Article Items
Articles can be used for just about any global data. They can be referenced via an RSS feed using Article Channels or referenced individually. Individual public article URLs can be found by viewing the page properties. The Body attribute may contain Scripting tags. If the article is referenced via the properties URL all scripting tags are replaced with their default values. Lower level consoles provide custom URLs to execute local substitutions.
This module was intended to be the catch all for generic article data within [cp:privateLabeling default='Centralpoint' key='ProductTitle' /]. Articles can be consumed by any console or web site, even those not affiliated with [cp:privateLabeling default='Centralpoint' key='ProductTitle' /]. The data is also provided as a remote procedure call via the Help web service. This web service takes the Article Id attribute from the properties section and returns an XML version of the document that can use to 'personalize' the content before displaying it to the end user. One of the primary uses of this feature is for each site to make custom Scripting substitutions.