What's New

IBM® Lotus® Web Content Management™ Version 6.1 and 6.1.5 enable organizations to rapidly build next generation websites with a number of key enhancements that can be used throughout the entire content lifecycle.

Enhanced business user experience — Realize greater efficiencies, streamlined business processes, and uptake by your content community:

• Simpler authoring forms
• Improved rich text editor
• Updated dialog boxes
• Reduced click streams for simple actions

Improved security model — Easily map application permissions to existing business structure:

• Permission inheritance
• New user roles
• Additional virtual users

Extended openness and flexibility for custom development — Allows developers to build custom applications on top of Lotus Web Content Management to meet business needs not available out of the box:

• Library manipulation APIs
• Syndication APIs
• Custom workflow actions
• Additional tasks through inline editing

• Updated and enhanced JSR 286 rendering portlet for a better inline content editing experience, including the ability to render content with links to other WCM content.

• Embedded Ephox EditLive! Rich Text Editor for seamlessly creating rich content using familiar Word processing tools, with little or no end-user training needed. Version 6.1.5 also eliminates the need for a separate installation of the Ephox software.

• Authoring of WCM content via WebDAV, including easier management of content and components via a drag and drop interface, and support for the creation and updating of presentation templates using an external tool like Adobe Dreamweaver®

• Support for existing investments in document management systems such as Lotus Quickr, IBM FileNet and IBM Content Manager, with out-of-the-box integration.

• Easy-to-use social software templates for wikis, blogs and comments, enabling end-users to further participate in the Web site experience.