Personalisation
Administrators can define categories that editors can then
easily apply to pages. This powerful functionality is developer
extensible and can be used to drive custom menus, related links,
news lists and so on.
For example, a Government organisation may mark some content
with an 'Resident' category and another with a 'Visitor' category,
still other items may be marked as 'Business'. Users visiting the
home page may then select from option buttons that indicate whether
they are a resident, a visitor or a business user. Content that has
been marked accordingly will then be presented to the user in a
menu.
A subscription service is available that allows users to
register an interest in content and to be kept up to date with
changes in the requested sections by email.
A full membership system is incorporated into Immediacy. This
allows sections of the site to be password protected and accessible
to registered user groups. Once authenticated, content and menus
can be personalised depending on a users access rights.
Various other personalisation schemes are possible, such as
displaying different content via templates specific to a user group
once logged on. Examples of these capabilities can be found in the
section on functionality.
The system is very open and developer extensible using the
in-built 'plumbing' of membership, metadata and flexible template
application, so virtually any personalisation scheme can be
implemented.