Document creation and management system

A documentation management system for managing creation and publication of a document, the documentation management system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories storing instructions, which when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processor to perform operations comprising:
• causing display of a first graphical user interface (GUI) on a first client device executing a first frontend application communicatively coupled with the document management system;
• authenticating a first user of the first client device;
• causing display of an author view of a hierarchical document structure in a navigational pane of the first GUI;
• receiving content in an editor pane of the first GUI;
• in response to receiving a save command in the first GUI:
• saving the content as a page in the document management system and associating the first user as an author of the page;
• and
• generating a document entry in the author view of the hierarchical document structure, the document entry displayed with a draft status indicator corresponding to a draft status of the page;
• causing display of a second GUI on a second client device executing a second frontend application communicatively coupled with the document management system;
• authenticating a second user of second client device;
• causing display of a reader-view of the hierarchical document structure in a navigational pane of the second GUI;
• in accordance with the draft status of the page corresponding to a pre-publication state, suppress display of the document entry in the reader-view of the hierarchical document structure for the second user;
• in accordance with the draft status of the page corresponding to a post-publication state, display the document entry in the reader-view of the hierarchical document structure for the second user;
• and
• in response to a user selection of the document entry, cause display of the content in the second graphical user interface.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium (CRM) comprising instructions, which when executed by one or more processors of a document management systems, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:

• causing display of a first graphical user interface (GUI) on a first client device executing a first frontend application communicatively coupled with the document management system;
• authenticating a first user of the first client device;
• causing display of an author view of a hierarchical document structure in a navigational pane of the first GUI;
• receiving content in an editor pane of the first GUI;
• in response to receiving a save command in the first GUI:
• saving the content as a page in the document management system and associating the first user as an author of the page;
• and
• generating a document entry in the author view of the hierarchical document structure, the document entry displayed with a draft status indicator corresponding to a draft status of the page;
• causing display of a second GUI on a second client device executing a second frontend application communicatively coupled with the document management system;
• authenticating a second user of second client device;
• causing display of a reader-view of the hierarchical document structure in a navigational pane of the second GUI;
• in accordance with the draft status of the page corresponding to a pre-publication state, suppress display of the document entry in the reader-view of the hierarchical document structure for the second user;
• in accordance with the draft status of the page corresponding to a post-publication state, display the document entry in the reader-view of the hierarchical document structure for the second user;
• and
• in response to a user selection of the document entry, cause display of the content in the second graphical user interface.