Calendar and Event Features

• Month, week, day, and list views are available.  Month and year are available to switch in dropdowns.
• Ability to filter to show any data in the PackFlash system, not just events.  Events will represent the span of the event, while any other data will show on the date it was published.
• Calendar theme allows for significantly changing the look and feel of the calendar.
• Tooltip (popup) is template and token driven.  Specify exactly what is needed in the popup.  
• Popup has options for adding the event to Google and Outlook calendars.
• Event details are template and token driven.  Organize the details however the design specifies.
• Add a location for the event on the fly.  Give the location a mapping URL and use within the location details and the events detail.
• Events can have a start & end time, start and end registration time, and start and end publication time.
• Events can have their own email, rather than it tied to the location or a person (which are all possible).

Displaying The Details

• Ability to add additional module (Related Content) to display various related content on the detail page
• Configure the module to use "Share This" functionality
• Email a friend functionality
• Print page functionality
• Ability to comment on items at administrator's choosing (requires Comments & Ratings module)
• Template driven system that uses tokens.  Allows for full configuration of the detail page to suit the needs of the site.
• Default detail item can be based on data rules allowing for the ability to show details for the most recent blog post within a specific category when visiting the category landing page, for instance.
• Default detail item can be set to show the "start position" (ordinal number).  This allows for "stacked" items with different ordinal positions to be shown on the same page.
• Ability to use the global rule for the location of search results for tags or over-ride this setting at the module.
• Ability to determine the rule for what happens when information is not found for an item.  This feature mainly applies to multi-lingual content, but could be used for additional purposes.

Flexible and Powerful List System - Many ways show off content and keep visitors interested

• Lists can apply filters by content type, category, group, and people 
• Items within the list can be from any PackFlash Module - doesn't have to be only the Gallery Module. It is capable of limiting to only the Gallery module, however. 
• Ability to select specific items to display in any particular list
• Ability to select the number of item to display in a list
• Ability to display the order (ascending/descending) based on the start date, the title (alphabetical), most viewed, most emailed, or most commented on
• Ability to choose the template for the list (multiple list templates provided)
• Enable/Disable paging for the list. Paging can be AJAX or page refresh.
• Ability to determine the page where galleries will be displayed for any particular list. If not selected, the global control will be used as a default.
• Ability to select to re-size images for the list view
• Ability to select how the re-sizing will work (re-size by keeping the aspect ratio OR re-size and crop)
• Ability to select the width and height of the thumbnail used within the list view.
• Ability to choose whether additional items for this list should be provided with a link, where the list for the full item list would be located within your site, and what the name of the link should be (for example, "more gallleries" or "go to complete list", etc.)
• Ability to determine where the RSS feed for the list should reside within your website
• Ability to add additional modules to display various related content on the list page such as a the most recent video for a category (if the Video Module is activated)

Easily Find, Add, or Edit Content Items

• Centralized dashboard allows content items, categorization, groups, templates, global settings, etc. to be managed in one place.
• Find items with admin search by keyword, date range...filter by category, content type, group, or people  
• Use the edit "pencil" to go directly to editing any item from the list.  Only users that are assigned to the item or have created the item will be able to edit the item.
• Content items can be entered in one page if desired and published with a start date or can be associated with a group and published when the group is published.
• Items can be re-assigned to other users with instructions on what to do next by using the simple, but powerful workflow
• Create a summary to be used as a teaser for unauthorized users to entice website visitors to register/login in order to see the full content details.  The "teaser" is template driven by using tokens allowing for significant cusomization and flexibility.  
• Ability to have the main content of the item be Text/HTML, a file (PDF, for example), a page on your site, an external url to another website, or Video/Audio.  The options are specific the module being used.  
• Ability to preview the item at any time to see what it will look like on the default page before publishing  

Add and Assign People 

• Ability to add people "on-the-fly" rather than taking away from the item being managed.
• Add and assign multiple people as necessary from the database.   
• Create custom details for people  
• Add custom "bylines" for non-standard labels and attribution for people
• Add custom labels to people as necessary (photographer, illustrator, registrar, host, etc.)

Associate Any Content or File to Your Items

• Adding documents, files, video, mp3's "on the fly" to an item means that it can be used within the item with the Related Content Module, a related content list (in the List Module), or embedded within the text of an item using an Insert within the system.  
• Items can be related to each other using a in-line search then displayed using the Related Content Module, a related content list (in the List Module), or embedded within an item using an Insert.  
• Content items can have embedded inserts within them for content that is more closely tied to the material in the item. Free form text (such as a quote), images, articles, video, or auxiliary content can all be inserted anywhere within the item via an HTML tag. Each one of these inserts can be styled with CSS classes (5 styles included).
• Items can have a one-way (associate one article to another and the other article is not associated to it), two-way (associate one article to another and they are both related to each other), or create an ad-hoc group of associations (all associated articles are related to each other without having to specifically associate them)  

Image Display and Management

• Add an unlimited number of images to display with your content
• Images will display in a "rotator" that will cycle through all the images
• Arrows at both ends of the image thumbnails allow the user to manually rotate through the images
• Two different included templates allow you to choose the size of the image display
• Optionally add captions to each image to display at the bottom of each image on the rotation
• Larger images can have a link to display the larger image if chosen
• The image at the top of the list will be used as the image thumbnails for any list

Share Your Content with Others

• Configure the module to use "Share This" functionality
• Email a friend functionality
• Print the article functionality
• Allow subscription to any category (or all categories) with RSS feeds and RSS
• Ability to determine where the details of the RSS feed live and the maximum number of articles to display

Extensive Use of Templates

• Ability to choose a default item list template and change the template when adding a list to a page (6 included with module)
• Ability to specify a "teaser" template for authorized user roles and separate template for unauthorized roles. This allows you to provide a way to incent users to register on your site to see all the content.
• Ability to specify a template for a main (or lead) item separate from the rest of the items
• Ability to specify a template for the list items for a group separate from the rest of the items
• Ability to specify a featured item template for an group separate from the rest of the items

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Rules Built Into Module

• Title, description, and keywords are used as the defaults for the meta title, description, and keywords for SEO purposes
• Ability to modify each item's title, description, and keywords for search independent of the article's SEO meta title, description, and keywords (they can be independent if you choose them to be)
• Item title uses the H1 tag for search engine prominence on the product detail page

Comments (requires installation of the Comments & Rating Module)

• Turn on and off the ability for users to make comments
• Turn on and off the ability for users to make comments anonymously
• Turn on and off the whether comments require administrator approval
• Turn on and off notification of new comments (with email address provided)
• Comments can be approved or unapproved at any time

Group (Issue) Management

• Articles can be grouped within an issue and be published all at the same time by publishing the issue.
• Issues can have a publish date, title, description, and image (usually cover image).
• Issues can be set as the current issue.
• Issues can have an article detail page separate from how the rest of the publishing module works allowing for an issue to look more self-contained
• Issue list module can display all issues with the cover stories in a grid structure that allows someone to choose the appropriate issue and go to the Table of Contents for that issue
• Issue can be displayed as a Table of Contents module with all articles within the issue dispayed and the ability to jump to other issues through the use of a dropdown menu. In the Table of Contents, the cover story will show first with the featured articles next, then all other articles.
• Icons in Group Management tell what groups are approved, with groups are not approved, and which group is the current group/issue  

Flexible Workflow Rules

• Login to be able to see your queue with any actions that need to be taken.
• Email notifications (tied to role) for assignments
• Editors will only be able to edit items that are assigned to them or that they created.  Publishers will be able to search for and edit everything.
• Keeps track of approval statuses, dates, and specific requestor action
• Items marked as priority will be tagged appropriately.
• Administrators with the correct rights will be able to see articles awaiting publication.
• Administrators will have the capability of seeing global staff workload.

Allow Users to Search All of the Database or only Portions of the Database

• By default, search only searches titles and keywords for speed  
• Ability to also have search crawl through sub-title, description, and detail text  
• Ability to choose the search display template (as a list)  
• Ability to exclude any category or group from search results (perfect for displaying internal items but not allowing them to get mixed with external content)  
• Ability to specify where the item detail page is for any search result (great for allowing someone to read multiple items in a search results and easily get back to the search results page)  
• Ability to track common search keywords and phrases to allow an administrator to modify content appropriately