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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

Editing the Hibiscus Posting


You should still be on the Hibiscus posting and in edit site view.

Start Editing

Click Edit and the Web Author Console will switch to the authoring view. You will see:

Note

The HTML Placeholder does not show up correctly. I see the area for entering content but the Toolbar is missing.

The HTML placeholder requires each author to download and install a Microsoft ActiveX control. If your authors are having problems downloading the control from the MCMS server, you could do one of the following:

  • Ensure that the user is a member of the local administrator or power-user security group on the computer and attempt to load the page again. If the browser does not prompt to download and install the control, it could mean that there is a previous version of the control that was not successfully installed. To remove the earlier installation of the control:

    1. Select Tools | Internet Option from the Internet Explorer menu bar.

    2. Look for the Temporary Internet files section of the General...