Planning-guide collection

CMS planning guides

Focused planning guidance connected to the CMS product model.

Every entry has a complete planning baseline. Deeper researched records can enrich individual pages without duplicating their shell, route, or shared components.

Planning question to product decision map A planning question moves through a focused guide and finishes with a scoped product model. 1 · START Planning question 2 · 23 PUBLISHED PATHS Focused guide 3 · OUTCOME Scoped product model Planning question to product decision map A planning question moves through a focused guide and finishes with a scoped product model. 1 · START Planning question 2 · 23 PUBLISHED PATHS Focused guide 3 · OUTCOME Scoped product model
One useful guide should reduce a product-model decision, not multiply pages around the same phrase.

Available planning briefs

Use the guide that answers your current decision

CMP-016 · Catalog planning brief

CMS vs Help Center

Compare general structured publishing across channels with a support product optimized for answer discovery, troubleshooting, content ownership, feedback, and escalation.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-001 · Catalog planning brief

Headless CMS: Product Requirements and Operating Tradeoffs

Plan structured content, API delivery, authoring, preview, workflow, assets, routing, frontend ownership, releases, and governance across consuming products.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-002 · Catalog planning brief

Traditional Page-Based CMS

Scope page trees, templates, rich editing, navigation, media, roles, draft and publish, search metadata, preview, redirects, and site administration.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-003 · Catalog planning brief

Composable Content Platform

Cover content types, reusable components, references, authoring, preview, APIs, assets, workflow, release, routing, and governance across multiple channels.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-004 · Catalog planning brief

Multi-Site CMS

Plan shared and local content, templates, permissions, inheritance, overrides, domains, publishing, localization, assets, search, archiving, and central-local ownership.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-005 · Catalog planning brief

Multi-Brand CMS

Scope separate brand models, domains, design systems, editorial teams, shared modules, asset rights, approvals, analytics boundaries, and brand lifecycle.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-006 · Catalog planning brief

Multilingual and Multi-Market CMS

Cover source content, locale fallback, regional variants, translation status, review, preview, coordinated release, URLs, search metadata, assets, and update propagation.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-007 · Catalog planning brief

Omnichannel CMS

Plan content reused across websites, apps, portals, email, commerce, and other surfaces with channel fields, preview, delivery, governance, and ownership.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-008 · Catalog planning brief

Enterprise Editorial Workflow CMS

Scope distributed authors, section owners, multiple review stages, legal or brand sign-off, scheduling, embargoes, versioning, audit history, and emergency publishing.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-009 · Catalog planning brief

Regulated Content Approval CMS

Plan controlled authoring, required reviewers, evidence, segregation of duties, version comparison, approval expiry, publication, withdrawal, audit history, and policy boundaries.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-010 · Catalog planning brief

Marketing Website CMS

Cover landing pages, reusable campaign blocks, forms or integrations, preview, approvals, scheduling, SEO fields, experimentation boundaries, localization, and campaign archiving.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-011 · Catalog planning brief

Newsroom CMS

Plan desks, story types, live updates, briefs, media, assignments, rapid review, corrections, scheduled and urgent publishing, alerts, syndication, and archives.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-012 · Catalog planning brief

Ecommerce Content Platform

Scope product-supporting editorial content, buying guides, categories, campaigns, reusable modules, localization, merchandising coordination, preview, and delivery to storefront surfaces.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-013 · Catalog planning brief

Product Documentation CMS

Cover concepts, guides, reference, tutorials, versions, structured navigation, code or media, review, release alignment, search, deprecation, and redirects.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-014 · Catalog planning brief

Knowledge Management CMS

Plan structured internal knowledge, owners, subject experts, permissions, taxonomy, search, review cadence, versions, expiry, feedback, and archival.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-015 · Catalog planning brief

Intranet Content CMS

Scope policies, news, resources, departments, role-based access, authoring, approval, search, personalization boundaries, employee lifecycle, and content freshness.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-016 · Catalog planning brief

Franchise Content Platform

Plan central brand content, location variants, local permissions, campaigns, menus or services, assets, approvals, domains, localization, and compliance review.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-017 · Catalog planning brief

Association and Member Content CMS

Cover public and member-only resources, publications, committees, roles, events, taxonomy, access, review, archives, and member-system integration.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-018 · Catalog planning brief

Public-Sector Information CMS

Scope accessible public information, departments, services, forms or links, multi-stage review, emergencies, translations, records, archives, and accountability.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-019 · Catalog planning brief

Rights-Aware Media CMS

Plan asset metadata, ownership, licenses, territories, expiry, renditions, approvals, usage tracking, replacement, withdrawal, and channel delivery.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-020 · Catalog planning brief

Content Lifecycle and Governance Platform

Focus on ownership, review dates, expiry, update tasks, duplication, reuse, archiving, legal holds, redirects, audit history, and governance reporting.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-021 · Catalog planning brief

Component and Design-System CMS

Scope reusable content and presentation components, variants, constraints, preview, documentation, permissions, rollout, deprecation, and adoption across sites.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026

CMS-022 · Catalog planning brief

Portal Content Management Platform

Plan structured content published into authenticated customer, partner, member, or employee portals with entitlements, audience views, review, and application integration.

Primary product guide: CMS · Reviewed 17 August 2026