Cascade Administration
Learn how to administer Cascade CMS and keep it running at its best. Topics featured here include permissions, connectors, system settings, and more.
Administration Tools
These tools allow system administrators to send messages to active users, view log files, and configure logging (for troubleshooting purposes).
Logs and System Information
This area of the system allows system administrators to download log files and view other information regarding the application's environment (memory, JVM settings, O/S version, etc).
Announcements
Announcements allow administrators to create and display messages to users working in the CMS.
Logging Configuration
This section of the Administration area provides system administrators with the ability to configure additional logging for troubleshooting purposes.
Authentication
Cascade CMS can authenticate users natively, through an external LDAP server, or via custom authentication.
LDAP/Active Directory Authentication
LDAP/Active Directory integration allows you to import and sync Users from an LDAP server, programmatically assign those Users to Groups and Roles, and specify how those Users authenticate when logging into Cascade CMS.
Connectors and Integrations
Connectors and integrations allow you to utilize third-party applications and tools within Cascade CMS.
Database
This section contains general articles related to database maintenance along with vendor-specific steps for setting up the Cascade CMS database/schema.
Database Tools
These tools allow system administrators to optimize, repair, and export the CMS database.
Recycle Bin Checker
The Recycle Bin Checker is a system tool that repairs inconsistencies that may arise with assets in the Recycle Bin.
Path Repair Tool
The Path Repair Tool is a system tool that repairs incorrect paths that may arise with assets.
Database Export
The Database Export is a support tool that exports the entire Cascade CMS database to a file, so that Hannon Hill can replicate a client database locally without the client having to go through the trouble of performing a database backup or stopping the server.
Optimize Database
The Optimize Database tool removes and/or repairs various records within the database. It is NOT recommended to run this tool frequently.
Installation & Upgrades
This section provides information on installing and upgrading Cascade CMS for on-premise environments.
Running Cascade CMS as a Linux service
This article contains samples using systemd and init.d service files.
Permissions
Permissions in Cascade CMS consist of roles, which govern a user's abilities and access to sites or the administration area, and access rights, which allow users to view or edit assets.
Access Rights
Access Rights are the permissions that control which Users or Groups can view or change Assets. Each asset has Access Rights assigned.
Roles
A role is a set of a abilities that govern a user's access to a number of different areas in Cascade CMS.
Role Abilities
A breakdown of System and Site Role abilities.
Users
A user in Cascade CMS is any individual who uses the content management system. Users are defined by their Username, Role designations, and the Group(s) they belong to.
Groups
A group is made up of one or more users with common permissions.
Sites
Sites are containers for organizing all content and administrative assets and properties for a website in Cascade CMS.
Site Import and Export
Cascade CMS supports the transfer of content and administrative properties from one Cascade CMS environment to another by way of exporting and importing Sites.
System Configuration
This section contains a number of pages related to configuring the application server itself along with the firewall.
Administration Menus
The system menu is the focal point for administrator-oriented tasks in Cascade CMS. It's accessible by clicking the system menu button in the upper right-hand corner of the interface.
Audits
Audits allow administrators to see a summary of activities performed in Cascade CMS by a particular User, Group, or Role or on a particular asset.
External Link Checking Preferences
External Link Checking preferences allow administrators to configure system-wide external link checking behavior and functionality.
System Dictionary
The system dictionary is a centrally-managed collection of words that is used when performing spelling content checks or when using the spellcheck feature in the WYSIWYG.
System Preferences
System preferences allow administrators to configure system-wide properties such as email, link checking, and content settings.