Features are by default activated by setting them to boolean true
and deactivated by setting them to false
. These are the allowed settings for all features, if not documented otherwise.
Discontinued features can be found on our list of discontinued features
1 Advanced Parallel
$FEATURE["advanced_parallel"] = true;
This feature extends capability of parallel tasks for the scheduler. When enabled, you can run multiple parallel jobs, that are followed up by a non-parallel job. The scheduler will then make sure that the non-parallel job won’t start unless all of the parallel jobs have been finished.
2 Activiti Integration
$FEATURE['activiti_integration'] = true;
This features enables the integration of an external BPM Engine Server, based on the Activiti Business Process Management Platform, into the CMS.
The configuration of this feature is in an extra .properties
file.
3 Aloha Editor
$FEATURE["aloha"] = true;
Will enable Aloha Editor for Gentics Content.Node.
4 Always localize
See Always localize
5 Annotating Aloha Editables
$FEATURE["aloha_annotate_editables"] = true;
For details, read continue reading about Annotating Editables
6 Autocomplete Folder Paths
$FEATURE["autocomplete_folder_path"] = true;
autocomplete_folder_path will automatically generate meaningful folder path name as you type the folder name.
7 Construct Autoenable
$FEATURE["construct_autoenable"] = true;
This feature will add a flag “autoenable” to the Tagtype properties dialog. Activating this flag will autoenable a Tag that has been placed in a page, so that the editor does not have to click on it in order to render its contents.
8 Context Path Configuration
See Context Path
9 Channel Synchronization
10 Contentgroup3 (Languages)
$FEATURE["contentgroup3"] = true;
Must be set to true.
11 Copy Tags
$FEATURE["copy_tags"] = true;
or (activate the feature for specific nodes)
$FEATURE["copy_tags"] = array(42 => true, 99 => true);
This feature allows copy & paste of tags. Find further information in the section about Copy Tags
12 Custom Streams
$FEATURE["custom_streams"] = true;
Will allow you to use custom header and login graphics with Gentics Content.Node. The images will be loaded from /Node/node/system/custom_streams.
13 Customform resolve nodetags
$FEATURE["customform_resolve_nodetags"] = true;
This feature enables parsing of <node> – tags in custom form parts of tags. See Using meta attributes for more information.
14 Daisy Diff
$FEATURE["useDaisyDiff"] = true;
Enable improved html diffs using the dasydiff algorithm
15 Disable instant delete
16 Disable Version Diff Choice
$FEATURE["disable_version_diff_choice"] = true;
This feature disables the selection of a version when creating new language translations of a Page and automatically selects the most recent version to be shown in the split view for translation.
17 Edit MIME-Type
$FEATURE["edit_mimetype"] = true;
Allows you to directly edit MIME-Types of files.
18 Filesystem Attributes
$FEATURE["cr_filesystem_attributes"] = true;
With this feature, it is possible to store attributes in contentrepositories in the filesystem instead of the database.
19 File Fetch
See Gentics Content.Node Image Import
20 File publish dependencies
$FEATURE["contentfile_auto_offline"] = true;
With this feature, it is possible to configure nodes, for which images and files, that are not used by other objects (pages or folders) will not be published into the filesystem and contentrepository.
21 GenticsImageStore
22 Hardlink Files
$FEATURE["hardlink_files"] = true;
Use hardlinks for files and images instead of softlinks when publishing to the filesystem.
23 History
$FEATURE["history"] = true;
Will display a small history of actions in the assistant.
24 Image Import
25 Image Manipulation 2
26 Inbox to eMail
$FEATURE["inbox_to_email"] = true;
When this feature is enabled, inbox messages are also sent as eMails. Find further information in the section about eMail sending
27 Instant Messages
$FEATURE["instantmessages"] = true;
Will allow you to send instant messages to other users which are then displayed as an overlay over the tree. Instant messages will be delivered that way for five minutes (unless you use instantmessages_customtime). After that period of time they are delivered like every other message using the system’s inbox.
28 Instant Message Customtime
$FEATURE["instantmessages_customtime"] = true;
Will allow you to define how long the message should be displayed as an instant message.
29 Invalid Page URL Message
$FEATURE["invalidpageurlmsg"] = true;
If internal links resolve to objects that are not online anymore, the system will send a message to the editor who last published the page.
30 Language Code in Filename
$FEATURE["contentgroup3_pagefilename"]=true;
Page file names will include an abbreviation of the page language.
Example: When the page “Testpage” is created in English, with an HTML template, the filename will be “testpage.en.html” (or e.g. “testpage1.en.html”, if the former filename already exists). When the page properties are modified and the filename set to empty, this will also include the language code into the filename.
31 Instant Publishing
This feature allows enabling the immediate writing of published objects into a ContentRepository.
$FEATURE["instant_cr_publishing"] = true;
For details, read continue reading about Instant Publishing
32 Invalid Page URL Message
$FEATURE["invalidpageurlmsg"] = true;
If internal links resolve to objects that are not online anymore, the system will send a message to the editor who last published the page.
33 Live URLs
$FEATURE["live_urls"] = true;
See Live URLs
34 Magic Value
See Magic Value
35 Maintenance Mode
$FEATURE["maintenance_mode"] = true;
Allows you to switch the system into maintenance mode if you need to do larger scale maintenance. In maintenance mode no other users may login except for the user who triggered maintenance mode.
36 Mandatory Tags
How to use mandatory tags to prevent publishing of incomplete pages
37 Migration Tool
See Migration Tool
$FEATURE["tagtypemigration"] = true;
38 Multichanneling
See Multichannelling
39 Multichannelling Content.Repositories
$FEATURE["multichannelling_contentrepository"] = true;
See Multichannelling Content.Repositories for more information.
40 Multithreaded Publishing
$FEATURE["multithreaded_publishing"] = true; $PUBLISH_LOAD_BALANCING["threadlimit"] = 2;
41 Manage Link URLs
$FEATURE["managelinkurl"] = true;
Internal links to pages or files that are not online anymore are replaced with “#”, thus disabling the link.
$FEATURE["managelinkurl_onlyforpublish"] = false;
Whether to manage link URLs only when publishing, not for editing.
42 No Gravatar
$FEATURE["no_gravatar"] = true;
When enabled this feature will disable the gravatar images which are displayed in the right corner of the Gentics Content.Node User Interface.
43 Nodecopy
$FEATURE["nodecopy"] = true; $FEATURE["nodecopy_files"] = true;
nodecopy will allow you to copy whole Nodes. nodecopy_files will also give you an option to duplicate the files – otherwise pages etc. would just reference files and images from the original nodes.
44 Object Properties for Page Assistant
$FEATURE["objprop_page_edit_assistant"] = true;
Will display a shortcut to object properties in the assistant when editing or previewing a page.
45 Omit Writing to the Publish Table
$FEATURE["omit_publish_table"] = true;
By activating this feature, pages in nodes that do not publish into the filesystem (only into a contentrepository) will not be written into the publish table in the backend. This reduces the size of the backend database and increases publish performance.
When this feature is activated and nodes that were not published into the filesystem are reconfigured to publish into the filesystem, all pages in that node need to be republished using the maintenance dialog.
46 Page Cleanup
$FEATURE["page_cleanup"] = true;
Allows you to find and remove unused contenttags from the page list.
To clean up a page you must select the tags which you want to check from the “Tag list” in the Page menu. Then you select the action “Cleanup tags”. In the next step you will be presented a list of tags that are unused in the current page. After this you can choose which tags you want to delete.
Use with care: if contenttags are not used within the current page, but are only used from other pages or any other part of your implementation that is not invoked when rendering the page, the feature will propose them for deletion.
47 Page Usage
$FEATURE["pageusage"] = true;
Displays an extra column in the page list, that shows how often the page is referenced by other pages. Can have performance implications.
$FEATURE["pageusage_variants"] = true;
Will include page variants in the page usage view.
48 Pubqueue Email
$FEATURE["pubqueue_email"] = true;
If set to true, will display the email addresses of users together with the editor name in the publish queue.
49 Publish Folder Startpage
$FEATURE["publish_folder_startpage"] = true;
An additional checkbox will be shown in the node feature view which allows the activation of an additional instant publishing feature. When enabled the folder startpage of the published page will additionally be published when an instant publishing process is invoked.
50 Publish Cache
$FEATURE["publish_cache"] = true;
If set to true, the publish process will use an additional cache to improve the performance for rendering pages.
See Publish Cache
51 Reusing inherited page source
$FEATURE["publish_inherited_source"] = true;
If set to true, the publish process will first check, whether the rendered page source of a master page can be reused when rendering the inherited page in a channel. The master page source can safely be reused, if no dependency of the page (i.e. no other object, that was used to render the page source) is different (localized) between the master and channel. Using this feature might improve the publish performance, if checking the dependencies is faster than actually rendering the page.
The feature requires that the published master page source is written into the publish table of the backend db. If the feature omit_publish_table is used, this might not always be the case. If the master page source is not written into the publish table, the inherited page is always re-rendered for the channel.
52 Quickjump
$FEATURE["quickjump"] = true;
Provides a cross-node search box with autocompletion, that allows you to directly search for and jump to pages. The searchbox can be found on the Gentics Content.Node startpage as well as by clicking on the magnifier icon in the tree.
53 Redirect Check Referer
$FEATURE["redirect_check_referer"] = true;
Requests to /CNPortletapp/latest/alohaeditor... will check the Referer of the request to determine the host and protocol of the redirect request.
54 Resizable Itemlist Columns
$FEATURE['resizable_itemlist_columns'] = true;
When activated, a drag-handle will be displayed on the right-hand side of column headers. The drag-handle will only be displayed if the column width exceeds the width of the column header by a certain amount.
55 Resumable Publish Process
$FEATURE['resumable_publish_process'] = true;
See Resumable Publish Process for details.
56 Rest API – JSON output indentation
$FEATURE["restapi_json_indentation"] = true;
Enable/Disable output indentation for JSON responses from the Rest API.
57 Roles
$FEATURE["roles"] = true;
Enables you to use roles for language-specific permissions.
58 Sanitize names
Replaces characters in filenames and headerid names (Aloha Plugin) with a predefined set of characters replacement.
See Sanitize names
59 Search Page Contents
$FEATURE['search_contents'] = true;
Allows extended search in the page list to also search page contents.
60 Secure session cookies
$FEATURE['secure_cookie'] = true;
This sets the “Secure” flag in the session cookie. This may only be enabled if all access to the backend and REST-API is done via HTTPS only.
61 Suspend Scheduler
$FEATURE['suspend_scheduler'] = true;
Adds an icon to the scheduler assistant frame that allows you to suspend the scheduler for maintenance.
62 Symlink Files
$FEATURE['symlink_files'] = true;
Write symlinks when publishing to the disk rather than writing the whole binary information.
63 Tagmap Use Expression Parser
$FEATURE['set_folder_start_page'] = true;
Adds a menu option in the page list that will allow you to set a page as the current folder’s startpage by updating the object property object.startpage.
64 Tagmap Use Expression Parser
$FEATURE['tagmap_useexpressionparser'] = true;
To enable the Expression Parser for the column “mapname” of the Tagmap set this feature to true
.
65 Tagtype Categories
$FEATURE["construct_categories"] = true;
See Tagtype Categories feature
66 Tagtype Copy
$FEATURE["tagtype_copy"] = true;
Enabling this feature will allow you to copy Tagtypes from the list view. Copies will be named “Copy [n] of [Tagtype]”.
67 Tagfill Light
// reduces the tagfill dialog size to make it fit // into the lightbox without scrollbars $FEATURE["tagfill_light"]=true;
68 Template Copy
$FEATURE["template_copy"] = true;
Allows copying templates if activated.
69 User logout action
$FEATURE["logout_page"] = 'http://sample.url';
If the feature is set to an URL, the user will be redirected to this URL after the logout.
$FEATURE["logout_page"] = true;
If this feature is set to true, the user will be shown an empty page with a message stating that the logout was successful.
70 UTF8
$FEATURE["UTF8"] = true;
Enables nodes to use UTF8. This feature must be activated.
71 Validation
See Validation
72 Version Diff
$FEATURE["versiondiff"] = true;
Allows you to see a diff between different versions of a page.
73 View Perms
$FEATURE["view_perms"] = true;
Adds an extra entry to the tree that is intended for chief editors to enable them to inspect the permission settings for each group he is able to see. However, permissions can not be changed from this dialog.
74 Wastebin
$FEATURE["wastebin"] = true;
Enables the wastebin functionality.
75 Wiki Edit Mode
See Wiki Edit Mode
76 Win halt
$FEATURE["win_halt"] = true;
Whether to enable or disable the Gentics Content.Node lottery game for users that is displayed when a system error occurred. Note that the lottery game will directly load a webpage from the Gentics website in the users browser in an iframe.