Web Gear
Breakthrough Technology in Dynamic Website Feature Management
Too often, website developers spend their time on redundant development, implementing the same piece of functionality that already exists on another site. Crown Web Gear can streamline the web development process, allowing easy configuration and deployment of dynamic functionality to websites. Web Gear is a software framework and application, and allows your content contributors to manage dynamic features in an EMC Documentum web content management environment. Your contributors can create, configure, deploy, un-deploy, validate, approve, promote, and expire the dynamic features of your sites.
Web Gear allows your business to benefit from dynamic website functionality at a lower cost. Web Gear not only enables the reuse of common functionality, but also enables nontechnical business users to select, configure, deploy, and test interactive functionality for their site without developer involvement. This allows your technical resources more time to devote to new development.
Quick Facts
- Consists of a suite of interactive components that allow you to build rich Web 2.0 features that enhance the visitor experience
- Offers an easy-to-use user interface featuring the latest technology, ensuring that content authors can quickly enhance websites with minimal training
- Leverages your existing Documentum platform including powerful functions such as workflow and automatic content publishing
- Is compatible with any consumption environment framework (J2EE, .NET, PHP, and so on)
- Features prebuilt implementations, available as add-on kits, for many common dynamic features
Affordable Innovation in Website Functionality
Crown Web Gear provides a suite of interactive components to enhance websites created with EMC Documentum’s Web Content Management edition, with benefits including:
- Supports the integration of static and dynamic content
- Employs a framework based on open source standards
- Is less costly than a portal
- Supports as many sites as needed
- Works with existing sites
- Offers simple architecture, with no inter-portlet navigation
- Deploys automatically
- Delivers features that are configurable by nontechnical users
- Supports rapid site creation
- Leverages existing EMC Documentum infrastructure
An Efficient Dynamic Feature Management Solution
Framework¹
- Web Gear Manager - Base application that lists and provides authors with an interface to execute basic feature management (checkout, check-in, save, edit, delete, document properties, web view, etc.)
- Web Gear Deployer - Component that deploys features to teh web on the fly without It involvement. Features can be added or removed from the website on demand which increases clients speed to market and reduces IT overhead costs.
- Form Builder - A contribution interface that provides authors with the ability to create and configure forms for their website. This component enables authors to define form fields, field validation, error messages, and services that handle data on the backend.
Basic Kit¹
- Email a Friend – A Web 2.0 component that provides website visitors with the ability to share web pages with friends.
Micro-site Kit¹
- Simple Registration – A contribution interface and consumption side application that enables a non-technical user to configure and deploy a single page registration form to a website. Content authors can add and remove form controls from their forms. They can also reuse forms across multiple sites without IT involvement.
- Data file extract – An administration tool which formats and exports registration data for data processing.
- Simple User Management – A web based application for viewing and processing registration data.
Micro-site Kit¹
- Simple Registration – A contribution interface and consumption side application that enables a non-technical user to configure and deploy a single page registration form to a website. Content authors can add and remove form controls from their forms. They can also reuse forms across multiple sites without IT involvement.
- Data file extract – An administration tool which formats and exports registration data for data processing.
- Simple User Management – A web based application for viewing and processing registration data.
Personalization Kit¹
- Advanced Registration – Content authors can configured and deploy multi-page registration forms to the consumption website. Website users can submit their profile information as well as manage that profile once they are logged in. Compared to the simple registration where settings are pre-defined, the advanced registration feature enables authors to create and configure every aspect of a form from input fields to backend services. The configuration options are limitless.
- Login – Content authors can configure and deploy login forms to the consumption website. Website users can enter their account credentials then view secured functionality including profile information and personalized content.
- Logout – Content authors can configure and deploy logout services to the consumption website. Website users can terminate their user session.
- Login Status – Content authors can configure and deploy login status indicators to the consumption website. Website users will see a login or logout control depending on if they are already logged in to the website.
- Update User Profile – Content authors can configure and deploy user profile management pages to the consumption website. Website users can manage their profile information once they are authenticated on the site.
- Xena – A feature that provides the ability to dynamically render content to a targeted audience on a website based on web content created and maintained within Documentum in an efficient and cost-effective way. Xena can be used for dynamic offers, dynamic navigation, redirects, page security, related products, and much more
- Simple Registration – A contribution interface and consumption side application that enables a non-technical user to configure and deploy a single page registration form to a website. Content authors can add and remove form controls from their forms. They can also reuse forms across multiple sites without IT involvement.
- Data file extract – An administration tool which formats and exports registration data for data processing.
- Simple User Management – A web based application for viewing and processing registration data.
Whats new in Web Gear 4.2?
Framework¹ Enhancements
Web Gear Deployer Enhancements
- The deployer has been enhanced to deploy features to the web on the fly without IT involvement. This allows features to be added or removed from the web on demand which increases clients speed to market and reduces IT overhead costs.
- The feature reloading functionality was enhanced to re-load configurations without a full context refresh. This eliminates site downtime and increases application server stability across multiple form/feature updates.
Form Builder Enhancements
- A new "Create Form" button has been added to the Form Builder to make the form creation process intuitive and easy.
- The Form Editor and Simple Registration Feature Editor dialogs have been merged together into one simplified user interface.
- A new "Deploy and Test" button was added to improve efficiency of testing iterations during feature creation.
- A new prompt was added to inform users to save a form before testing if changes were made. This will ensure that the latest changes are shown when testing the form.
- The edit form dialog has been configured to support a minimum of 1024px by 768px screen resolution.
- The ability to move drop down options up and down has been added.
- The Form Builder tab can be configured to be hidden, to simplify the Web Gear User Interface.
Workflow and Lifecycle Enhancements
- The start workflow functionality has been updated to automatically include all necessary supporting files to deploy a form when a workflow is initiated.
- The lifecycle actions, such as promote and demote, have been updated to promote all necessary supporting files to deploy a form when a lifecycle action is performed.
- The workflow and lifecycle context menus have been enhanced to only display when a form or feature object is ready for lifecycle management.
Micro-site Kit¹ Enhancements
Simple Registration Feature Enhancements
- The Simple Registration form creation process has been streamlined to minimize the user clicks and time required to create a registration form.
- The Form Editor and Simple Registration Feature Editor dialogs have been merged together into one simplified user interface.
- Validation has been added to the feature configurations editor fields to prevent invalid configurations.
- Feature configuration options are now systematically populated with default values to simplify the configuration process and to prevent manual entry errors.
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