Glossary

Calendars provide an area within eCrowds to communicate important events, dates, and information with your end-users in a structured format, such as a list or month.

The Connectors portion of the Components area is a place for all the tools you use to bring added wisdom and cohesion to your eCrowds platform. Here is where you would tie Google Analytics to your site or connect your eCrowds instance with Salesforce.com. With eCrowds, if you choose not to integrate certain 3rd party apps, you don't have to worry about excess interface clutter. For example, if you choose to tie in Google Analytics to your eCrowds platform, but not Salesfroce, no sign of a Salesforce Connector will appear in your instance. Currently, the eCrowds Connectors that come out of the box include integration with: Google Analytics, Twitter, Prospect Insight, and Salesforce.com.

Content Types are the fundamental elements of eCrowds; at its core, each element within the system must have a content type. Content types bring together a form and template; each Content Type in the system must have one of each.

Discussions provide an area within eCrowds for you or your users to post announcements and other topics in order to elicit feedback from other users and open the floor for discussion.

Fields are objects of data in their simplest form. Data fields such as text fields, radio buttons, start dates, titles, and word processors (just to name a few), are utilized within forms, which are made up by a collection of fields. Fields can be created once and used across forms and multiple sites.

Files work the same way in eCrowds as they do with many systems you're familiar with; however, files utilized by your eCrowds platform are stored remotely. Files include items like CSS, images and graphics, and any other asset outside of the system you upload into eCrowds.

Formats allow menus and queries to be customized. They are processed as Liquid Markup, allowing for nearly limitless customization.

Forms are the visual aggregation of multiple fields used for data entry and processing. The eCrowds platform allows for completely customizable forms that can be created, used, copied, and edited.

Forums in eCrowds are designed to provide a platform for sharing user generated content and holding user discussions. The eCrowds platform allows you to create one overarching community forum with numerous sub-forums, or to create as many individual and/or top-level forums as you see fit. Additionally, search functionality provided by eCrowds enables both you and your community-users to search forum posts and discussions for the content they're looking for.

System Administrators and power users using the eCrowds system have complete flexibility to customize groups and users within them.

An idea exchange is a social media feature that provides a great way for organizational web communities to easily share ideas, have them rated, voted on, and commented on, get feedback from others, and gain momentum through the system.

Menus provide an easy way to create navigation links dynamically. Menus can be created based on taxonomy, users, content type, module, or even a custom list of pages. Since menus are so diverse, they can easily be used for many tasks on a web site.

Queries are similar to menus in the sense that they both produce a list of dynamically created items. Queries, however, are used to select criteria to query the database on when constructing searches for your web site.

Redirects allow for the automatic maintenance/updating of old and outdated links. For example, let's say you have a end-user flash demo video on an old site or page and the URL needs to be updated to reflect it's current location.

Roles allow eCrowds power users and/or administrators to customize the access rights and permissions of site users. Administrators can create as many role types as needed to accommodate the variety of users utilizing the system.

The eCrowds platform comes with default search capabilities out of the box. Adding search functionality to your site is easy.

Security Policies are the combination of objects and access rights. They are individual items that can be applied to any piece of the system - content types, pages, comments, users, etc.

Taxonomies are the point and click way to set up your site's structural hierarchy or architecture. After specifying which site the taxonomies are to apply to, creating a menu and/or folder taxonomy is as simple as clicking your mouse to add and remove the

Templates are web pages, which are incomplete because they have no content. They can be imported from an existing web page or created from scratch. Different parts of the template, called regions, can be filled with eCrowds assets such as menus or blocks.

Users are individuals registered to use your eCrowds platform. The user interface allows for administrators to specify user email addresses, first and last name, and usernames.