events, such as adding content, joining a community group, and submitting a micro-message

a series of chronologically-arranged notification messages

a provider (such as email, SMS, and activity streams) that transmit messages.

a third-party editor that you can use with Ektron. See http://aloha-editor.org.

Application Programming Interface

A series of users or user groups who must approve content before it can be published.

an external file that is stored in Ektron.

a picture or image that is used in connection with your community membership profile.

short for Web Log

content delivery network; multiple computers that store copies of data on the nodes of a network.

A list of Ektron content links for display on a Web page.

either HTML content or an asset created via the Community Documents server control.

a user with limited privileges, such as writing to a community forum, but not having the same privileges as a forum moderator, or an administrator who has access to the Workarea. (A community user is the same as a membership user.)

Customer Relationship Management

Document Management System; Ektron's way of managing assets (Microsoft Office files and other types of files)

an area on a Web page where you can drag and drop a widget.

Ektron Markup Language

an icon that is used to express an emotion in text communication.

Enterprise Resource Planning

a means by which an end user provides feedback about content (because the content is offensive, or because the user likes the content). The feedback goes to an administrator or moderator for action.

Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure; a combination of HTTP and SSL/TLS protocols providing encrypted communication.

Internet Information Services (IIS) for Windows® Server, version 7

A special DxH connection type that updates Ektron content in response to content changes made in an external application.

International Standard Book Number

International Standard Serial Number

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol; permits access to distributed information.

Mapping- a relationship that determines what data passes between two software instances in a DxH connection.

a group of similar membership users, such as all engineers that have the same access priviledges to a community site. (A community user is the same as a membership user.)

a user with limited privileges, such as writing to a community forum, but not having the same privileges as a forum moderator, or an administrator who has access to the Workarea. (A community user is the same as a membership user.)

data about data

Network News Transfer Protocol; used for transporting Usenet articles between news servers.

consists of text and a triggering activity. When the activity occurs, the message is sent to eligible recipients.

Payment Application Data Security Standard; for software vendors that develop payment applications.

Personal Data Assistant

Permissions determine which actions users and user group members can perform on content, library items, and content folders. You can set permissions for a folder and content.

"PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor" is a widely-used Open Source general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development and can be embedded into HTML. Its syntax draws upon C, Java, and Perl, and is easy to learn. The main goal of the language is to allow web developers to write dynamically generated web pages quickly, but you can do much more with PHP. (Source: us2.php.net)

Quick Response Code; takes you to a Web site.

a special kind of hyperlink that jumps to another content item on your Web site. (A regular hyperlink jumps to a Web page on the internet.)

a colleague, or a member of a community group to which a person belongs, that gets a notification message.

regular expression; an alias that creates a pattern. For example, blogs.aspx?blogmonth=3&blogyear=2012&blogid=41 can be a RegEx blogs/2012/03/41. From that, a site visitor can infer blogs/2012/03/40 to see the previous post, or enter blogs/2012/03 to see all March 2012 posts

A limited or specific administrator privilege that you can assign to users who do not require full administrator privileges.

Rich Site Summary; regularly changing content, such as news sites and blogs link and send content to subscribers.

Software Distribution Kit

Search Engine Optimization - improving the visibility of search results

a server control uses API language to interact with the CMS and Framework UI to display the output. A server control can be dragged and dropped onto a Web form and then modified.

Secure Hash Algorithm

an Ektron-defined Web page that contains XML (hidden from the end user) to display content, and receive, verify, and save user input.

Short Message Service (SMS); used for texting.

Simple Mail Transport Protocol; an internet standard for electronic mail.

Secure Sockets Layer (https)

a keyword that you assign to a user, group, content, or library item to give it additional identification.

a content-level categorization system that uses one-to-many relationships to create a scalable organization of content. A taxonomy lets you create a navigation system that is independent of the folder structure.

a content-level categorization system that uses one-to-many relationships to create a scalable organization of content. A taxonomy lets you create a navigation system that is independent of the folder structure.

an Ektron-defined variable that surrounded by at signs (@). For example, @SubjectUser.FirstName@. This variable gets translated in message notifications.

Universal Resource Locator

Widgets are mini-applications that you place on a Web page using PageBuilder; a widget provides either specific functionality (calculators, search, social bars, etc.) or areas into which you can add content (content blocks, list summaries, collections, and so on).

the architecture of a Web page containing columns, dropzones, and layout information.

XML Localization Interchange File Format

Extensible Stylesheet Language

Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations