Features
CMDBuild consists of two main modules:
- Administration Module, dedicated to data structures definition, user and groups management and other administrative functions
- Data Management Module, dedicated to data visualization and manipulation, process execution and report creation.
Main features of Administrative Module:
- classes definition (ie new object types)
- class attributes creation
- relationships definition ("domains")
- lists of values ("lookup") management
- roles and authorizations for single class definition
- group-based navigation menus
- report and workflow process import
- external data interchange (through connectors configuration)
- cartography configuration
- options and preferences definition
Main features of Data Management Module:
- card data management
- filter cards with advanced search utility and relation criteria
- create and edit cards data
- create and edit relations between cards
- view history of card data updates and relations
- add attachments to cards
- view cartography
- Workflow management
- launch process
- view process state
- Report
- launch simple tabulated reports
- launch complex reports created using external editor and then imported
- Virtual table (views) definition and consultation
- Utility functions
- massive card data editing
- password editing
In addition to these two direct editing modules, CMDBuild also includes:
- web-service SOAP with full access in read/write mode to data stored
- daemon service to periodically synchronize data with external sources, useful to obtain automatic updates from automatic inventory system.
