Customizing your login screens
16 Dec 2013

Screen URLs can be found under: Admin > Setting > Passwords tab The login screen can be customised from the CMS module. Go to : CMS Sites > Select "public" site > Go to "pages" tab and select the "login" screen. Now You can modify the login page and the CSS properties. Alternatively, the login page can be copied, and customised. The login URL will have to be updated in the setting screen.

Social features are integrated into the core of the CMS
14 Dec 2013

When articles are published the built in social integration automatically posts the article to the requested social sites. When posting to twitter the title and subtitle are automatically shorten to within the 140 character limit. All published articles are automatically published via the RSS feed. The CMS automatically generates an XML Sitemap which can be submitted to search engines for faster indexing of new content.

Reporting facilities
13 Dec 2013

There are many built in reports created in the screen painter. Jasper Reports can be designed and uploaded for more complex reports External tools such as Open Office or Excel can be used to generate reports via JDBC or ReST web services.

What are the supported browsers?
13 Dec 2013

Supported desktop browsers Chrome Firefox Safari Internet Explorer Supported tablets iPad 2+ with iOS7+ Android tables 4.3+ Supported mobiles iPhone iOS7+ Android Phones 4.3+ Ever Green browsers We support the latest version of Google Chrome and FireFox (which automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available). We support the current and previous major releases of Safari on a rolling basis. Each time a new version is released, we begin supporting that version...

Is workflow customizable?
13 Dec 2013

Workflow is a series of activities that form a real world process and defines the order in which these activities are processed and their dependencies. In a software sense, ' work flow' refers to the triggering of events and the processing of corresponding actions. This process turns a software application from being simply a data entry and retrieval system into a business application that reflects business processes, thus increasing both quality and productivity and reducing costs. Events Triggers...

System security overview
13 Dec 2013

Overview stSoftware designs systems to meet or exceed all aspects of the Australian Government Protective Security Policy Framework PSPF. At stSoftware, we take security very seriously. Our ephemeral workload servers are locked down to be accessed only via bastion hosts; the support team can only access the bastion hosts themselves via secure shell from specific IP addresses. stSoftware follows Infrastructure as Code principles for all AWS services. Network design Best practice network design for...

Does the CMS include a script manager?
5 Dec 2013

Every page can define a script and/or include a number of script modules. Each script module can have many versions of the JavaScript. Each script version can specify what is the maximum and/or minimum browser version compatible with this script. The page can specify the a maximum version number for inclusion or just the script module. The script manager will include the highest compatible script version.

New control panel pages
5 Dec 2013

Create new looking pages for QuickStart, Contacts, Business Units, Quotes, Jobs, Financials, Inventory, Purchases, Timesheets and Subscription QuickStart page: Quotes page: How to change the standard screen ? 1. Open CMS Site menu, open the data entry screen for site "intranet" 2. Click the "Clone" button for the page you'd like to modify, enter a path, eg: cp/myQuickStart and click "OK" button 3. go to Customize/Menus, open the Control Panel menu 4. Open the QuickStart menu, change the url to /...

User Access Control Limits
5 Dec 2013

Every class in the system has ACLs (Access Control Limits ) which prevent CRUD ( Create, Read, Update and Delete) of records that are unauthorized. These ACLs are applied to all requests regardless of where or how the requests is made. The same ACLs apply to web forms, SOAP requests, ReST or any other protocol.

How to manage the site structure?
5 Dec 2013

Each site has a series of pages and menus. A page can be taken offline or scheduled to be taken on/off line at a certain time. The menu and site maps will automatically adjust accordingly.

RSS feed aggregation
27 Nov 2013

The system comes with a number of standard components but any valid script/HTML can be added as a component using the ActiveHTML component.

Rotating Banner ads
27 Nov 2013

yes, the site owner can/should be able to change anything. And technically they can as it's all just JavaScript/HTML/CSS. An example is SRL when they publish an article the banner image is placed on the carousel and linked to the article. The page reads this information from the RSS feed.

Content Management System (CMS)
27 Nov 2013

The stSoftware CMS is a complete online solution with everything you’d expect from an advanced CMS, plus a whole lot more to give you greater control over your website and business data, and unify your communications. Designed to make it easy to manage the flow of content across multiple websites, our CMS is the ideal solution for group-based organisations such as franchise networks, enterprises and government agencies. Powerful, dynamic online platform One of the most distinctive features of our...

Does the system have comprehensive error handling and logging?
27 Nov 2013

All web access is recorded in the standard Apache web access logs. The server logs can be configured via log4j All database changes are logged by user and time.

Aged breakdown of job charges according to billing cycle
27 Nov 2013

Categories in the job summary screen (Not Completed, Ready to Invoice, Balance Payable, Paid) Not Completed Sum all the labour charges/tasks which are still opened. This will give us indication about how long the tasks are still opened. Current - we started to work on the task in the last 7 days 7 days - we started to work on the task more then 7 days ago but less then 14 days ago. 14 days - we started to work on the task more then 14 days ago but less then 30 days ago. 30 days - we started to work...

What coding standards are used by stSoftware?
27 Nov 2013

Our Java coding standards can be found here which are adopted by all our developers. We follow Agile development processes, which includes writing automated unit tests for business logic. This allows systems to evolve with confidence. References:- Original stSoftware coding standards document.

What are the security, back-up, disaster recovery and firewall services?
26 Nov 2013

Security Industry standard best practice for passwords for both the web server and Linux machines. Site designers do not have direct access to the underlying Linux server, the raw database or files. All changes are done within sandbox of the system. Back ups All databases are backed up nightly. All client documents are backed up nightly and consistency check of the raw file checksum is performed. The backups are kept for a week on site. The machines themselves are backed up as a whole to an off ...

Easily integrated with other web applications through open standards.
26 Nov 2013

Users may access all allowed data via the Web Forms or via Industry standard protocols such as: ReST which returns data in both JSON and XML formats. SOAP WebDav ICal GWT RPC JDBC All requests for data or modification to data goes via the DAL ( Data Access Layer) no matter which protocol is used. There is NO direct access to the underlying data store. The DAL checks the ACLs ( Access Control Limits ) for each data request and performs all validations on each data modification. When data is modified...

How to access ST data from Microsoft Excel via ReST web service
26 Nov 2013

Excel connection details 1. Click the Data menu, select Import External Data/New Web Query 2. Enter the XML REST address in the Address field, and click "Go" button, the login dialogue pops up, use your ST system user name and password to login 3. You should see the XML below it once you login. 4.Click the little yellow array on the top left of the XML to select the XML to import, then click "Import" button 5. select the position to import the data and click "OK" button to import. 6. Data imported...

Validation for Emails, phone numbers, first and last names.
1 Nov 2013

The following field validations have been added. Validations Field Validation Reason Email The host name for the email will be looked up to match sure it's valid and active. The email must match the following pattern:- ^[A-Z0-9._%+\-#'&]+@[A-Z0-9.-]+\.(?:[A-Z]{2}|com|org|net|edu|gov|mil|biz|info|mobi|name|aero|asia|jobs|museum)$ Examples of valid and invalid email addresses:- bill@microsoft.com bill@junkdomain.com abc@. When sending emails a large number of bouncing emails will cause our servers...

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