Kentico CMS

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Kentico CMS
Software Details:
Version: 8.2
Upload Date: 1 Mar 15
Developer: Kentico Software
Distribution Type: Shareware
Price: 2499.00 $
Downloads: 186

Rating: nan/5 (Total Votes: 0)

Kentico CMS is a combination between a CMS, a discussion board, a blogging engine and an e-commerce platform.

It allow developers to build all of the above, and even much more other types of websites.

Kentico is a complete Web platform for building any type of website you using the power of ASP.NET and SQL Server.

The CMS has been used in the past by big name companies like Samsung, Ford, ESPN, Mazda, Sony, DKNY, McDonalds, O2, Vodafone, Subaru, Orange, and even Microsoft itself.

If you have a few thousands of dollars laying around than don't hesitate to use it, otherwise take a look at its free version instead.

Features:

  • Multi-lingual support
  • Multi-site support
  • E-commerce features
  • Advanced security
  • WYSIWYG editor
  • Blogs
  • Workflow management
  • Forums
  • Event calendar
  • Booking system
  • Newsletter
  • Image gallery
  • Form builder
  • Table builder
  • SEO-friendly URLs
  • Private messaging
  • Full-text search engine
  • Polls
  • Web analytics
  • Wiki
  • Reporting
  • Geomapping
  • Extendable via modules
  • Support for widgets
  • Support for reusable code snippets
  • Page templates
  • Style editor
  • Spelling checker
  • Media library manager
  • Content versioning
  • Content archiving
  • Logging system
  • Debug tools
  • RSS syndication
  • Support for cloud infrastructures
  • WebDAV support
  • Userbase management
  • Fine-grained permissions system
  • User groups

What is new in this release:

  • Email marketing usability enhancements
  • Import contacts from a file
  • Modules improvements
  • Support for separated database in the upgrade procedure
  • Translation improvements
  • Online marketing performance improvements
  • Precompilation enhancements
  • SharePoint bi-directional synchronization
  • Shipping improvements

What is new in version 8.1:

  • 'Buy X, Get Y' discount capabilities
  • Live tiles and dashboard improvements
  • LinkedIn integration
  • SharePoint integration improvements
  • Online Marketing performance improvements

What is new in version 8.0:

  • 1-step checkout process
  • A/B testing improvements
  • CKEditor v4.3
  • CSS preprocessors support
  • Data.com improvements
  • Form builder
  • Module development
  • New installer
  • Personas
  • Product variants
  • ReCaptcha integration
  • Rule-based discounts
  • Social Marketing analytics
  • Social Marketing
  • Strands recommender integration
  • Support for Windows Azure SDK 2.2
  • Windows Azure deployment improvements

What is new in version 7.0:

  • New module - Wireframing - Framework and set of web parts which allows to create wireframes within the web site structure.
  • New module - Advanced Workflow - Allows creating most complex workflows using a graphic designer.
  • New module - Translation services - Integration with both automated (Google, Bing) and manual (Translations.com, e-mail) translation providers.
  • New module - Device profiles and layouts - Allows defining device profiles according to visitor device and use this profile to create custom page layouts for such device.
  • New module - Banner management - Allows you to display advertisements or other content in the form of banners.
  • New module - Javascript management - Allows to manage and link extra javascript within the project file system.
  • Content - On-Site editing - Content editors can use On-Site editing mode to edit documents directly from live site.
  • Content - Validation - Added accessibility validator.

What is new in version 6.0:

  • NEW:
  • Attachments - New properties were added to store metadata information such as title and description.
  • Bi-directional staging - Support for synchronization across multiple servers in both directions.
  • Custom tables/Forms - New filters to filter Custom table and Form items.
  • Documents - Preview link - Allows to display the latest version of a document outside of CMS Desk.
  • Form controls - CAPTCHA controls - More types of CAPTCHA controls for protection.
  • General - HTML5 Multimedia Support
  • Meta files - New properties were added to store metadata information such as title and description.
  • New control: Universal viewer - Renders content of a specified document using transfromations. Provides improved support for displaying of hierarchical data.
  • New Kentico Installation Manager - Allows to manage Kentico CMS installations from one place, to apply hotfixes and upgrades and to manage Windows Services of the installations
  • New module - Contact management and segmentation. Allows to gather, manage and process information about visitors on one place
  • New Silent Install. Allows to install Kentico CMS from command line
  • Sample site - New sample Corporate Site web site.
  • Services - REST/ODATA Service
  • Side by side comparison - Provides comparison of two language versions of a document.
  • Single sign-on - Allows switching between CMS Desk of different sites without the need to sign-on.
  • Staging - Document permissions are synchronized with a document.
  • Transformations - Several new transformation methods.
  • UI - Icons in content tree - New icons in the Content tree display status of a document.
  • Utilities - Import Toolkit Utility
  • Validators - Provides a set of validators to validate documents against validation standards, including XHTML valdiator, CSS validator and link checker.
  • Web parts - Admin actions web part - Provides links to administration user interface.
  • Web parts - Google and Bing translator web parts - Allow to translate page content using these external services.
  • WebDAV - Browse mode - Allows mapping all supported types of content as a network drive.
  • Changes:
  • AD Import Utility - Minor improvements in user interface.
  • API Improvements - Better customization with new handlers.
  • Bad words - New bad word property to match only whole words in checked text.
  • Caching Improvements - Client caching + Output caching in filesystem.
  • Controls - More controls and web parts now generate US Section 508 valid markup.
  • Custom tables - Records may be managed via Site Manager too
  • Date time picker - Rewritten to a new version.
  • Debug - New IO and aggregated debug, all debugs can be enabled from settings in the Site Manager.
  • Document categories - Site separation (you can share categories across multiple websites or keep them completely separate)
  • E-commerce - Text product option (custom text which can be defined for the given product, e.g. label on a T-shirt)
  • E-mail engine - Support for AlternativeView when sending HTML + plain text versions of an e-mail
  • Events - Support for multi-day events
  • Files management - Integration of multi-file uploader into the whole user interface
  • Form engine - New Field Editor and support for Form control parameters
  • General - Web part containers, queries, CSS style sheets and transformations may be edited or created from CMSDesk
  • Image editor - Support for Undo/Redo actions and Cropping tool
  • Import/Export - Direct upload of a package from import wizard user interface.
  • Membership - Added support for password reset e-mail approval by users.
  • Messaging - Support for bulk actions with messages.
  • Multivariate testing - Allows you to define any number of elements on a page as variables test the performance of each one.
  • New module: Membership - Can be used to define special types of user membership for the website (or globally for all sites in the system).
  • Newsletter - Support for double opt-in
  • Polls - Separate polls per site
  • Portal engine - Support of mixed portal engine and ASPX mode.
  • Reporting - Support for hierarchical reports.
  • Security - New document type permissions ‘Create anywhere' and ‘Create' to better handle permissions for creation of documents.
  • Settings - Support for creating hierarchical settings
  • Smart search - Ability to define custom search indexes.
  • Smart search - Smart search preview in Site Manager.
  • System tables - Support for management of views and stored procedures
  • Themes - CSS styles for components (transformations, web parts, page templates, etc.).
  • Url rewriting - Reduced number of redirects.
  • Web analytics - Conversion management.
  • Web farms - Server availability checker.
  • Web part - Google Analytics - Support for asynchronous scripts.
  • Widgets - New set of widgets.
  • Windows Azure - Ability to configure application settings in the service configuration file.
  • Workflow - The Archive button is displayed in each step of a workflow.
  • WYSIWYG editor - FCK editor was replaced by new CK editor
  • Bug fixes:
  • Attachments - Unsorted attachments weren't displayed correctly in the Properties section of CMS Desk in special cases.
  • Documents - Cross-site linked documents displayed a page not found error in special cases. If you encounter this problem, you have to add the following appSettings key to the web.config file: .
  • Documents - The Document selector form control didn't work correctly when used on linked documents.
  • Documents - The DocumentNamePath field wasn't trimmed properly after a document was updated.
  • Import/Export - Module folders weren't imported correctly in special cases.
  • Import/Export - The Import and Export processes couldn't handle some special characters in the data.
  • Intranet Portal - If you wish to use Quick links widgets (Department quick links, Workgroup quick links, Intranet quick links), please open the Site Manager, select Development -> Widgets, find the widget in the Intranet Portal category and replace the default application paths in the Text property with the path of your application.
  • Intranet Portal - Role permissions weren't set correctly in special cases for Forum and Media library objects created as part of a department.
  • Intranet Portal - The RSS Forum posts page template incorrectly also displayed department forum posts. To fix this issue, please see the instructions at the end of this document.
  • Licensing - OpenID authentication wasn't included with the Social networking package.
  • Linked documents - Document name path of linked documents wasn't handled correctly in special cases.
  • List mode - Duplicate messages were displayed when a node with no child documents was selected.
  • Macros - The (handlesinjection) macro parameter was propagated to all macros following after the first occurrence of a macro with this parameter set.
  • Macros - The (handlessqlinjection) macro parameter wasn't automatically added to the web part properties resolver.
  • Macros - The (notrecursive) macro parameter was propagated to all macros following after the first occurrence of a macro with this parameter.
  • Media library - Web farm tasks for creating new media files didn't check the value of the 'CMSWebFarmMaxFileSize' web config key.
  • Medium trust - It was impossible to delete a site while using .NET 4.0 in a medium trust environment.
  • Membership - CMSRoleProvider didn't work correctly with allowed roles specified in the authorization section of the web.config file.
  • Membership - Updating the settings of a user could cause duplicate records when performed under a heavy load.
  • Message boards - Original and linked documents didn't share the same message board data.
  • Messaging - Actions were not hidden properly when error occurred during sending a message.
  • Messaging - It was incorrectly possible to reply/forward a message with an empty message body.
  • Mobile support - PDF files weren't opened correctly in the Android mobile browser.
  • Newsletters - A newsletter issue template was incorrectly required to create a new dynamic newsletter.
  • Notifications - The e-mail notification gateway logged an exception if the notification control couldn't be found.
  • Notifications - The notification sender wasn't thread safe.
  • On-line forms - File extension validation was skipped if the size of the file was 0 bytes.
  • Page templates - Document inheritance was ignored for templates set as master templates.
  • Page templates - When selecting document content inheritance levels, incorrect items were displayed in special cases if the path contained linked documents.
  • Permissions - The drop-down list for site selection didn't refresh the permission matrix when used via a modal dialog.
  • Project management - Ad-hoc (personal) tasks were causing an error during the import procedure.
  • Project management - Users and roles couldn't be deleted in special cases due to project or task dependencies.
  • Relationships - Relationships not assigned to the current site were displayed in CMS Desk -> Properties.
  • Relationships - The path to the related document wasn't stored in a textbox field if the related document was on the right side.
  • Reporting - Line graphs caused an exception when displaying data with only one record.
  • Resource strings - Users weren't able to edit resource strings if the database contained a record with an empty KeyName field.
  • Security - Moving the position of a document was allowed in special case even if the user didn't have the Modify permission.
  • Security - The password retrieval feature in the Logon form web part didn't work correctly in special cases.
  • SharePoint integration - Web parts didn't display columns with special characters in their name.
  • Smart search - Index rebuilding didn't work with specific environment settings.
  • Smart search - Special characters entered into the search keywords could cause a parsing exception in special cases.
  • Smart search - The maximum search field size was set to a default value without the possibility of changing it. If you wish to change this value, you can now set the CMSSearchMaxFieldLength appSettings key in the web.config file.
  • Web parts - The XML Data source web part didn't work correctly with feeds using additional namespaces.
  • Web parts and controls - The content of the Editable text web part wasn't validated to reflect maximum length when the Check in action was used.
  • Web parts and widgets - Localization macros weren't resolved in the titles of web parts and widgets.
  • WebDAV - rebuilding of the source code caused an assembly version conflict.
  • Widgets - The widget selector didn't display widgets in sub-categories correctly in special cases.
  • Windows authentication - Updating the settings of a user caused duplicate records when performed under a heavy load with windows authentication enabled. You can set the appSetting key CMSUpdateLastLogonForExternalUsers to false to limit unwanted user updates.
  • Windows authentication - Windows authentication caused a redirection loop when a site was accessed by a user disabled in the system.
  • Workflow - Having the root node under workflow without check-in/check-out caused an error during the saving process.
  • Workflow - The check-in operation on the Versions tab of documents didn't work correctly in special cases.
  • WYSIWYG editor - The border of the WYSIWYG editor wasn't displayed properly in Firefox 4.
  • WYSIWYG editor - The WYSIWYG editor didn't work properly when it was placed in an update panel.
  • WYSIWYG editor - UI personalization didn't work correctly for the editor toolbar while using the Turkish culture.
  • Yahoo Map - The "Show scale control" and "Show navigation control" properties of the web part didn't work correctly.

What is new in version 5.5 R2:

  • New:
  • New module: Project management - Supports project & task management
  • New module: WebDAV - Enables editing of document attachments directly through the client application (such as MS Word).
  • New module: Document library - Supports the management of document files through the live site UI.
  • New module: Departments - Provides support for templated department sub-sections within the website.
  • Workflow - Support for versioning without workflow
  • Sample sites - Intranet Portal Starter Site web template
  • Sharepoint - Support for MS SharePoint Server 2010
  • Groups - Group managers can define the group's graphical theme
  • Groups - New options in the properties of group web parts
  • Changes:
  • Windows authentication - Logout controls are not visible under windows authentication.
  • Blog comments RSS web part - The Check permissions property was removed because it was not needed.
  • Controls - More controls and web parts now generate US Section 508 valid markup.

What is new in version 3.1a:

  • New:
  • Administration UI: HTML editor is used for editing invoice.
  • Administration UI: Link to an existing document can be created from the context menu.
  • Administration UI: New macro selector control is used to insert all possible macros to the text.
  • Administration UI: Color picker control now includes preview of the selected color.
  • Administration UI: Section summary for the pages of administration UI.
  • Administration UI: Minor improvements in all UI.
  • General: Improved output filter functionality.
  • General: All regular expressions for validation and macro resolving were optimized.
  • General: Performance optimizations for amount of data and memory consumption.
  • General: Configurable selection between standard and session authentication cookies.
  • Ecommerce: Product price can be optionally displayed with or without tax.
  • Ecommerce: Product option list can be now paged.
  • Ecommerce: User account can be created at the same time as customer account from CMSDesk.
  • Ecommerce: All currency related values can be now recalculated when changing main currency.
  • Ecommerce: Tax class details can be edited when selecting tax classes for specified product.
  • Ecommerce: Shopping cart process step indexes can be now optionally hidden or visible.
  • Ecommerce: My Account web part tabs can be now displayed either in horizontal or vertical layout.
  • Ecommerce: Shipping options are now displayed with their charge in the checkout process.
  • Ecommerce: All errors while loading payment provider, payment form or checkout process step are now logged.
  • Event log: Event details can be exported to the file.
  • Event log: Events can be optionally logged to the file now.
  • Modules: Module description field was added.
  • Modules: Module permission description field was added.
  • Modules: New Display permission for all modules. Module is now hidden in tools menu when user is not granted with module display permission.
  • Newsletter: Imported users can be optionally subscribed / unsubscribed to the selected newsletters.
  • Newsletter: Email queue can be now deleted at once.
  • Scheduler: User can see how many times each task was executed.
  • Settings: Settings can be exported to the file.
  • Staging: Reject task is now generated for synchronization with target server when document is rejected.
  • Staging: Update doc task is now generated for synchronization with target server when document is moved up or down in the content tree.
  • System: Testing e-mails can be sent with attachments.
  • Web farms: Web farm synchronization tasks can be now filtered by server.
  • Web farms: Servers can be now disabled to avoid tasks logging for them.
  • Web farms: MachineName field was added to the web farm tasks.
  • Web parts: Improved scrolling text web part.
  • Web parts: Improved current user web part.
  • Changes:
  • General: XHTML output filter is now turned off by default on all sample web sites.
  • Web parts: Properties NestedRepeaterID and NestedDataListID were replaced by NestedControlsID property.
  • Bug fixes:
  • Administration UI: RTL languages layout was completely reviewed and fixed.
  • Administration UI: Some pages weren't properly handled for cross-site scripting.
  • Administration UI: Minor fixes for IE7 and FF3.
  • Administration UI: Security fixes for some UI pages
  • BizForms: Incorrect security check was applied in permission dialog.
  • BizForms: Administration of BizForm layout used too strict permissions.
  • Booking module: Event allowed negative capacity.
  • CMSDesk: Select file dialog couldn't upload file on Windows Vista.
  • CMSDesk: Document links with workflow could cause inconsistency in document tree if the document was moved.
  • CMSDesk: Notify when leaving page wasn't applied in some cases.
  • CMSDesk: Spell checker didn't work for words with some culture-specific characters.
  • CMSDesk: Published information in document properties wasn't evaluated properly.
  • CMSDesk: The document wasn't inserted on the correct position when the default order was changed from alphabetical to first.
  • Content: Metadata content wasn't properly encoded to the output HTML.
  • Content: When the image caching was on, original image could be returned instead of the resized image.
  • Content: Cached attachment wasn't removed from the cache if the attachment was updated from API.
  • Content: ASPX editable controls were losing the content with specific workflow operations.
  • Content: Copying of published document didn't include the published attachments.
  • Content: Rollback to the oldest version in version history could lose the version attachments.
  • Content: File field could lose the attachment when copying the culture version from specific language.
  • Content: When the attachment field of the document type was removed, attachments weren't deleted.
  • Content: Allowed extensions for upload fields didn't have the same format in all settings.
  • Content: Uploaded files allowed "+" sign in the filename, which couldn't be correctly processed by IIS7.
  • Content: GetFile script didn't handle the permissions correctly.
  • Controls: Editable image could cause null reference exception in specific scenarios.
  • Controls: Radiobutton list form control didn't apply some settings correctly.
  • Controls: Form control text area didn't validate the field length properly.
  • Controls: Property UseImagePath for editable image control didn't work properly.
  • Controls: Radiobutton list form control couldn't have empty default value.
  • Controls: Change password control didn't handle the Visible property correctly.
  • Documentation: Minor fixes in the documentation.
  • ECommerce: Payment methods and Shipping options weren't displayed properly in their selection.
  • ECommerce: Available amount validation could not work correctly in specific scenarios.
  • E-mails: Some e-mails contained multiple Content-Type headers.
  • E-mails: GetEmailTemplates method threw an exception.
  • File import: Files couldn't be imported to the location covered by workflow process.
  • General: Automatic import of Windows authenticated users wasn't working correctly for non-existing users.
  • General: Changing the code name of the web site could cause problems with live site if the application wasn't restarted.
  • General: Application couldn't properly start in Integrated mode of IIS7.
  • General: Culture of the live site wasn't changed correctly in some cases with full page caching configuration.
  • General: Uzbek cultures weren't defined properly.
  • General: Changing the order of items didn't clear the cached objects properly.
  • General: Localized transformations weren't cached.
  • General: Float number validation and conversion couldn't handle small numbers with exponent.
  • General: Param tag of the object element could cause incorrect HTML code when processed by output filter.
  • Import/Export: Forum posts weren't properly imported from old version package.
  • Import/Export: Custom web part categories couldn't be handled by import process in some specific cases.
  • Import/Export: Some delete tasks couldn't be processed correctly on import.
  • Import/Export: Existing site was deleted if import fails because of the existing site with the same name.
  • Import/Export: Process log couldn't work in specific scenarios.
  • Import/Export: Preselection of objects wasn't working properly when repeated.
  • Import/Export: Next button wasn't disabled in FF3.
  • Import/Export: Document fields with only field length changed weren't updated on import.
  • Newsletter: Some e-mails could use different culture for unsubscription link and for other newsletter content.
  • Newsletter: Newsletter module couldn't handle large amount of e-mails in specific scenarios.
  • Newsletter: Some e-mails were duplicated in specific scenarios.
  • Newsletter: Resend functionality wasn't working properly.
  • Newsletter: Scheduled task for the newsletter wasn't rescheduled if configuration changed.
  • Newsletter: New issue couldn't be placed to the Newsletter archive
  • Newsletter: Generation of the e-mail queue was using too many database queries.
  • Newsletter: Some newsletter pages didn't check all required permissions.
  • Newsletter: Newsletter archive didn't resolve the macros properly.
  • Output filter: Button text containing tag characters could damage the output HTML code.
  • Polls: Multiple polls couldn't work properly on the same page.
  • Polls: Incorrect security check was applied in permission dialog.
  • Portal engine: Some pages could be displayed with wrong page template in heavy load.
  • Portal engine: If the CSS stylesheet of the site wasn't set, the page generated an empty stylesheet tag.
  • Sample web sites: Minor fixes in design and HTML code of the page templates and stylesheets.
  • Scheduler: Some tasks could run two times under specific conditions.
  • SiteManager: Some Administration pages could be accessed from CMSDesk in SiteManager context.
  • SiteManager: User couldn't be deleted when he was allowed to be forum moderator.
  • SiteManager: Site culture couldn't be changed in license editions without multilingual support.
  • SiteManager: Localized transformation name couldn't be entered in transformation properties.
  • SiteManager: Document type editing pages didn't have the same length.
  • Staging: Document task didn't contain product information when the product was created from the new document dialog.
  • URL Rewriting: Some URLs weren't resolved correctly for cookieless configuration.
  • URL Rewriting: Messaging pages weren't properly excluded from URL rewriting and were logged as not existing content pages.
  • URL Rewriting: Page wasn't properly redirected in specific cases with FF browser.
  • Web analytics: Log processing couldn't handle large amount of data at once.
  • Web analytics: Returning visitors were logged only on the second visit.
  • Web farms: Too many web farm tasks or too much web farm task data could kill the application on it's start.
  • Web parts: Clone web part couldn't work with some specific web part settings.
  • Web parts: Content slider wasn't working properly if the delay time was 0.
  • Web parts: Google maps web part couldn't handle API key for both domains with and without www.
  • Web parts: Query repeater web part didn't use the Item separator property correctly.
  • Web parts: User contribution web part couldn't resolve the path properties.
  • Web parts: Language selector didn't display culture names in ASPX page templates.
  • Web parts: Date and time web part couldn't handle some format expressions.
  • Web parts: Contact and ignore list didn't use the Zero rows text property properly.
  • Web parts: Video web part wasn't working properly in FF3.

Requirements:

  • .NET Framework 4.0 or higher
  • SQL Server 2008 or higher
  • IIS 7 or higher

Limitations:

  • Free edition:
  • 1 global administrator user account per installation
  • 1 editor per web site
  • 1000 documents/pages per web site
  • 100 site members per web site
  • you are required to put the Powered by Kentico CMS logo in the footer of all pages managed by Kentico CMS
  • the support is available only through forums without any guarantee (e-mail and phone support is only available for the users of the paid editions and for evaluators)

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