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Content Management

Keep a Cascade CMS site healthy — workflows and their triggers, the reporting suite, tasks, relationships, content review, and the trash.

Where to start

1

Route content for approval

Build a Workflow Definition from steps, actions, and triggers so content is reviewed before it goes live.

Workflows →
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Automate the steps

Attach triggers to workflow actions to publish, version, assign owners, or send email as a workflow advances.

Workflow Triggers →
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Keep an eye on the site

Use the reports to find broken links, accessibility issues, stale pages, and content with no clear owner.

Reports →

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Accessibility Report

The site Accessibility Report allows you to monitor and review WCAG 2.0 Level A - AAA accessibility issues across an entire site, based on a weekly report of content rendered within Cascade CMS.

Active Users Report

The Active Users report provides a list of users logged into the system.

Assign Step If User Trigger

Advances a workflow to the step specified by the next parameter, if previous step was executed by a specified user.

Assign To Content Owner of Asset Trigger

Assigns the following step to the content owner of the asset in workflow.

Assign To Group Owning Asset Trigger

Assigns the following step to the group with write access to the parent folder of the asset in workflow.

Assign to Specified Group Trigger

This trigger is used to assign a workflow to a group.

Assign To Workflow Owner Trigger

Assigns the following step to the user that initiated the workflow.

Assigning Workflows

In Cascade CMS, workflows can either be used as part of an Asset Factory for the creation of new content, or assigned to a folder to control actions taken on contained content.

Background Tasks

The Background Tasks report provides a list of completed and running tasks in the system.

Broken Links Report

Enable, read, filter, and export the Broken Links Report in Cascade CMS, and work through the results to fix broken links in your site.

Content Inventory Report

The Content Inventory Report provides users with a comprehensive overview of their site's assets, allowing for filtering by various criteria such as asset types, publish status, and owners. Users can assign content ownership, identify stale content, and send notifications for assets that require review. Additionally, users can schedule review dates and export report results as a CSV file for further analysis.

Content Ownership Report

The Content Ownership report displays assets owned by users in the system.

Content Review

The Review Date metadata field helps you to keep your content up to date by allowing you to schedule reviews for assets.

Content Reviews Report

The Content Reviews report provides a list of assets that have upcoming or past-due review dates.

Copy Folder Trigger

Copies the parent folder of the asset in workflow into a designated location.

Create New Workflow Trigger

This trigger starts new workflows for analogous assets to support translation capabilities or cross-site content synchronization.

Custom Workflow Emails

Custom Workflow Emails allow you to personalize your workflow notification and completion emails. A WYSIWYG editor plus dropdowns to insert placeholders for workflow details makes it simple to build templates for informative and actionable emails.

Delete Parent Folder Trigger

This trigger deletes the parent folder of the asset in workflow as well as all contents of that folder.

Delete Trigger

This trigger deletes the asset in the workflow.

Email Trigger

Reference for the Cascade CMS workflow Email trigger — its declaration, usage, and the mode, recipients-email, recipient-users, and recipient-groups parameters.

How do I delete a Workflow?

Click Delete Workflow from the workflow itself — and where to look if you can't find the workflow.

How do I restore something I deleted from the trash / recycle bin?

Select the items in the Trash above the folder tree and click Restore. Access requires one of two Site Role abilities.

Merge Trigger

Merges any changes into the system repository.

Preserve Current User Trigger

Acts as a workaround solution when a workflow is submitted to a group instead of a user.

Publish Containing Publish Set Trigger

This trigger is used to publish out publish sets that the asset in workflow is a member of.

Publish Parent Folder Trigger

Publishes the parent folder of the asset in workflow.

Publish Set Trigger

Publishes all assets in a designated Publish Set.

Publish Trigger

Publishes the current asset in workflow (if publishable) to all enabled Destinations available.

Receiving Workflow Notifications

You can be notified of waiting workflows by email or in the My Workflows dashboard widget.

Relationships

View and publish content that links to an asset.

Reports

The reports available in Cascade CMS for monitoring user activity, content ownership, accessibility, broken links, and stale or unused assets.

Stale Content Report

The Stale Content report displays a list of assets that have not been modified within a specified time period.

Suggested Unused Assets Report

The Suggested Unused Assets report displays a list of assets that are not explicitly linked to or chosen by other assets in Cascade CMS.

Tasks

Tasks allow content managers and contributors to create and organize their to-do lists in Cascade CMS.

Trash

The Trash area allows you to view, restore, or empty all deleted assets in your Cascade CMS Site.

Unpublish and Delete Trigger

Allows for unpublishing content and deleting it at the same time.

User Activity Report

The User Activity report provides usage statistics for common actions users take in the system, including: Creates Edits Publishes Deletes Logins Tip - Click any non-zero number in the report to view an audit pre-filtered for that user and action.

Version Trigger

Creates a version of the page that will be stored as the most current version.

Workflow Triggers

What workflow triggers are, how they attach to workflow actions, and a reference list of every pre-defined trigger in Cascade CMS.

Workflow XML Schema Reference

Every element and attribute available in a Cascade CMS Workflow Definition XML file — triggers, steps, actions, and the transitions between them.

Workflows

How Workflow Definitions work in Cascade CMS — building them from steps, actions, and triggers, previewing the flow diagram, and choosing between the XML editor and Workflow Builder.

Workflows Report

The Workflows report displays a list of in-progress and/or completed workflows within sites that you can access.