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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

Creating Rights Groups


In this section, we will create a new authors rights group for a group of researchers working on the TropicalGreen site. There is only one way to create rights groups and that is to use Site Manager.

To create a rights group, open Site Manager and log in with an account that has administrator rights. Click on the User Roles icon.

Note

The User Roles icon does not appear in Site Manager.

You must log into Site Manager with an MCMS Administrator account. Only members of the MCMS Administrators user role have the ability to create, update, and delete other rights groups.

In the User Roles panel, right-click on the user role you wish to create a rights group for. In our case, we want to create a new authors group. Right-click on the Authors user role and select New Rights Group from the pop-up menu.

A rights group named New Rights Group is created and appears in the Authors list.

Right-Click on New Rights Group and select Rename from the pop-up menu (or press F2). Name the...