OpenCms Features Version 6

The features listed here are the main features that were introduced with OpenCms version 6.

Have a look at the following feature descriptions

  • The Direct Edit function of OpenCms

    Edit each content element directly from the frontend preview by clicking on a "Direct Edit" button.
  • Managing structured content items (e.g. news)

    Use custom structured content items with an underlying XML Schema Definition on your website and edit them with the integrated form based editor.
  • Integrated image processing

    The integrated image scaling and resizing allows the manipulation of commonly used image formats. Additionally, some image processing filters can be applied.
  • Full text search engine

    Full text search in website documents like HTML pages, structured contents, office documents and many more is supported with a lot of configuration options.
  • Visual comparison of document versions

    All contents are fully versioned in OpenCms and can be visually compared with each other to have an overview over all changes.
  • Multi site management in OpenCms

    One OpenCms installation can be used to maintain multiple websites using their own set of resources and user/group accounts.
  • Unicode content

    Contents in international character sets can easily be handled in OpenCms because of the full Unicode (UTF-() support. This simplifies the creation of multi language websites.
  • ACL based permission system

    Access to all OpenCms contents can optionally be restricted by the integrated permission management system based on access control lists.

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Latest News

  • Summary of the first OpenCms development Sprint

    Sep 12, 2008 - The first OpenCms Sprint was held September 9-10, 2008 in the KOMED convention center in Cologne, Germany. A total of 10 developers attended the Sprint. Results and Proceedings of the Sprint are now available for download.

  • Alkacon OCEE 2.1 substantially extends OpenCms functionality

    Aug 29, 2008 - OCEE for OpenCms offers Support for LDAP, Clustering, Replication and improved performance. The latest OCEE release version 2.1 is a major update that introduces a number of new features for OpenCms 7.

  • Alkacon OAMP Comments module available

    Aug 28, 2008 - The next open source module in the Alkacon OAMP series has been released. The OAMP Comments module allows to add highly configurable blog like comment options to all template based pages in OpenCms.

  • First OpenCms Development Sprint in Cologne, Germany

    Jul 21, 2008 - Our very first OpenCms development sprint event will happen September 9 to 10, 2008 in Cologne, Germany. Sprints are a gathering of OpenCms developers who want to activly shape the future of OpenCms.