Ektron CMS400.NET User Manual

Types of Content
Introduction to Ektron CMS400.NET
Every piece of content in Ektron CMS400.NET is one of the
following types. The table below summarizes all types.
Type Description For more information, see
HTML content Content designed to be published on the
World Wide Web
XML Smart Forms Online forms, polls, or surveys designed to
collect information from site visitors and save
it in an XML format
HTML form/survey Online forms, polls, or surveys designed to
collect information from site visitors and save
it in an HTML format
DMS Documents,
which consist of Office
documents, managed
files, and multimedia
files
See details below
Office documents Files normally created and edited using
Microsoft Office
Managed files Files created outside of Ektron
CMS400.NET, such as PDFs and .jpeg files.
You cannot create or edit these files within
Ektron CMS400.NET - you can only store
them.
Multimedia Files that run in a media player, such as
sound and movie files
When creating new content, you must assign a type.
For information on using
Ektron CMS400.NET’s editor,
see ”Introduction to
eWebEditPro+XML” on
page 626.
Ektron CMS400.NET
Administrator Manual Section
“Managing Content Folders” >
“Smart Forms”
”Working with HTML Forms” on
page 156
”Working with Microsoft Office
Documents” on page 227
”Working with Managed Files”
on page 253
Ektron CMS400.NET
Administrator Manual section
“Managing Assets“> “Managing
Multimedia Assets'”
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