Items represent most of the content on a Deme site. Click on each item type to learn more.
Address Contact Method is a type of Contact Method.
Contact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all address contact methodsAgents perform actions on the site.
Human users are represented by people, a special type of agent.
If you have administrative abilities, you'll be able to Login as the Admin agent to make major changes to the site.
See all agentsA Poll is a collection of propositions that are presented as a poll to a specific group.
An Agree disagree poll allows poll participants to either agree, disagree, or not answer propositions.
See all agree disagree pollsAim Contact Method is a type of Contact Method.
Contact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all AIM contact methodsAnonymous Agent is a type of Agent.
Agents perform actions on the site.
Human users are represented by people, a special type of agent.
If you have administrative abilities, you'll be able to Login as the Admin agent to make major changes to the site.
See all anonymous agentsApprove Plurality Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Approve Plurality DecisionsApprove Threshold Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Approve Threshold DecisionsApprove Threshold Eligible Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Approve Threshold Eligible DecisionsAuthentication Methods allow users to login as agents.
See all authentication methodsChoose N Poll is a type of Poll.
A Poll is a collection of propositions that are presented as a poll to a specific group.
See all choose n pollsChoose Plurality Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Choose Plurality DecisionsChoose Threshold Eligibles Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Choose Threshold Eligibles DecisionsChoose Threshold Participants Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Choose Threshold Participants DecisionsChoose Unanimous Decision is a type of Decision.
Decisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all Choose Unanimous DecisionsA Collection is a group of items.
See all collectionsComments are used to discuss items. Currently there are only Text comments.
See all commentsContact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all contact methodsCustom URLs let you create a path to an item.
For example, to have http://www.yoursite.com/about/ point to an HTML document named "About Page", set:
- Item name to "About Page URL"
- Viewer to "htmldocument"
- Action to "show"
- Aliased item to the About Page item
- Parent URL to your base Site item
- Path to "about"
To set up http://www.yoursite.com/about/team, you'd set Parent URL to the Custom URL for the about page, to the "About Page URL" item.
See all custom URLsDecisions are used in polls to keep track of how groups decide.
See all decisionsA Deme account is a basic authentication method.
- Choose an agent
- Create a username and password
- Login as that agent by choosing Deme account from the login menu
Deme settings are created from the Modify settings page.
See all Deme settingsA Django template document can be used to affect the website's entire layout.
By default, Deme uses Bootstrap to layout the page. For example, to have content in two columns, enter "<div class='row'><div class='col-sm-6'>First Column</div><div class='col-sm-6'>Second Column</div></div>". Learn more from the Bootstrap docs.
For more details on how to use Django template documents, see the Deme documentation.
See all Django template documentsDocuments represent items that people work on together.
Instead of creating documents directly, you create specific types of documents, like file documents (used for uploading files), image documents or text documents.
See all documentsEmail Contact Method is a type of Contact Method.
Contact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all email contact methodsEvent is a type of Html Document.
HTML documents let you create and edit HTML content using a rich text editor.
Use custom URLs to make links to HTML documents.
See all eventsExcerpts refer to a part of another item.
See all excerptsFax Contact Method is a type of Contact Method.
Contact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all fax contact methodsA File document lets you upload a file from your computer to the site.
Images should be uploaded as image documents.
See all file documentsA Folio is a special collection that belongs to a group.
See all foliosGroup Agent is a type of Agent.
Agents perform actions on the site.
Human users are represented by people, a special type of agent.
If you have administrative abilities, you'll be able to Login as the Admin agent to make major changes to the site.
See all group agentsA Group is a type of collection that contains agents as members.
Groups have:
- Social network style pages
- Group folios for collecting related items
- Group agents that can be used to represent the entire group when taking actions
HTML documents let you create and edit HTML content using a rich text editor.
Use custom URLs to make links to HTML documents.
See all HTML documentsImage Document is a type of File Document.
A File document lets you upload a file from your computer to the site.
Images should be uploaded as image documents.
See all image documentsAll content on the site are stored and treated as Items.
Instead of creating items directly, you create specific types of items, like people or documents.
See all itemsMemberships allow items to be put into collections.
See all membershipsAn OpenID account is a authentication method that allows users to use their OpenID to log in.
See all OpenID accountsPeople (a type of agent) represent real life people who use the site.
Adding users
- Create a new person
- Give them an authentication method
Phone Contact Method is a type of Contact Method.
Contact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all phone contact methodsA Poll is a collection of propositions that are presented as a poll to a specific group.
See all pollsProposition is a type of Html Document.
HTML documents let you create and edit HTML content using a rich text editor.
Use custom URLs to make links to HTML documents.
See all propositionsA Site represents a website.
The site title and logo can all be changed by editing a site.
To change the look and feel of a site, edit its Default Layout.
A Deme installation can be configured to have multiple sites which all have access to the same items.
See all sitesSubscriptions allow people to be notified via contact method whenever a specific item is edited, commented on, deactivated, etc.
See all subscriptionsText comments work with discussion boards as well as any item that has comments.
See all text commentsText Document Excerpt is a type of Excerpt.
Excerpts refer to a part of another item.
See all text document excerptsText documents let you store arbitrary text.
For rich text editing, consider using HTML documents.
See all text documentsTransclusions allow one item to point to a very specific location of a specific version of another item.
See all transclusionsViewer requests represent actions taken on specific items (or types of items) within the Deme site.
Instead of directly creating viewer requests, you can either create sites or custom URLs.
See all viewer requestsA WebAuth account is a authentication method that allows users to use their Stanford WebAuth account to log in.
See all WebAuth accountsWebpages store website URLs.
See all webpagesWebsite Contact Method is a type of Contact Method.
Contact methods are assigned to specific agents.
See all website contact methods