Connect

Bases offer many ways to connect your content that make it more valuable and easier to work with.

• Group - Organize content in folders and fields.
• Categorize - Organize content into categories, taxonomies and other structures.
• Tag - Tag content for more relaxed free-form associations.
• Relate - Make one-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-many relationships.
• Link - Rich text fields can link to other content in the form of text hyperlinks, images and more.
• Hierarchies - Folder and content tree hierarchies make it easier work with complex content.
• Variants - Work with content variations, such as language translations, formats and channels.

Group

Content can be grouped in folders and fields.

Folders

Like traditional files, content can be organized in folders and sub-folders to form a folder hierarchy.  Content folders are managed in the Content Manager (CMS) App.

Content can be added to multiple folders using the Link option in the Collection Toolbar making it easy to access and manage the same content from multiple folders.

Content is typically unordered within a folder and automatically displayed alphabetically, by date, or other appropriate order.  However, it is also possible to manually order specific content types within folders when the content is filtered by that type.

Fields

More restricted and specific collections of content can be grouped within fields.  For example, slides within a slideshow.

Categorize

Categories are a formal set or hierarchy of labels assigned to items that define common characteristics.

Tag

Tags are used to a establish an informal content categorization system.

Relate

Content relationships are used to link or embed content items within another.  They connect a content item to a Single item (one-to-one) or List of items (one-to-many).

Links

Links are loosely bound to the item they belong to.  The linked item is independent and typically exists on its own in the Base.  When content is deleted, its links are removed, but the items they link to are not removed.  A copy and paste operation will create a copy of the links, but not a copy of the items they link to.

Embeds

Embeds are tightly bound to the item they belong to.  When content is deleted, its embedded content will be deleted as well.  A copy and paste operation will create a copy of all embedded content as well.  This simplifies content management operations and authorizations for content that will always belong within a content item and therefore be treated as one greater item for most operations.

Link

Links connect rich text to other content items, typically in the form of published web pages, images or other web content.

Hierarchies

Hierarchies provide a more intuitive way to manage and query content organized into a tree structure.  Three types of hierarchies are possible in webCOMAND.

• Folder Hierarchies
• Content Hierarchies
• Embedded Content

Folder Hierarchies

Folder hierarchies are formed by adding a folder within a folder from the Content Manager (CMS) App.  Folder hierarchies are a great way to organize content, especially when it will be helpful to apply authorizations and settings to folders within the hierarchy to simplify complex security schemes.

Content Hierarchies

Content items related to others of the same type can form drag-and-drop hierarchies.  For example, web pages within a website, or pages within a documentation project.

Embedded Content

Embedded content refers to content items that belong within another item through an embed relationship field.  Embedded content is tightly bound to the item they belong to.  For example, when a content item is deleted, its embedded content will be deleted as well.  A copy and paste operation will create a copy of all embedded content as well.  This simplifies many content management tasks and authorizations.

Embedded content implies hierarchy, in that embedded content falls under the item it belongs to.  Embedded hierarchies can support any depth when embedded content contains its own embedded content, and so on.  For example, a Web Page could embed Sections, and a Slideshow section could  embed Slides.  When the Web Page is deleted, so are its Sections, including the Slideshow and its Slides.

Variants

Variants make it possible to organize and manage multiple variations of a content item together.  For example, a Web Page may have an English and Spanish language variant.

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