Rubedo CMS : features list

1. FEATURES LIST
Version 1
Septembre 2013
WebTales
Incubateur de l’Ecole Centrale Paris - Grande Voie des Vignes
F-92 295 CHÂTENAY-MALABRY Cedex
Phone : +331.41.13.16.94

2. Open-source ECM – www.rubedo-project.org
1. FEATURES LIST
Rubedo is a professional enterprise content management system.
It offers a wide range of features allowing for multiple internet, intranet or extranet websites
to be mutualized on the same technical base.
Open-source tool, Rubedo is a global and flexible solution. Based on cutting edge
technical innovations, the modular structure of Rubedo allows feature extension while
maintaining flexibility and website performance.
The Rubedo project is supported by French editor WebTales, whose objective is to offer its
clients and users quality services that balance powerful features and ease of use at the best
price
Multi-website management Contents
• Centralized management of multiple
websites in the same back-office
• Administration/contribution rights can be
granted for each website individually or
transversally for several websites
• Site builder wizard capable of creating
websites from scratch or using an
existing website as model
• Multi-website content distribution
• Multi-website distribution of digital
assets and documents
• Access protocol (http / https)
management
Website structure and pages
• Page creation and editing
• Structure management through drag
and drop of sections and sub-sections
in the pages tree
• Page SEO metadata management
• Multi-device preview
• Page mask attribution
• Visibility restrictions through
workspaces
Back-Office customization
• Personal desktop
• Intuitive and productive ergonomics
• Customizable graphic themes
• Customizable interface language
(English/French since version 1.2,
extendable through online translation
tools)
• Desktop favorite icons managed
through drag and drop
• Multi-window environment
• Choice of interface mode(Desktop or
Application since version 1.4)
• Personal profile
• Creation and editing of customized
content types on the fly
• In-context contribution/editing in the front-
office
• Multi-dimensional hierarchized
classification using taxonomy
• Content geolocation
• Content and taxonomy import tool
• Activation of user comments (DisQus) on
content types
• Content query builder wizard in back
office
• Content list block
• Content detail block
• Carousel block
• Calendar block
• Google Maps block
• Simple text block
• Rich text block
Digital assets and Documents
• Creation and editing of customized media
types on the fly
• Image, sound, video, and document
management
• Integrated taxonomy
• Advanced image editor (Photoshop-like)
• Customizable metadata
• Thumbnail generation
• Mass upload
• Media query builder wizard in back office
• Directory-based display and classification
system
• Facet-based display
• Image block
• Image map block
• Audio block
• Video block
• Image gallery block

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WYSIWYG Editor
• 3 modes : basic, standard and complete
• Multilanguage editor
• Spell checker
• Digital asset and document insertion
• W3C WCAG Accessibility
• Style management
• Wide os/browser compatibility
• Copy/Paste from Word
• Search/Replace
• Data table management
• Internal and external link management
Multilanguage
• Multilanguage interfaces
• Multilanguage contents
• Multilanguage Sites / Pages
• Multilanguage search
Design themes
• Each website can use a different theme
• Predefined themes pack
• Theme editor (since version 1.4)
Layout
• Page layout (mask) editor
• Page mask library for each site
• Mask duplication
• Creation of reusable layout elements
• Content display layout editor (since
version 1.4)
Search engine
• Multi-website centralized search
• Real-time indexing of contents, digital
assets and documents
• Full-text document search
• Auto-complete
• Navigation through auto-generated
facets
• Displayed facets settings
• Settings for logical facet behavior
(AND/OR)
• Settings for field by field indexing
• Back-Office search engine
• Result filtering by rights
• Large data volume support
• Extensibility of search to other data
sources
• Numerous result sorting criteria
• Search saving
• Unlimited creation of specific search
engines (constrained by content types,
taxonomy, workspaces, sections …etc.)
• Simple search block
• Advanced search block
Mapping
• Clustered display of contents on a map
• Flickr gallery block
• Media list block
• Resource download block
• Protected resource download block
• External media block (youtube, viméo,
slideshare, … + over 25 external sources)
Natural SEO
• W3C compliant code
• Title, meta, description tags
• Structuration of code and tags H1, H2,
H3,
• Automatic friendly url generation,
• No content duplication (canonical url),
• Site map bloc
• Breadcrumbs block
Accessibility
• High contrast back-office mode activation
• WYSIWYG editor is accessible to screen
readers
• Alternatives and description management
for digital assets, tables and links
• Keyboard navigation and RIA support
activation
Statistics
• Google Analytics integration for each
website
• A/B Testing (roadmap)
Mobility
• Adaptive rendering (responsive design)
automatically adapts to display devices
(PC, tablet, smartphone)
• Visibility settings per device type in
Back-Office
• Multi-device preview
Rights management
• User group management
• Assigning rights to groups
• Private workspaces management
• Read/write restrictions by
site/page/content type/media type
/content/digital asset/taxonomy
Performance
• Large data volume management
• Heterogeneous data management
• High traffic management
• Built-in file management
• High availability architecture
• Simplified upsacling
• Real-time search and indexing
Syndication and Social Networks
• Mailing and sharing of pages and contents
on social networks and through features
like AddThis Follow, AddThis Share, and

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• Facet based navigation coupled with the
search engine
• Zoom level and behavior settings
• Places search
• User geolocation
Surveys
• Survey display
• Unique answer management
• Publication dates management
• Stage management
• Closed questions, open questions and
rich text
• Conditional questions
• Real-time answer persistence
• Export of answers in CSV
Other Front-Office blocks
• Contact block
• Advanced contact block
• Twig block (developers)
• Zend controller block (developers)
• Newsletter subscription block
• Menu block
• Languages block
Security
• Centralization of security checks on the
data access layer (contents and files)
• Storage of files in the database
• No risk of SQL injection (NoSQL
database)
• Generalized protection against Cross-
Site Scripting (XSS vulnerability)
DisQus : twitter, gmail, facebook, tumblr,
linkedin, viadéo, … etc.
• Twitter block : tweets from an account and
favorites
• RSS block (roadmap)
Publishing
• Deferred publishing (on a date range)
• Offline and online mode
• Draft saving
• Versioning and version restoration
Workflow
• Simple editorial workflow with one
validation level (inhibitable), for each
content type
• Email notifications for validation requests
• Advanced workflow editor (roadmap)