GeneralKB features and benefits.
The following is an overview of just some of the many exciting features and benefits:
Storing and Retrieving
- Capture and store web data
- Dynamic data files
- Photos
- Spreadsheets
- Databases
- Text Documents
- Web Pages
- Executable Programs
- Internal Document
Search, Sort & Organize
- Powerful search engine allowing three separate levels of search (from easy to complex searches) according to any topic criteria
- Individual Bookmark collections for personalized access to your own recurring topics.
- The collection file can be loaded for Batch Export or Print Preview (Templates) and Merge Printing.
- Sort on any of eleven Topics properties for systematic display of topics
- Incremental Search for pre-selecting Categories and Topics
- Filter Topics to reduce visual clutter
- Group Topics to view assembled groups in a different pattern
- Attach Topic to multiple Categories for finding a topic in many places
- Search for exact phrase or any keywords
- Perform search inside document text
- Organize articles by Topic, Category, or Bookmark
Security and Sharing
- Client/Server technology and security features make GeneralKB a secure and responsive tool for sharing information throughout your organization, providing better data integrity and overall system reliability
- Easy access to your organization's knowledge base either on LAN, VPN, WAN or over Internet
- Database protection using hardware ID for databases containing sensitive data. This feature allows the administrator to indicate which PC's which will be allowed to access the database, thereby preventing access from unauthorized users.
- User Manager to control access to your Databases
- Server Admin Utility for maintaining the server and user accounts
- Password protection of data
Layout and Interface
- Program windows layout manager
- Five Display panels to view and manipulate the database and documents
- User Customizable panel layout with keyboard shortcuts
- Easy to manage Categories Tree panel shows categories and subcategories
- Topics Panel shows topics Titles and properties
- Bookmarks Panel shows Bookmarked Topics for each Bookmark Group
- Search Panel provides three levels of custom searching
- Document Navigation Grid displays unlimited attachments, documents and web pages per topic
- Unlimited Tabs to switch instantly between open documents regardless of category
Capturing and attaching documents and web pages
- Add unlimited Documents to each topic
- Web Pages can be directly captured and stored from Internet Explorer, FireFox or local file
- The integral Web Capture tool allows you to capture the whole page or the particular part or image on the web page and save it to database
- Also it can capture local web sites, saved to hard disk
- Executable programs can also be attached for easy invocation
Management features
- User Manager to maintain user permissions and access
- Database Manager to access various databases and establish shortcuts
- Effective database maintenance
- Layout Manager to customize various layouts
Document Editor
- Type directly into the internal document editor
- Powerful enough to be used as a WYSIWYG web page editor
- Stand-alone Application for independent editing
- Microsoft Word style document editing tool supports Rich Text Format (RTF)
- Tables
- Hyperlinks
- Styles Inspector to work with styles
- Merge Tags Inspector for creating Print Preview templates
- Multi lingual including right-to-left languages
- Live spell checker and much more
- Export documents to its own format (KBD) and to other formats - TXT, RTF, Microsoft Word DOC, HTML, XML and PDF, individually or in batches
- Print and preview using templates
- Batch export documents with just two clicks
Additional Features
- Personal Scheduler (similar to Microsoft Outlook) for keeping track of appointments and birthdays (also available as stand-alone element)
- Public Scheduler for keeping your co-workers informed of meetings and appointments
- Does not install additional files in other directories
- Does not require additional DLLs, VBXs, OCXs
- No limitation for database size
- Much, much more