NetGen makes it possible for companies to successfully develop, manage, and deploy content across global markets. This gives administrators unique capabilities allowing them to meet the critical requirements of international and multilingual enterprises. Contexts are the Market/Language in which content has been created. On the public side, this gives administrators the ability to control what information is displayed to a visitor of their websites while maintaining domain control. For your users, they will only have access to content specific to their market and language within the NetGen application. When administrators create content, i.e., uploading an image or creating a web page, it is automatically created in the context: Worldwide/Default. The market is Worldwide, the language is Default. Default is the language the group account is set to. In most cases, the Default language is English.
Since all content created by administrators defaults to Worldwide/Default, and if your group default language is English, only users with their language set to English, will be able to view content in the NetGen system.
Within the NetGen application users have access to content that has been created in their market and language and shared with their permission group. NetGen uses a algorithm when rendering content called The Tree. The Tree determines the context of the content given to a user within the application, and what content is viewed when going to a public webpage.
For example, let's say the group account is based in the United States and has users in the United States, Canada and Mexico, using English as the primary language. The Group account would be set to English, as the default language. When content is created by administrators, content will be created in Worldwide/Default. Since Default is English, users in the US, Canada, and Mexico that have their language set to English will view content that has been shared with their permission group. Sharing allows them access to the content. Market/Language determines what content will display. If the content is the same language across all markets, administrators only need to create the content in Worldwide Default. However, if the content to be displayed varies within a Market, like for example Mexico, a new Market/Language would be created that has content specific to, in this case, Mexico.
There are 9 places within the NetGen application where contexts can be used to support your network. Creating contexts for these pieces will allow content specific to a market and language to be viewed on your exterior web pages, as well as to users within the application.
The 9 elements in NetGen that are context based are:
- Emails
- Lead Signup Forms
- Web Pages
- Layouts
- Images
- Documents
- Media
- Predefined Regions
- Print Products