LiveSite capabilities - basic questions

jaalex

Hi,

I want to know if the following are doable out of the box with LiveSite - i.e with zero or very minimal application development.

1. Publishing a webpage that has mostly static content + some dynamic data (ex: rates or stock quotes) . There could be more than 1 dynamic "widget" on the page - say a sign-in form.

2. For the dynamic portion, can LiveSite support a placeholder that can be provided by a JSP that does not reside in CMS ?

3. Creating a multi-tabbed page with footnotes, superscripts etc and contextual help links that open layers when clicked. .For example, the content could be like :

Online Only offer¹ for Checking accounts -- note the superscript (1) which will link to a footnote at the bottom of the page. and on clicking "Checking" link, a javascript layer opens up showing the definition of Checking.

4. Supporting multiple locales - say the locale is Spanish (supplied via URL parameter like www.mysite.com?lang=sp) the Spanish version of content should be shown.

It's ok if we need to do some one-time development in Interwoven to support this, but the primary idea is to keep these pages CMS controlled rather than application controlled simply because they need some dynamism.

Our site uses Interwoven, but stops with generating the DCR XMLs, which is processed by an application component to render the page. I want to explore if Interwoven itself can provide these features and what are the tradeoff's involved here.

Thanks
jaa

vpatel

Hi, I want to know if the following are doable out of the box with LiveSite - i.e with zero or very minimal application development. 1. Publishing a webpage that has mostly static content + some dynamic data (ex: rates or stock quotes) . There could be more than 1 dynamic "widget" on the page - say a sign-in form. 2. For the dynamic portion, can LiveSite support a placeholder that can be provided by a JSP that does not reside in CMS ? 3. Creating a multi-tabbed page with footnotes, superscripts etc and contextual help links that open layers when clicked. .For example, the content could be like : Online Only offer1 for Checking accounts -- note the superscript (1) which will link to a footnote at the bottom of the page. and on clicking "Checking" link, a javascript layer opens up showing the definition of Checking. 4. Supporting multiple locales - say the locale is Spanish (supplied via URL parameter like www.mysite.com?lang=sp) the Spanish version of content should be shown. It's ok if we need to do some one-time development in Interwoven to support this, but the primary idea is to keep these pages CMS controlled rather than application controlled simply because they need some dynamism. Our site uses Interwoven, but stops with generating the DCR XMLs, which is processed by an application component to render the page. I want to explore if Interwoven itself can provide these features and what are the tradeoff's involved here. Thanks jaa

Short answer is YES to all of your questions. If you expect any software to have all of these features available OOTB then you are being unrealistic. For example, you asked for rates / stocks quote component -- TS ships with close to 100 OOTB components. Will the OOTB stock quote component suffice need for every customer out there? It is a good start but you may have to customize the look and feel of it. TS also has a login component -- another thing that you asked for. However OOTB login happens against SP/LS' User Profile Mgmt feature. Many clients like to authenticate against their LDAP or SSO rather than OOTB User Profile Mgmt DB. Creating multi-tabbed page -- well that is a very specific requirement to your use case. Yes it is doable but I do not there is an OOTB component for that.

Bottom line is that answer to your all of questions above is YES. However there will be some configuration / customization that'll have to be done to meet your organization specific requirements. It has a lot of features that provide quite a bit of flexibility.

HTH!