http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/ Sun, 05 Feb 2012 20:24:20 GMT Groupy 0.96 http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/the_basics What is Groupy? Groupy is a content management system that allows groups within an organization to share content on the web. Groupy provides a unique tool for organizing diverse content types (Text, Files, Images, Media, Events, etc...) in an easy to use rich editing environment... Wed, 29 Sep 2010 01:10:22 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/creating_and_editing_content The Content Life Cycle All content in Groupy goes through several phases. First content is created / edited, then it is previewed, and if the content is satisfactory it is published and becomes visible to everyone. If the content is not satisfactory, you may edit again, or discard the draft to return the content to it's original condition... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/embedding_content_and_modules_2 Embedding Content Within the body text, content can embed links to or images from other content. The general form is like this: [content_name:View#option_name=Option Value]. You can view the content_name / URL name by going to the edit page for a piece of content... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/deleting_and_purging When a content item is deleted, it is simply inactivated. It will no longer show up in any searches or in any modules. It can later be undeleted. The Trash page (which appears on right side of the action bar if the user has deleted content) displays deleted content that can be undeleted if desired... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/content_types HTML Content HTML Content can contain small news articles or even entire book. Inserting a page break splits up the content into multiple pages. The first page is the cut of point for a summary view of the content. Files and Images Groupy allows you to attach files to content, and stores those files on the server... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/using_groups Groups technically are a type of content, but there are several aspects of groups that make them unique enough to warrant their own section. Groups contain other content, similar to how a directory or folder holds files. Every time you are adding content you are adding it to a group... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/comments Groupy allows users to give comments about each and every piece of content. When a comment is stored the current language is saved with it, so comments written in one language do not show up when viewing the content in other languages. Who can comment on which pieces of content are controlled by roles, for more information see Comment Actions... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/users_and_security Users Everything about users and security is handled from the “Manage Users” page which is accessible by a link in the upper right portion of the action bar. From here you can do several important tasks, you can reset users password should someone lose their password, you can activate inactive users and inactivate active users... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/system_configuration Several system settings are available by clicking on 'Configure System' in the upper right portion of the action bar. This page contains two forms, the first allows you to has a number of “higher level” settings while the second allows you to change database information... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT http://www.newxioninteractive.com/groupycms/documentation/online_manual/other_topics Posting Using Desktop Clients It is possible to post content to Groupy using desktop clients like Scribefire, BloGTK, Adobe Contribute, w.bloggar, or any other program that supports the metaWeblog API. Currently, I recommend Scribefire which allows excellent drag and drop between what you are reading in Firefox and what you are writing... Mon, 02 Aug 2010 00:11:50 GMT