CMS Feature Descriptions 

visionLive offers comprehensive functionality to enable the management of local government websites 

Site Administration

Accessibility
Receive accessibility and WCAG 2.0 tips to help create and maintain the compliance of your content.

Application Programming Interface (API)
Use our API to fetch information for the Calendar and GovTrack service request manager.

Analytics
Track, analyze and interpret how your community is using your site with Google Analytics. 
 
Approval Cycle (Workflows)
Determine who is able to publish and approve changes to your website with our powerful and flexible workflow engine. Define multi-step workflows for distributed content creation and approval throughout your organization. 

Auto-Archiving (available Q1 2017)
Automatically archives a version of content whenever a CMS user clicks to Save their content (using Save, Save and Approve, or Save and Publish buttons). CMS users may restore previous versions through the archive history on the selected content. There is no limit as to the number of versions archived in the CMS. 

Internal Note: This option is available for Pages, Calendar, News, RFP Posts, Job Posts, FAQ, Business Directory, Service Directory, and Staff Directory 

Broken Link Reporting
Review and correct broken links identified and submitted by site users. 

Content Scheduling
Schedule content to publish or expire on any date automatically. Additionally, schedule periodic review dates for content.

Dashboard
Customize your own administrative dashboard. Select and move components to match the way you work. 

Document Central
Upload documents to a central repository that can be accessed as you edit content across the CMS, eliminating duplicate effort and ensuring consistency. 

Extranet
Create password-protected content for specific groups, such as elected officials, employees, etc. 

Friendly URL Manager
Provide a friendly and easy-to-read URL that automatically redirects to any page on your website.

Image Library
Upload images to a central repository that can be accessed as you edit content across the CMS, eliminating duplicate effort and ensuring consistency. Also perform basic edits on uploaded images. 

Import/Export
Import and export data from the CMS via XML or CSV format. Available in most components such as Calendar, eNotifications, News, FAQs, RFP Posts and Staff Directory.

In-App Messaging
Receive notifications and support from Vision directly in the CMS. Gain quick access to contextual user guides, collaborate on product ideas, learn about upcoming webinars and get improved customer support. 

In-Page Editing
Edit pages directly on your site while in Site Preview mode.

Navigation Management
Add, edit or update site navigation with the drag-and-drop menu tree structure.

Mega Menu
Provide robust navigation on your site, with the option to include news, calendar or other highlighted information in the menu.

Mobile Editor (visionMobile Designer)
Move, hide and reorder content to optimize how it displays for mobile users.

Page Template Builder
Create and configure customized interior page layouts that can be used throughout the website. Drag and drop desired content and widgets to create a new layout. Set permissions to limit which page templates can be used by content editors. 
 
Spell Checker
Check your content for proper spelling before it is published with the built-in spell checker. 

WYSIWYG Page Editor
Update content on your site by creating or editing any page using our easy-to-use WYSIWYG content editor.

User Experience & Interactivity

Business Directory
Showcase businesses in your community including name, description, location, contact information, links and a picture or logo for each listing.

Calendar
Create calendars for different departments and categories and view by day, week, month or agenda view. Get a PDF download of any calendar view. Color code events by category, provide additional context with images, and allow registration for selected events. Includes integrated social media publishing. 

Emergency Alert Banner
Create customized emergency or other information banners that show at the top of each webpage.

Emergency Homepage
Publish a pre-created alternative homepage that can be swapped with your usual homepage during emergencies or special events, like elections. 

eNotification
Provide a way for visitors to sign up to get email alerts on topics of their choosing, with options to bundle updates into a daily, weekly or monthly digest. 

Facilities Directory
Display maps and listings of local facilities, construction zones, art walks or any location-based point of interest. Include online reservations to encourage use of public facilities for events.

Forms and Surveys
Create custom forms and surveys to move more of your services online. Manage responses through the CMS and export for additional reporting. 

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
Create a list of common questions and answers that can be filtered by category or department. Integrates with Service Request Management so visitors can find answers on their own before contacting you.

Job Posts and Application Manager
Create, post, and manage job descriptions and custom job applications all in one place, directly from your website. 

News
Publish news stories, press releases, features, and other content on your website. Share news easily through integrated social media publishing.

Photo Gallery
Display large numbers of images from community events and other activities. Site visitors can click through each image or choose to view them as a slideshow. 

Search (visionSearch)
Make it easy for site visitors to find what they’re looking for with a robust customizable search, featuring sorting, filtering and advanced search features. Promote pages to top of search results, add search synonyms to tailor search results, define the scope of the search index. 

Service Directory
Summarize the key services and contact information for your organization. The directory can be grouped by category or department.

Online Payments
Allow users to make payments online. Can be added to online forms, facility reservations and event registrations.

Request for Proposal (RFP) Posts
Publish RFPs online. Allow vendors to sign up to receive email notifications of new opportunities.

Streaming Video
Share streaming video directly on your site using our 3rd party integration. 

Service Request Management 
(govTrack Citizen Request Management)
Allow users to report and receive status updates on code violations and service requests. Assign submitted requests to specific staff, set rules for resolution timeframe and create reports to track staff response times and performance. 

Social Media Display
Display feeds from your Facebook and Twitter accounts on your website to increase the visibility of your social media channels. 

Translation
Make your website available in other languages using the integrated Google Translate web plugin.

Engagement

eNotification
Provide a way for visitors to sign up to get email alerts on topics of their choosing, with options to bundle updates into a daily, weekly or monthly digest. 

Online Polls
Post simple, one question polls to your website to get feedback from and promote engagement with your community. 

Resident Dashboard
Allow visitors to create an account and manage eNotification subscriptions, service requests and other preferences on your site.

RSS Feeds
Provide a way for visitors to stay up to date on all content updates related to specific topics. Create custom, topic-related RSS feeds aggregating relevant events, news, pages and other content into a single feed. 

Social Media Management (visionSocial)
Manage and schedule social media posts while creating news, calendar and other content to increase your productivity. Customize messages to increase engagement on each social channel and plan multiple posts across multiple channels to build campaigns.

Active Directory Federation Services 

With the April 2017 update, we will now support Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS) as a way to provide Single Sign On access and autologin for Members-Only Subsites. This option restricts access to Active Directory (AD) users synced to CMS6 Members database.

This change will allow a client's AD users who are also identified as CMS6 Members to access the subsite/intranet without logging in twice. Commerce, CO is the first example of using a member-only subsite as an intranet with this feature. 

Note for On Prem Clients

Please note that the following features are not available to "On Prem" clients:

1. visionPulse

2. Flexible Component

3. visionSearch (except for intranets)