Last Update: July, 2008

xParrot Features

This feature list applies to the latest release of xParrot.

Basic features

• Managing users and groups in browser
• Managing objects and folders in browser
• Permission handling based on roles
• Unicode support
• Storage of files of any type as objects (Documents, Images, PDF, any type of XML, ...)
• Uploading content with a browser (e.g. image upload from editor)

FTP Features

• Managing users and groups via FTP (XML files)
• Managing objects and folders via FTP
• Uploading / downloading content via FTP

Features of the included examples

• Integration of TinyMCE for editing content
• Integration of FOP for PDF output

Extensibility

• User defined views for sites, folders, content objects, users, user lists, ...
• Transformation of content into HTML, PDF, RTF, ...
• Integration of web based WYSIWYG editors such as TinyMCE
• Document navigation with any type of XML or HTML based navigation tree
• Very flexible customization of user interface
• Integration of technology of your choice (e.g. Flash, JavaScript, AJAX, CSS, XHTML, ...)
• xParrot allows you to manage any type of XML based content. This can be text documents, structured data, spreadsheets or even SVG drawings as long as a browser based user interface can be rendered to view and edit this kind of content.