An FCS platform is made up of indivdually selected modules called "Services". The relationship between these services is explained in the chapter "Design of the system".

At the moment the FCS offers 13 content-services and 5 functional-services:

Content-Services These services allow you to create an publish facts (= content items).
	Text	create texts and format them with a text-editor	more
	News	clearly laid out presentation of latest news	more
	Downloads	upload and download files	more
	Images	upload pictures and include them in texts	more
	Events	list of upcoming/past events	more
	Links	collect, categorize, describe links	more
	Library	collect, categorize, describe bibliographic sources	more
	Forum	write short statements ("posten")	more
	Album	present a large number of pictures	more
	factchat	arrange written contributions on a chatboard	more
	Weblog	chronological list of entries	more
	Partner	logos of associates in the header	more
	Comment	add comments below a fact	more
	Company Profile	creation of company profiles	more
	Expert Profile	creation of expert profiles	more

Functional-Services These services provide support for working processes on the plattform.
	Search	fulltext and advanced search on the whole platform	more
	Structure	create a hierarchical folder structure	more
	Notification	automatic notification about changes on the platform	more
	Users Online	display of all users who are currently online	more
-	TinyMCE	text-editor for writing and formatting text	more

The names of services are standard designations used by factline. Other names are possible.

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