Details of the functionalities

Data's structures

In order to structure content manageable on a web site, Novadeck has developed a flexible object oriented model, administered through a simplified web interface. Each data's object (typical basic structure such as an article, an employee, a product in a catalog) is composed of fields which define the object.

Each field can be mandatory (in this case, no object can be published if fields are not filled in) or not. Each field is characterized (numeric or alphanumeric, limited or unlimited number of characters or not, date, etc.). By principle, each field is multiple, which means it can be filled in several times for each instance; the availibity of this functionality is only constrained by the instances of the management's interface. Lastly, a field can be defined as "redirect" i.e. it redirects towards another instance and its associated content, the identifier of the target instance being stocked in the redirect field.

When created, each instance of an object is automatically provided with general attributes such as author, creation date, last modification's author, last modification's date: these attributes do not need to be managed in standard fields and are automatically updated.

This enables the construction of complex data's structures that answer most of the needs that can be met in advanced content web sites' development.

Redirections between instances