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News Solution

$129900 (Per WFE)

FireArrow News Solution offers an easy-to-use and full-featured news management solution to manage and display news articles in SharePoint sites. It provides multiple news page templates with flexible layouts and styles, back-end library and content types to manage news articles, which enables editors to create and edit news contents with associated meta-data information in SharePoint easily. It also integrates with rating and review features to allow users to rate and comment on the news. Even better, it provides RSS feed features for users to quickly view top rated news, most recent news, etc.

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Create and edit news page contents and properties through customized News Page content type
Manage news pages through customized News Library list
Provide four different news page templates
Integration of rating and review features with news article pages. Features highlight as below:

» Allow users to rate based on 1-to-5 rating scale or like/dislike, and write reviews on news pages
» Automatically calculate and display average rating
» Display rating summary information: overall rating, # of total ratings, # of total reviews and rating distribution chart
» Display all ratings and review comments
» Sort and filter review comments
» Pagination to browse through review comments
» Reply to Comments” feature
» Like/Dislike” votes feature for reviews and replies
» Different styles for display overall rating
» Options to display overall rating and total # of comments along with page contents

Support adding social network links to news pages
Option to set news expiration date
Support adding other web parts to news pages
Offer News RSS feeds: Top Rated News, Most Rated News, Most Recent News and Most Commented News
Support integration into “Pages” list in 2007 MOSS and 2010 SP environment where publishing feature is enabled
Support SharePoint 2007 & 2010

System Requirements

Operating System:

Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2003 R2 and 2008

Server:

SharePoint Services v3 (WSS), SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS), SharePoint Foundation 2010 , or SharePoint Server 2010

.Net Framework:

Microsoft .NET Framework 3.0 or Microsoft .NET Framework version 3.5 SP1

Browser:

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6,7,8, Firefox 3.0, Safari 4.0 and Chrome

Release Notes

02/06/2013Release 1.1.36.25, added rating and review web part to 8 page layouts.

12/31/2012Release 1.1.15.10, upgraded to Rating 2.5.16.24.

04/23/2012Release 1.1.8.28, fixed a permission bug and upgrade to Rating 2.4.15.24.

11/09/2011Release 1.1.3.7, upgrade to use Rating 2.3.8.12.

02/02/2011Release 1.0.0.0, initial release.

Installation Guide: PDF Version HTML Version
Activation Guide: PDF Version HTML Version
User Guide: PDF Version

Please feel free to contact us to let us know your thought about our software and any additional features you would like us to offer.

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