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Features

Created by hww3. Last updated by hww3, 17 years ago. Version #8.

Features

This is an incomplete list of currently available features in FinScribe:

• Flexible Wiki engine using SnipSnap compatible markup
• Weblog functionality
• Multiple Weblogs per application (each page may be a weblog)
• Deferred posting of weblog entries (author now, post later)
• Multi-user capable
• Completely skinnable using Themes
• Per-object Comments
• Optional anonymous commenting with mandatory reCAPTCHA spam control
• Commenting disable for a document
• Access Control Lists (ACL) for secure control of objects and weblogs
• Extendible via Plugins (both wiki markup and application level macros)
• Many macros: photo album, rss output, category clouds, etc.
• Produces RSS 2.0 feeds for Weblogs, with embedding linking to RSS feed for Feedreaders and services such as http://technorati.com.
• RSS 2.0 Feeds for version history and comments for any object (in addition to weblog posts), as well as a feed of categories
• Includes an RSS 0.92/1.0/2.0 feed reader
• Automatic BackLink calculation and display.
• Supports TrackBack (pinging and receiving) with automatic TrackBack URL detection
• Supports PingBack (see http://ln.hixie.ch/?start for more info)
• Supports pinging Weblogs.com (or other services, such as http://technorati.com or http://pingomatic.com/for blog update announcements
• Category (tagging) support, including RSS feeds of category contents and individual RSS items includes category assignments (useful for services like Technorati).
• Attachment support
• Object locking (make a document writable by its owner only.)
• Object management: move, delete
• User administration
• User self-registration
• Skinnable interface using CSS
• Graceful degradation of AJAX features when desired (or when the browser doesn't support them)
• Versioning capability (new versions are created upon object saves)
• Visual Diffs and selection of versions
• Web based install GUI
• Pluggable article input widgets (includes wiki and WYSIWYG HTML via Dojo)
• Extendible using plugins (renderers, macros, event handlers, new paths, etc)
• Full text searching using Lucene (alpha quality)
• Caching of rendered content speeds delivery of pages by a factor of 10.
• Deployable as a standalone web server, as a module within http://caudium.net, or using http://www.fastcgi.com (tested with Apache and ligHTTPD) or http://www.mems-exchange.org/software/scgi (tested with ligHTTPD).

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