Advantage Glossary: Key Terms and Definitions

A

Asset Manager

Section for mass uploading videos, images, and documents.

C

Cascading Style Sheets (CSS)

Language for describing the presentation of documents in a markup language. Styles are stored within template CSS files.

Clone Current

Action to copy a page, retaining content and layout.

Content Editor

MS Word-like content controls (WYSIWYG) with options and icons for content crafting.

Content Editor Dialog Window

Embedded windows in the CMS for functions like preview, asset management, and third-party integrations.

Copy to Draft

Action for editing live content by bringing a production version into draft view.

D

Data Grid

Excel-like grids for listed data entries, commonly used in CMS tools.

Domain

A domain within your admin represents a registered application or website powered by your Advantage instance. With that, you can manage infinite domains.

Draft

A working copy within a CMS, with possible multiple copies of a page or entries within a tool.

H

Historical

Past versions of pages or tool content entries.

I

Image/File Picker

A control allowing quick access to an asset within a tool or module from the asset manager.

K

Keyword

An informative word used in an information retrieval system to indicate the content of a document.

L

Layouts

Zones within a selected template.

Live

Published website content.

Languages

Translated dialects managed through the CMS admin.

M

Media Queries

A CSS3 module allowing content rendering to adapt to conditions like screen resolution and orientation.

Metadata

A set of data that describes and gives information about other data.

Modules

Reusable components in your Page Manager for content binding to a page, rendered on the website's front end.

N

Node

A page entry within the navigation’s site tree.

O

Orphaned Modules

Modules no longer related to a zone due to layout changes within the Page Manager.

P

Page Manager

CMS section for managing navigation, page properties, module placement, and page structure.

Publish

Action to take a draft to a live state.

S

Site Tree

A representation of your website’s navigation manager.

SSL Certificates

Small data files that bind a cryptographic key to an organization's details, enabling secure connections from a web server to a browser via HTTPS.

Structured Data

Content entered through a Tool, reusable across multiple domains, pages, and zones.

T

Templates

Website’s master pages, potentially multiple with associated CSS themes.

Tools

Structured webforms in the Content Manager, serving as module data source.

U

Unstructured Data

Content entered through an editable module, existing only within a specific domain, page, and zone.

Z

Zones

Sections within a webpage for content placement.