For content management we mean the processes of storing, editing, organizing and delivering content.

What is content regarding to sensenet?

In sensenet everything is a content. Documents, tasks, users, projects, even system configuration files – everything – are stored and managed in the content repository. It is the foundation that makes content management easy and powerful at the same time. All content items are organized in a content tree, so you can always think in subtrees and inheritance when managing and presenting content.

Basic content management actions in sensenet

All the features that can be called basic content management actions are included in sensenet, so you can create, edit or delete a content, copy or move it to another folder.

To learn more go to Actions

Can anybody do anything?

Content management is a collaborative process where every user has its own part (for example a user can have the permission to create a new content, he/she can open and see a content, but doesn’t have the permission to edit or delete it.). Permission management is critical in such system as we have to specify what the user can or cannot do with a certain content. Since sensenet content repository is a tree based hierarchical content structure it ensures permission inheritance, so it is enough to set a permission rule one time and it comes down in lower levels of the tree. This means, if you set a permission on a document library it will be automatically applied to sub-folders and contents (document level permission). You can easily set a permission also for a group and this way control the accessibility of predefined contents (role based permission).

Built-in and custom permissions

There is a set of basic built-in permissions, such as See, Open, Save, Delete etc., and it is even possible to add custom ones as well. Besides the built-in permission types (See, Open, etc.) sensenet defines custom permission types (Custom01, Custom02, etc.) that can be used for custom permission settings. A common example would be to allow a user to print a document (or deny it). It is possible to manage content permission settings through the admin surface, or with User Management and Permission APIs.