Purepage Server 4.0
Common Questions and Answers
Q. What is Purepage Server?
Purepage Server publishes your companies’ documents (procedure and policy manuals, forms, reports, legal documents,
spreadsheets etc.) onto your Intranet and makes them instantly available to everyone with a web browser. Content is added
or updated by departments and automatically published by Purepage Server, as it becomes available – keeping content up to
date.
Purepage Server is a first of its kind, designed with simplicity in mind for both administrators and end users. Deployment is
straightforward and accomplished in under a day. End users work in familiar desktop applications and save documents to
have them published, eliminating the need for training. Purepage Server organizes the published content in a powerful, yet
easy-to-use, browser-based portal for users to access, search, modify and update content.
Q. How long does it take to deploy Purepage Server?
Typically, Purepage Server can be deployed in a number of hours - this includes having users starting to contribute content.
Maintenance is minimal and is usually kept to less than 10 hours per month for larger organizations (less for smaller
organizations or departments).
Q. Do Administrators of users require much training to use Purepage Server?
No, Administrators with a moderate technical skill level should require no training at all to deploy and maintain Purepage
Server when using the Purepage Server User Guide included with the software. Users find using navigating published Sites
and contributing content as simply as using any other web site due to the web browser based document portal generated by
Purepage Server for your published Sites.
Q. Is the trial version of Purepage Server crippled or limited in any way?
The trial version of Purepage Server is completely functional and functions for a full 30 days after the first use - it is limited in
no way. Trial extension keys may be obtained from ^sales@purepage.com.
Q. Can Purepage Server integrate with our existing document/content management systems?
Yes - administrators can completely control how and when content is published and how the document portal is built.
Additionally, scripting allows administrators to integrate published and staged content into their existing workflow or
document/content management repositories.
Q. Can Purepage Server integrate with our Workflow system?
Yes - administrators can completely control when content is published and what steps are involved in the publishing of
content. For example, you may wish content to be “held” pending approval. Purepage Server’s scripting easily allows for this
and other steps.
Q. Can Purepage Server integrate with out Intranet or Website easily?
Yes - linking the published content is as easy as linking to the published Sites document portal home page from your existing
Intranet or Website. The published Sites can easily be served to users through your existing web servers. Additionally, the
“branding” of the document portal and published content allows the Sites to integrate closely with the look and feel or your
Intranet or web sites.
Q. How easy is it to create Sites?
Creating a new Intranet Site using Purepage Server is easy and can be accomplished in a number of minutes. Simply, specify
the name, source folder and target folder. Publishing is simple with the click of a button or alternatively you can specify
scheduled publishing of Sites. After a Site is published, users can start contributing content directly to the Site.
Q. How easy if it for users to contribute content?
Purepage Server relies on the familiar user interface of an web browser for all user interaction including accessing, searching
and contributing document content. Users can contribute content in a number of ways:
Internet Explorer users can simply click the “submit” link and contribute content directly to the current location
within the Site.
FTP submittal is fully supported by using any standard FTP server
File system submittal is supported including drag and drop - users simply drop a file in a folder to have it published
or updated.
Q. How are Sites published?
Purepage Server offers administrators a number of options when publishing Sites. Manual publishing is available at any time
at the click of a button while scheduled publishing can be set on a per-Site basis allowing for publishing at off-peak times to
reduce network load. Importantly, Purepage offers administrators full control over the settings that control how the
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