Press Requirements

I. Introduction

This document outlines the requirements for the ArsDigita Press application.

II. Vision Statement

The Press application provides a way for web sites to showcase articles in which the site has been featured. This application will provide companies with a way to archive old news and present recent accomplishments. Users coming to the site who are unfamiliar with the company are thus given an opportunity to see what the public media has to say about the company while the company is given the opportunity to selectively filter which press coverage is presented to the user.

III. System/Application Overview

This application is comprised of one main component: the press table. This table organizes and stores all of the news articles and references. The system provides a simple templating system so that press items can be formatted based on a variety of source material, e.g. newspaper articles, journal publications, on-line publications, or even company press releases.

IV. Use-cases and User-scenarios

Press application users will largely fall into one of two user groups: press receipients and press administrators.

Press receipients will include brokers researching the relative value of the company for their clients, consumers interested in learning more about a company before making a purchasing decision, suppliers investigating the company's perceived order processing efficiency, and so on. These people will have access not only to current media coverage of the company's activities but also to a searchable archive of such articles to better help them locate individual articles of interest or show a more comprehensive picture of the company's public side.

Press administrators, on the other hand, are the ones who will be adding the articles to the site, choosing which ones most merit display, deciding how many press items should appear on the company site's homepage, what the scope of the article's application should be, et cetera. The press application supports group scoping which enables administrators of inidividual groups to add press events for their group only. They may also add public articles which may be seen by everyone.

V. Related Links

Documentation

Other Applications

VI.A. Requirements: The Data Model

10.10 User Interaction
10.10.10 Clickthrough tracking.
10.10.20 Display certain number of articles per page.
10.10.30 Allow users to click on links to the articles.
10.10.40 Display brief summary about the article.
10.10.50 Access to archive of old articles.
10.20 Site Wide Administration (/admin/press)
10.20.10 Add articles
10.20.20 Edit articles
10.20.30 Delete articles
10.20.40 Archive articles
10.20.50 Templating
10.30 Maintainer Administration (/press/admin)
10.30.10 Add articles
10.30.20 Edit articles
10.30.30 Delete articles
10.40 Other
10.40.10 Ability to archive news after a set period of time.
10.40.20 Allow administrator to set an article to display for an indefinite period of time.
10.40.30 Specify whether article may be viewed only by a particular group or everyone.

VII. Revision History

Document Revision #	Action Taken, Notes	When?	By Whom?
0.1	Created	2000-10-09	Chiao Cheng
0.2	Modified	2000-10-10	Joshua Finkler
0.3	Reviewed for accuracy	2000-10-11	Ron Henderson