I am going to talk a little about Webcenter Content here. Nothing new in this post... it is just summary I tried to pull from UserGuide for my reference.
Overview
When a file is checked in, Content Server stores the original or native file in a central repository for native files. For systems with conversion features installed and enabled, a web-viewable version of file is created and stored in special repository for web-viewable files. When a file cannot be converted, native file is stored in special repository of web-viewable files.
A file checked in to content server is called a
Content Item.The native file and any Web-viewable files associated with a content item are called
Renditions.
Check out, modify and then checkin will create new revisions of the content item. Every content item in the repository for Web-viewable files has a persistent URL that does not change from one revision to the next. The most current version is always displayed when you point your browser to the URL of a content item.
Metadata is information about a content item, such as the title, author, release date, and so on.When you check in a content item, you assign some metadata values, while Content Server assigns some metadata values automatically. The metadata is stored in a database that works with Content Server.
Users
Content Server defines two types of users:
Consumers: No modification ...just view .
Contributors: Create , Find, View, Revise , Print permission.
Access Control List (ACL) Security
An access control list is a list of users, groups, or enterprise roles with permission to access or interact with a particular content item.
User Access List
Group Access List
Role Access List
To use access control lists with content items, you assign one or more predefined users, groups, or roles to the item. In addition, you assign the permissions (Read (R), Write (W), Delete (D), or Admin (A)) to each of the access list entries you specify.
Indexing
If your system is configured for full-text search, the indexing engine makes a list of all the words in every file in HTML, PDF, TXT, XML, and other supported formats, and stores the list in a database. After the indexing process completes, the file is released to Content Server.
Images And Videos
Digital Asset Manager functionality can be used to quickly find, group, convert, and download images and videos of various sizes, formats, and resolutions to meet your business needs, all while maintaining a consistency of use across your organization.
Managing Content with Folders and WebDav
Content Server includes components that provide a hierarchical folder interface, similar to a conventional file system, for organizing and managing some or all of the content in the repository.
Folders: This component (FrameworkFolders component) provides a hierarchical folder interface within the browser, similar to a conventional file system, for organizing, locating, and managing repository content and content item metadata. The Folders functionality is installed but disabled by default.
Contribution Folders: This optional component (Folders_g component) provides a hierarchical folder interface within the browser, similar to a conventional file system, for organizing repository content. The component is installed but disabled by default. The newer, Folders component is meant to be a replacement for Contribution Folders.
WebDAV (Web-Based Distributed Authoring and Versioning): Both folder components work with Content Server's built-in WebDAV functionality to allow users to remotely manage and author content using clients that support the WebDAV protocol. The WebDAV interface provides a subset of the options available through the browser interface. In general, you can create, delete, move, and copy both folders and content items, and you can modify and check in content items. To check out content items through the WebDAV interface, you must use a WebDAV client that can open the file. To perform other management tasks, such as specifying or propagating metadata values, you must use the standard browser interface.
Grouping Content into Folios
A folio is a logical grouping or framework to organize content stored in Content Server.
With a simple folio, you collect one or more items in a single level. With an advanced folio, you can organize content in a hierarchy of folders.
An advanced folio can contain folders, called nodes, placeholders for content, called slots, and content items These elements are displayed by default in a hierarchical structure, similar to a standard file system.
Routing Content Through Workflows
The workflow process routes a file for review and approval before it is released to the Content Server repository. You can optionally sign and approve a file with an electronic signature which uniquely identifies the contents of the file at a particular revision and associates the signature with a particular reviewer.
Criteria workflow - files automatically go into a workflow if the values entered in the metadata fields upon check-in meet certain criteria. Criteria workflows are useful for individual content items that are approved by the same reviewers on a regular basis.
Basic workflow - files are specifically identified in the workflow, along with the contributors, reviewers, and steps. This type of workflow requires an administrator to initiate the process, and is best suited for groups of content items that go through a workflow or individual content items with unique workflow requirements.
