DRAKE for Users

DRAKE has many sophisticated and approved features which were developed especially for the use in companies, teams and projects. The follwing key-features are relevant for the users:

 

A well arranged interface

DRAKE offers a friendly, well-arranged interface. All features are easy to find and simple to use. Main Tabs help to divide huge amounts of contents into different areas – e.g. to organize multiple clients in one instance. Each main tab can be organized in a completely independent way: Simply assign different colors to each section, or create individual navigation structures.
<b>Handy Layout</b><br>With DRAKE you can build individual sections for your content (see arrows). For each of these 'main sections', you can easily create an individual navigation. So, apart from the guided search shown in this picture...<b>Handy Layout</b><br>...you can also set up an alphabetical index, combined with a teaser-like layout for each article (one city is represented in one article in the example shown here)... <b>Handy Layout</b><br>...or use a classic tree structure navigation. In this example we combined this with a 2-colums teaser-layout. So each main section can be designed independently, without disturbing the overall design.

 

 

Flexible navigation – based on 'Faceted Search'

Instead of 'clicking through' hierarchical tree structures, you simply filter your requested result with a few clicks. How many filters you choses, and in which order, is totally up to you. The way you browse through the content doesn't need to follow any central logic - it follows your way of understanding. This is ingeniously simply – and simply ingenious!
<b>Flexible Navigation</b><br>Our main navigation system called 'Guided Search', offers a dynamic set of filters, from which you can chosoe the terms that match your personal request. How many you choose, and in which order, is totally up to you.<b>Flexible Navigation</b><br>Each term you choose moves to the box "Selected Terms". This way you always see which selection you already made.<b>Flexible Navigation</b><br>Only filter terms for available articles are shown at any time. Accordingly, the list of available articles alway matches your selection. That means you have great flexibility and can find the right piece of information in just seconds.

 

 

Full-Text-Search – including attachments

The search engine used by DRAKE doesn't only index node contents – it also searches file attached to them. Given these files have a machine readable format, like PDF, .XLS, .TXT or .DOC, they will be listed in the search results. Little icons indicate if the search result is within an article or in a file attachment.

 

 

Easy references

If an article in DRAKE references other articles, these references are displayed in a central list below the article text, not somewhere within the text (as long as you want it this way). This makes long articles with lots of references way more reader-friendly. Of course you can also use backlinks, which are set automatically. This way relating content always is only a click away.

 

 

Personal Bookmarks

Every user in DRAKE can create and edit a personal list of favorites. A favorite can be a single article, a fulltext search, even a certain combination of filter terms within the guided search. This way everyone can reduce the number of recurring clicks, and speed up his personal version of DRAKE.