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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

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Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server

Overview of this book

Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 is a dynamic web publishing system with which you can build websites quickly and cost-efficiently. MCMS provides the administration, authoring, and data management functionality, and you provide the website interface, logic, and workflow. Once your website is up and running, your content contributors can add and edit content on their own, without the need to work with developers or the IT department. First time developers of Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 face a relatively steep learning curve. Not only are they expected to be conversant in the Microsoft .NET Framework, they are also required to be familiar with the concepts of MCMS 2002. Many beginners to MCMS start out by looking at the example site that ships with the product; tweaking it, dissecting it and turning it inside out using the obscure code comments as markers. However, when it comes to starting their own website from scratch, many are baffled ? where do they begin? This book exists to answer that question; teaching the essential concepts of MCMS 2002 in a clear, straightforward and practical manner. Containing answers to some of the most asked questions in developer newsgroups, this book is a treasure trove of tricks and tips for solving the problems faced by MCMS developers. This is a unique resource focused exclusively on the needs of developers using MCMS. It doesn?t waste time and pages on user or administrator level information that is well covered in other documentation. It?s a distillation of practical experience that developers need to get results, fast. The authors carefully structured example project complements and extends the knowledge gained from an initial look at the examples that ship with MCMS.
Table of Contents (28 chapters)
Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server
Credits
About the Authors
Introduction

Before We Begin


In this chapter, we will play the role of an author, an editor, and a moderator in turn to experience first-hand how the publishing process in MCMS works. These are the steps that we will take to set up and test the workflow:

  1. Prepare the environment by creating user accounts to represent authors, editors, and moderators for the TropicalGreen site and change our browser settings to allow us to log in using different user accounts.

  2. Create three rights groups: one for the authors, a second for the editors, and the third for the moderators.

  3. After creating the rights groups, we will assign the TropicalGreen users as members.

  4. Next, we will specify the channels, resource galleries, and template galleries that each rights group has access to.

Finally, we will test the workflow process by assuming the identities of an author, followed by an editor and a moderator.

Creating Local Accounts for TropicalGreen Users

Let's create user accounts for authors, editors, and moderators to simulate...