses the system to manage users and content. For many applications they would access the data through an Administration Site.
- Beginners
- Look at the Quick Start Guide if you are new to Contensive and need to get a feel for the system.
- Content Managers
- Look in Managing Content if you are a site owner looking for information about managing your site. Managing Users describes how to use the site to add and track your users. Managing Email describes how to contact your users.
- Quick Start Guide
- Information for site users and content managers covering basic topics like logging in, editing pages, and adding users.
- FAQ
- Frequently Asked Questions, offering solutions to topics of highest interest.
- Managing Content
- The basics of how to add pages and sections to the site. These topics are focused around the Manage Content section of the Admin Site Navigator.
- Managing Users
- The basics of managing users on the site, as well as organizations and groups, where you manage most permissions and roles. These topics are focused around the Manage Users section of the Admin Site Navigator.
- Managing Email
- This section covers how to setup and send email.
- Microsites
- A microsite is an additional website created in the same Contensive application as your primary site. From the outside, it looks like an entirely different site, but from the admin site you see it is simply a different page, site layout, template, domain, etc.
Developers
A developer uses the Contensive Library to help build applications and websites. From a developer's perspective, the Contensive Library is an easy to follow dotnet api to help with state management, hardware abstraction, etc. At its heart is the executeAddon() method. When used within a web application, the executeRoute() method can used to execute addons based on routes. For example, the Library includes an Administration Site addon that can be executed on the '/admin' route.
Within the Admin Site, site administrators can edit content and execute other addons configured as tools, reports, etc. Content, Tools, etc are created by developers and deployed in groups of functionality called addon collections.
- Dotnet API
- The Library is exposed through the core object 'cp'. In dotnet you make a reference to the library through NuGet Package and call its methods, like cp.file.save(). The complete object api available online at http://support.contensive.com/api
- Create Addons
- You can use addons to extend your application, see http://support.contensive.com/Creating-Add-ons
An Add-on is a group of html, css, JavaScript, programming code, etc that when worked together, provide content or functionality for the site.
- Developer Tutorials
- Tutorials to provide a easy path for developers at Contensive and our clients to begin using our server framework.
- Contensive Library Architecture
- An overview of the system that include more a in-depth discussion of the available features.
- Creating Forms with Multiple Select FieldsThe Library API is available online at http://support.contensive.com/api
For more information about creating Addons, see http://support.contensive.com/Creating-Add-ons
An Add-on is a group of html, css, JavaScript, programming code, etc that when worked together, provide content or functionality for the site.
- Developer How-To
- The developer How-To is a list of common technical task instructions
- Roles
- Some features in Contensive can only be accessed by users with special rights. A Role is a collection of rights, like Administrator.
- Managing Add-ons
- This section covers how to add, use and manage addons. Addons are features added to the basic site like a Blog, Forum, Meeting Registration, etc. All custom functionality written for your site is added as addons. These topics are focused around the Manage Addon section of the Admin Site Navigator.
- Managing Design
- This section covers topics related to creating and editing Templates, CSS Styles, Menuing and Layouts used in addons. These topics are focused around the Manage Design section of the Admin Site Navigator.
- Terms
- Common words and phrases used in online help.
