Content Library

Inserts content from library of formatted content items.

$69 US Dollars per user licence, volume discounts available.

CDEV's Content Library product is an add-on to Microsoft Word. It provides an easy to use repository of formatted content. Content Library makes it is easy for users to find and insert content from the repository into their document. It is also easy for users to create and share content.

The content is held in a database and plenty of searchable metadata can be attributed to each content item. Being database driven means that searching is fast and powerful.

Its a great way of sharing and reusing content and its very easy to use.

The main user interface dialog looks as follows. This one shows three available repositories (or databases) Sample 1, Sample 2 and Personal. You can implement as many as you require. Then the main explorer view is the list of Categories which show as folders, and the list of items in each Category. Click on an item and all the details pertaining to that item are shown on the right along with a preview of the item

Content Library

Content Library will be in constant use by users and the main window can be reduced and integrated into the Word environment to show Content Library of the left and the document on the right so that users can work on their document while Content Library is visible.

Content Library

To add content:

Having created some good formatted content simply select it and run Content Library via the custom toolbar button.

Content Library recognises the selected text gets ready to save it to the database. Keywords and other details can be assigned to the text, such as Author, Dates, Description and so on. This information is stored item in the database. The item can be stored in a nominated database in a particular category and with a specified name.

Content Library supports numerous databases: Public shared (only updatable by superusers) and Personal read/write. All the databases available are listed as tabs on the left of the dialog.

To retrieve Content:

Full content searching is supported along with searching on keywords. This is full-function fast database searching.

To Insert Content:

Select or search for and select an item and a preview of that item is displayed in the preview box. Simply double-click to insert the content into the active document.

Content Library can be set as a side-bar that is always visible and then it is very quick and easy to insert content items into the active document.

To Create a new database:

Simply copy an existing one and delete/add the entries - it will automatically be picked up and displayed as a new Tab.

Prerequisites:

Although Content Library creates Access databases it does not need Access to be installed on a user machine. Content Library works on Word 2000 onwards.

Key benefits: