Bitrix Intranet Portal Module Information

  Main Module

This module is the basis of the Bitrix Intranet Portal system. It holds other modules together providing the interactive nature of the system. The module enables you to create, maintain and manage an unlimited number of web sites.

Main Features

• Automatic site map

• Caching
• CAPTCHA
• Control Panel management
• Multilanguage support
• Multisite support
• Security policy
• Site wizards
• UTF-8 support
• Windows-style user interface
  

  Site Explorer

This is an integrated solution that allows viewing and editing of static site content. It is a mainstay of CMS, but efficient CMS is much more than just a powerful visual HTML editor.

Features:

• Access permissions

• Adaptive interface
• Admin toolbar
• Audio and video on pages, blogs and forums
• Dynamic content management
• Fast and intuitive HTML editor
• Grammar and spell check
• Media Library for media data management
• Site structure management
• Website optimization (SEO)

  Information blocks

This is a convenient way to store frequently updated information. This publishing information process saves time and effort, allowing you to add new information to the site easily.

Main features: Complex catalogs with numerous properties, hierarchical structuring of products/accessories, and linked catalog elements (products, articles, news, etc.)

• FAQ section
• File archives
• Job vacancies
• Knowledge base
• News feeds
• Objects that permit properties and links to other objects
• Articles
• Photo gallery
• Press releases
• Product catalog - product comparison, catalog search
• Website projects

  Search

This module performs information indexing and search on the site.

Features:

• Search the word by stem (morphological search)

• Choose to search all the pages or certain sections
• Use the query & tag clouds for searches

Additional Features:

• AJAX support
• Automatically index all site documents: HTML pages, information blocks elements, and forum records
• Create Google Sitemap
• Create your own search form design using the visual component
• Include only valuable information in index
• Increase search speed by 5 to 10 times
• Limit the number of search results
• Rank search results by the search phrase density;
• Re-index information automatically in the real time and site manually
• Search all the indexed information and the separate sections
• Search and display results according to the access permissions
• Search static and dynamic content
• Sort by relevance or any other result parameter
• Tag clouds
• Use inclusion and exclusion masks for flexible site indexing
• Use logical operators for complex queries
• Use the query language to write search queries

  Intranet

This module can help you manage daily tasks; conveniently organize all social or corporate events and process electronic queries from colleagues and friends. It is a very powerful HR tool that helps build up the company's structure, indicate staff changes or manage employees' profiles.

The module is used for search of employees, displaying staff changes, absence chart, promote honored employees or a reminder of birthdays. All features can be integrated into a single calendar that supports coordinating events of different priority.

The Intranet module supports two-way synchronization with Microsoft Outlook. You can import data from the Intranet Portal (personal or workgroup calendars, business contacts, tasks, etc.) into MS Outlook, and synchronize all events, avoid any discrepancies between the calendars and schedulers. The module meets all MS Outlook synchronization requirements and standards set by Microsoft.

With the employee search, you will only need to type the first two or three letters of the first or last name of the person you're looking for, and a full list containing theses letters will appear in the results. The search mechanism is so easy you won't even have to type a single key. With only a couple of mouse clicks you can find the person you're looking for on your Intranet Portal.

Bitrix Intranet Portal includes a section called "Company" where you can include information about the company's executives, the mission of the company or present the details of its structure and development strategies. You can also create photo or multimedia galleries accessible to all employees, to add value to the corporate culture of your company and strengthen awareness of your corporate identity.

The Absence Chart displays information on absent employees. The chart displays information in different colors, to indicate sick leave, business trip, etc. You can choose a certain date to be displayed, browse through all the employee entries, or choose only one department or company subdivision to be shown.

The Staff Change page displays what kind of staff changes have taken place in the company. You can choose a particular department or subdivision to see the latest staff changes.

Bitrix Intranet Portal includes also a special section where employees can be recognized among their colleagues for their work and achievements. It is motivating and can help create friendly competition between departments or employees. The Bitrix Intranet Portal will also remind you of upcoming birthdays in the company.

The Event Calendar can plan your daily tasks and update you on all the events that take place in your company. It enhances productivity, creates mobility and flexibility through faster access to workgroup discussions, workshops, etc. It can help you be active in all the company's social events.

The Meeting Room Booking tool helps you book a conference room or an office space for events. It can help you avoid double booking of a room. You can also include a request for meeting preparation, add additional information, set the user group permission for booking, etc.

Bitrix Intranet Portal can help you create and easily manage tasks and work duties. Employees can use this tool to organize their everyday work. You can create tasks inside your own profile or in your workgroup. You can assign a responsible person for completing a task, set the deadline, choose a priority level, edit or rearrange tasks, etc. You can also attach a file, include a description or instructions, show the progress of completion and much more.

Bitrix Intranet Portal can help you drastically reduce the number of routine and redundant tasks that you may encounter during working hours. e-Orders (Electronic Orders) are a very effective way to streamline minor administrative tasks and operations, such as ordering new stationery and office supplies, submitting maintenance service or courier delivery requests, etc.

The User Import Wizard is used for quick and convenient transfer of user information into the Bitrix Intranet Portal. A special mechanism of data compression is used to enhance transfer speed when importing new users.

  Social Network

This module can instantly improve your social networking portal. It is made for any size social network, which ease the process of building, implementing and managing any social networking site.

Features:

• Find new friends and build communities

• Promote business, ask for advice, and provide consultation
• Reconnect with old friends, colleagues, and classmates
• Share media files and blogs with communities
• Stay in touch with friends and family

  XMPP server

The XMPP server solves the most crucial problem any business may encounter: the need for a secure messaging system. This server avoids the use of unsafe ICQ or other public messaging services. The Portal runs over the Jabber protocol, which is supported by the most popular messaging applications. This means that you can communicate with your colleagues using your favorite applications such as Miranda, Pidgin, Psi and others.

Also, you can send and receive text messages, files, audio and video messages. You can also have your mobile device send and receive messages.

Features:

• Message exchange (IM)

• File exchange
• Always on-line
• Support for most popular messenger applications
• VoIP integration, video chat
• Mobile Portal
• Pre-created contact lists
• Common message history
• SSL support

The XMPP/JABBER server is a fully functional, thoroughly tested and stable software application. In addition to messaging, this module empowers your Portal management with the users’ on-line status. Your employees will now always be on-line wherever they are. Create contact lists manually or automatically at installation. The contact list contains the company structure grouped by departments. If your messenger supports nested groups, the groups in the contact list will mirror the department structure.

  Document Library

This module allows you to organize group access to office documents saved on the server with the options to edit, save older versions of the documents, work with files in a file manager and discuss published documents.

Main features:

• Access limitation to contents for groups and users

• Access to changes to documents in all types of storages: personal, public, and group
• Add web folders to Neighborhood Network of computers
• Block open documents from changes by other users
• Bulk upload of documents to the server from a selected folder
• Commentary for any published document
• Commentary for documents in workgroups
• Creation and deletion of personal folders for saving documents
• Creation and deletion of section and folders for workgroups and divisions
• Delete and change properties directly on the server
• Document history and access to previous versions
• Edit documents in Microsoft Office
• Index of office documents
• Map folders as a shared folder on network computers
• Map folders from Documents section of the portal to any network computer as a network drive
• Nesting allowed when creating new divisions and folders
• Option to overwrite existing files during upload
• Option to receive email updates for new comments on documents
• Organization of collaborative work with office documents saved on the server
• Save edited documents directly on the server
• Upload from multiple sources
• View and work with contents of web folders through the browser or Windows Explorer
• Workflow with a centralized document storage, approval system and management of document status

  Workflow

This module is of the most frequent applications used in public offices, large corporations by online media to arrange for a single chain of a document state flow. From document creation and until publication, the whole process can be managed by members in charge, while tracking the revision history and keeping cumulative versions of documents.

Features:

• Comparison of versions

• Different workflow routes for different users
• Document status before being published (draft, approved, etc.)
• Notification of users about the document status changes

This module is designed for staged processing of static pages and dynamic parts of the site. Permissions to access information can be relayed according to the employees' roles. Users that do not have sufficient permission will not be able to publish new or modified documents in the public section. A user who is enabled to do so can grant these permissions (e.g. administrator or editor).

  AD/LDAP

The Active Directory/LDAP Connector allows for simple integration of Bitrix Site Manager into corporate portals. It integrates the Bitrix Site Manager in the corporate network and provides centralized management of work groups inside the corporate information system.

AD/LDAP module features:

• Automatically create user profiles after registration using the Assignment Table. It creates the profile using data from the corporate server database;

• Manage user profiles centrally on the corporate server.
• Integration of the Bitrix Site Manager into the corporate network;
• Map the corporate network user groups to site user groups;
• User groups assignments

This module has been developed in accordance with LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) and AD (Active Directory) standards.

  Proactive Protection

This module presents the latest security technique, which combines technical and organizational measures that combat malicious programs, which have undergone modifications and those that are still unknown. The technology significantly increases security of web-based applications.

Benefits:

• Activity Control

• Authorized Sessions Protection
• Intrusion Log
• IP-based Control Panel pages
• One-Time Password technology
• Script Integrity Monitor
• Security Panel with security levels
• Stop Lists
• Web Application FireWall

Features:

• Activity control
• Control Panel protection
• Control panel to set protection level
• File integrity control
• Intrusion log
• One-time passwords
• Phishing Protection
• Proactive filter (Web Application FireWall)
• Session protection
• Stop list
• Verification of the file integrity control script

Photo Gallery

This module contains a set of contemporary and handy tools that helps you create and manage photo albums or image galleries on your site. It makes building a gallery very easy for any large web project. The bulk upload function helps to easily upload multiple photos. Visitors can rate photos and add comments. The photo gallery is implemented as a complex 2.0 component. Developers can create their additional templates or visual themes.

Features:

• Comment photos in blogs

• Create private and public albums
• Rate photos
• Resize images
• Tag clouds for quick and easy search
• Upload photos in a bulk
• Use SEF URLs

Additional Features:

• ActiveX and Java Plug-Ins

• Album Management & View
• Comments
• Component Parameters
• Image Processing & Upload Tools
• Site Design Integration
• Votings
• Other Options

  Forum

This module gives your site the ability to feature forums to organize communities, discuss articles, from the site audience or other purposes.

Main features

• Access permission limitation

• Avatars, nicknames
• CAPTCHA to prevent spam messages
• Custom smileys and icons
• New topics and messages subscription
• Private messages
• Ratings
• Unlimited number of discussions

 Blogs

Blogging is a popular way of sharing information these days. It is easy to use tool when it comes to publishing content, receiving comments and getting feedback or ratings.

With the Blogs module, you can:

• Add images to entries

• Create communities
• Keep a blog calendar
• Post, read and comment on entries
• Read friends' blog feeds
• RSS import
• Use tag clouds to search the entries

Blog Module features include:

• Blog calendar

• Blog communities
• Blog pages with tabs, which can let you, blog in Web 2.0 style
• Blog ratings based on the number of readers and comments
• Blog user groups with access rights to different blogs
• Draft messages
• E-mail notifications about new comments
• Friends’ blog feeds
• Icons and emoticons
• Images can be added to entries
• Instant images in messages
• Message calendar
• Messages can be categorized according to topics
• Posting, reading and commenting on entries
• Processing smilies and tags in posts and comments
• Recent comments are shown on the blogs main page
• RSS import
• Separate ratings for new and popular blogs
• Tag cloud support
• Tags added in blog message
• Trackbacks
• Tree-like comments
• Unlimited number of blogs

  e-Learning

This module helps you create online training courses, conduct tests and provide certificates to specialists

Main features

• Automatic results: test results can be checked automatically or manually

• Directory of attempts contains information on test attempts
• Export and import of courses (IMS Content Package, IMS QTI)
• Hierarchical structure of learning material
• Limits on test time and attempts
• Random question selection
• Single and multiple answers to questions
• Test journal containing information on test results

A typical course includes:

Chapters: subject sections and subsections of the course. Each chapter may contain many subsections.

Lessons: the course contents. Lessons can be linked to chapters, subsections or the course.

Questions: offered to learners after they study the lessons.

Self-check tests: allow students to evaluate how well they learned.

Final test: chapter or lesson tests can be a final test, or a customized test, excluding questions from the self-check tests; limits can be set for the number of attempts and time allowed.

  Newsletter

This module is used for the creation of mailing lists and sending newsletters.

Main features

• Anonymous and registered subscription

• HTML or text message format
• Importing of subscribers
• Newsletter can be sent to groups or individual recipients
• Subscription categories & confirmation message

Additional features:

• Clients can unsubscribe or edit preferences on the site

• Copy subscription issues
• Create and display an unlimited number of subscriptions
• Dispatch procedure to send bulk messages to a large number of subscribers
• Encode 8-bit headers
• Import subscribers from a file or a list
• Keep and manage an unlimited database of subscribers
• Keep message history with lists of recipients for each message
• Option to customize messages for individuals
• Permit users to select html or text format
• Prepare subscription messages in HTML or text format
• Return receipt upon opening of a message
• Select recipients by subscriber database, user groups, subscription format, address, select additional recipients
• Send a confirmation message to subscribers
• Send images in HTML as attachments for compatibility with newer browsers
• Send messages individually to each subscriber directly from the site
• Subscription with mandatory user registration
• Unauthorized anonymous subscription, identified by e-mail address only
• View message dispatch status

  Polls and Surveys

This module helps you conduct online polls and surveys. You can collect information about the site audience opinion, potential clients, or to carry out marketing research for advertising campaigns, etc.

Features:

• Create polls

• Display poll results in graphs and charts
• E-mail notifications
• Survey results sample

Additional Features:

• Assign access permissions to different user groups

• Create and share poll groups among multiple sites
• Create unlimited number of questions and answers
• Define answer field size
• Ensure visitor uniqueness
• Include or exclude a question from results
• Register voting events in the Web Analytics module
• Render the poll description and questions in HTML or text format
• Select different display templates for questions, poll display & results display template
• Send notifications via e-mail for each response
• Set chart pie colors, starting and ending dates of a poll
• Upload images from a local computer for use in the poll and question descriptions
• Use different input field types for answers
• View voting results & information on visitors who take part in polls

  Performance Monitor

This module shows how efficient your web projects really are by comparing results with the Bitrix benchmarking system. It is very useful for all web developers as it includes a number of tools that enables them to monitor and quickly eliminate problems that might be caused by insufficient product performance or poor capacity. The module is available in all Bitrix Site Manager 8.5 editions.

Features

• Access to the database, which allows user to select, filter and sort the processed data

• Database server statistics analysis with MySQL or Oracle
• Information on files used by a webpage, memory and time used for generating pages and processing the queries.
• PHP-error log can be stored with all notifications and warnings suppressed with “@” symbol
• Statistics analytics for pages, requests, database and PHP-errors statistics
• Syntax code highlighting with the geshi library
• Top-to-bottom database hits analysis, grouped by web pages, hits & query

This module also helps you measure and analyze the speed of web projects. It allows you to determine in absolute values how the projects are configured, compare results with the Bitrix benchmark provided with the module. It helps you analyze the overall website performance based on the Bitrix platform and locate ‘problem areas’. This module shows what can be done to improve each problem area, from website structure, the content management system used, website configurations, improper integration or poor hosting services.

The Bitrix benchmarking system is a set of values obtained from tests performed using Bitrix Virtual Appliance VMware Edition, which enables an optimal environment for Bitrix products. The Bitrix Virtual Appliance VMware Edition may be downloaded for free. The Performance Panel makes it possible can test web project performance and compare the results with the benchmark data. Recommendations on configuration are provided with the analysis based on Bitrix benchmarks, as well as a list of web pages that have the lowest performance results.

The module includes support for memcached, disk cache, APC, eAccelerator and Zend. The cache storage can be selected in the Performance Monitor settings.

  Helpdesk

This module helps organize technical support to help site users make inquiries on the web interface and e-mail. Visitors can make requests or inquiries, receive replies and continue the discussion. The administrator can monitor the support service in real time, appoint and reassign persons in charge, to ensure the quality and efficiency of work.

Main features

• Assign a person in charge of the ticket

• Attach images and documents to request
• Obtain reports and build graphs to evaluate the helpdesk work
• Place notes and commentary on tickets exclusive to helpdesk staff
• Receive support requests via web interface, e-mail, forums, phone and other sources
• Track request
• Use anti-spam

  Web Forms

This module enables the creating and publishing of web forms, such as surveys, request and comment forms, etc. Other features help you process, store and classify the obtained information. With this tool, you can get the information you need in a convenient way.

Features:

• Comment forms

• Feedback forms
• Order forms
• Registration forms
• Request forms and others
• Web form sample

  Advertising

This module is designed for the management and sales of advertising. It allows for insertion of any type of advertising, full control of display and disposition, contracts with advertisers, media activity planning, ad demonstrations to the target audience, banner click limits, and more. With this module, you could easily manage and sell banner advertising on your website.

Main features include:

• Define ad spots in the site template

• Gather banner statistics, impressions and clicks
• Publish image banners, HTML banners, flash banners and pop-ups
• Show third-party or external banners on your site
• Target banner by audience, visitor countries, daytime, keywords, ad campaigns and other settings

Interaction with Advertisers

Allow advertisers to publish ads on your site according to restrictions in their contracts. All changes take effect after administrator approval.

  Mail

This module uses the POP3 protocol to receive emails and other actions. The standard package dispatches e-mail messages to technical support. To protect against spam, a special algorithm is used, based on the Bayes principles.

Mail module features:

• Create email accounts

• Mailbox settings
• Mark messages as SPAM and automatically delete them
• Receive messages
• Set up rules for received messages Note: using the Mail module you cannot create web-based mail services like Gmail, YahooMail, Hotmail, etc.

  Localization

This module can help you localize the system and translate the Control Panel interface and messages into many languages.

Features:

• Catalogs with language files mirror the structure of files and folders

• Count of translated and untranslated messages for each file and folder
• Define the correct character set for each language
• Files are displayed as a catalog
• Translate all messages into different languages
• Use templates and HTML tags in messages
• View all messages or untranslated only

  Web Services Module

This module helps developers create new web services and integrate existing web services. It is ideal for integration with existing applications inside a company with external web services. It allows users to view a web site’s summary statistics.

  Compression

This module compresses pages before they are sent to a client to enable faster reception. The module reduces the size of transferred pages, which significantly increases the speed both for visitors and site administrators.

Module features:

• Compatible with any hosting service and uses only standard PHP modules

• Decrease the size of the transferred HTML data by 4 - 20 times
• Determine with a probability of 100% if a client supports data compression
• Eliminate errors in Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 and higher
• Put minimum possible load on the server processor
• Substantially speed up site browsing on the client side for both visitors and administrators Images start to load only after the compressed HTML is transferred and displayed to a visitor
• Work seamlessly and does not need any additional software to install on the client side

  Extranet

This module is new in the Bitrix Intranet Portal. It supplements and extends the corporate business environment, provides a space for people who are not inside the company (i.e., partners, clients, advisors, contractors) but that take active part in business processes and are in constant contact with employees.

This module is a secure business platform for you and your colleagues to contact the "outside world". It’s a common space for collaboration and communication between employees and other persons who work with your company. With this module, you and your partners, suppliers or clients will be able to handle common daily tasks faster, discuss projects in groups, exchange and organize information, etc. And it will not interfere with the tasks and issues inside your company's Intranet Portal, which is inaccessible from the outside.

  Business Processes/Business Processes Designer

The Business Processes module allows you to create, perform and manage information flows. It provides increased information management capacity than Workflow.

A Business Process is the flow of information, or documents, through a defined path or project. A business process can define:

• Entry and exit points

• Sequence of actions, steps, stages or functions to be completed in an assigned order or under certain conditions

This module provides an interface to create and edit business processes. The editor is easy enough that a regular business user would be able to handle many functions. It is a simple drag and drop block creator. A business process author can specify steps and sequence in the process and highlight the details of the process using simple visual schemes. The business process template defines the specific information flow, comprised of a set of actions. An action can involve creating a document, sending an e-mail message or making a database record.

The Workflow module enables step-by-step processing of static or dynamic pages and information. It is included in all the product editions.

The Business Processes module provides simple, step-by-step information block element processing in addition to variable or status-driven processes. It is included as Typical Processes module in junior editions. The full version, which provides tools to create new processes, is included in Bitrix Intranet Portal: Enterprise Edition.

  Site Controller

This tool helps you manage several web resources simultaneously and lets you synchronize data flows between websites. It enables complete integration of your corporate portal with websites or other intranets. Using this tool, you can organize the flow of information from your portal to and from other websites. Along with the Business Processes module, this module creates an intelligent business platform for building a multi-portal system that has both Intranet and Extranet solutions in one product.

  Web Analytics

This module helps you analyze online and offline advertising campaigns, estimate expenses per advertising channel, analyze the site structure and content, obtain extensive information on visitors and export to Microsoft Excel.

• Ability to customize the statistics system to store only the required amount of information to optimize system performance;

• Analyze advertising campaigns with statistical data, attention to content, events and financial indexes
• Analyze referral site and search engines & phrases used to find the site;
• Analyze site paths and sections path and traffic, entrance and exit points, overall daily site traffic;
• Analyze specific events; filter information by parameters using complex logical commands
• Automatic SE recognition system for replenishment of a search engine table;
• Ban visitors by one or more criteria
• Constantly updated IP-to-country database
• Event registration technology and event type registry & pie chart
• Export data in Excel format
• External ad campaigns analysis
• Gather and view real-time statistics
• Import events from CSV files with Share-it, Element 5, RegNow, RegSoft
• Online visitors monitoring
• Precise registration of file downloads and events; protection against fraudulent counters
• Real-time statistics
• ROI of ad campaigns
• Session emulation technology for visitors who do not accept cookies
• Site paths, site traffic (daily, monthly and custom periods) and sections analysis
• Site statistics summary and hit information
• Statistical charts and diagrams
• Store visitor profiles and monitor online visitors;
• Track real-time statistics
• Use different criteria to sort visitors by advertising campaigns
• View country-based visitor dynamics to analyze daily values (number of visitors per day from various countries); view this data in the form of a graph (with the x-axis as the timeline);
• Visitors detected or banned using IP-to-country and IP-to-city databases