InsiteCreation 2008 was created to address the limitations in the way traditional Content Management Systems work.
The key challenges that any CMS faces – organizing content and controlling access – are generally tackled in one of two ways:
- Group-based access control with no content categories. This approach is not flexible enough to meet the needs of even a moderately complex website.
- Category-based content control mapped directly to individual users. This approach can handle more complexity in content, but access control becomes complicated, introducing potential security vulnerabilities, and making content creation more difficult to delegate.
InsiteCreation 2008 takes a flexible approach to organizing websites and controlling content access and creation. InsiteCreation 2008’s strength is based on the concept of channels – structural divisions that apply to site structure and user access control. Channels can be set up to directly reflect the way any organization – large or small – is structured.
By mapping content categories directly to user groups, channels offer a solution that is more flexible, easier to maintain & more secure than previous approaches.
Channels give you exceptionally fine-grained access control. Because users are assigned to channels, it’s easy to give site visitors access to protected areas they need to see, while keeping them locked out where they don’t belong.
For example, you might want to allow all your accounting staff access to certain financial records, without allowing them to see the security project being developed in IT, and vice versa.
With traditional user/group access models and unrelated content category systems, this would be a complicated (and potentially vulnerable) process; but with channels it’s easy. Because user groups and content are arranged the same way, and that can be mapped directly to the organization’s structure, access control is intuitive – almost automatic.