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The Entando Components project provides specific software elements called Components.

entando-components can add functionality to the Entando engine, admin-console and portal-ui or extend only the functionality of the portal-ui.

The Entando Components v4.3 are:

  • Plugins are components which extend functionality of engine, admin-console, and portal-ui core components.

  • UI Bundles are components which contain the application part and a view service. They are web solutions which extend functionality of portal-ui core component and/or views' functionality of the other Entando components.

The previous version of the Entando (v4.2) included the Apps in addition of the Plugins and Bundles.

The Open Source components are available under a MIT license.

Plugins, and Bundles components, right now available, are listed in the following Tables.

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Plugins

Name Description
Action Logger Expands the existing log system to keep track of CMS activities
Address Book Allows users to access a personal detailed contact list
Avatar Allows registered users to manage pictures associated to their profile
Blog Blogging management
Calendar Shares activities, events, and news on the web application
CAS Client provides authentication against an external CAS authentication server
CMS Tag Cloud Groups content by tag and category
Collaboration Creates a dedicated area where users may post and vote ideas
Content Feedback Allows users to provide their feedback
Content Versioning Manages the versioning of web applications content, storing the history of performed operations
Content Scheduler Manages the schedule of the content's publishing
Content Workflow Extends the basic CMS workflow and allows customizable workflows for content categories
Faceted Navigation Allows the integration of multidimensional classification within Entando based web application
Georeferenced Content Allows geotag content according to the coordinates attribute
LDAP Connector Allows centralized authentication and user group management
Mail Senders Provides the basis for Registration Forms and Newsletter services, and all plugins that require sending email, eg, User Registration forms, Web Forms, Newsletters, etc.
RSS Shows application content in RSS format
RSS Aggregator Shows application contents in RSS format and allow importing and publishing content from other web applications in RSS format
Survey Allows users to post and manage questionnaires and surveys
Token API Invokes protected APIs through individual tokens
User Registration Provides login and access to the user's profile (complete with avatar and personal information) and additional services
Web Dynamic Forms Enables the deployment and management of dynamic web forms with custom fields
Widget Utils Provides a specialized iFrame widget that allows posting of any remote html content, and redisplay of any deployed widget in any web application pages

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Bundles

Name Description
Content-Types Let you quickly install Content Types and everything else closely related to them
Widgets They are the best way to reuse a Widget in an infinite number of applications
Themes They include the JSP and database part of a Page Model, plus any needed CSS and Label
Misc They provide an easy way of including additional frameworks or technologies to the Front-end part of an Entando based web application and/or website
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