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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 a Login Channel for Authors


If letting regular subscribers see the Login button is not desirable, consider getting authors to bookmark the login page (http://localhost/tropicalgreen/login.aspx). Whenever authors require access the authoring site, they simply select this bookmark. Using this method, you don't have to create a Login button to bring users to the login page.

To make it even easier for authors to remember the URL to the login page, create a channel to which the guest account does not have access. Doing so provides a shorter and friendlier URL.

Let's try this out. Use Site Manager to create a new channel below the TropicalGreen channel with the following properties:

Property

Value

Name

Admin

DisplayName

Admin

Script Url

/tropicalgreen/templates/ChannelRenderingScript.aspx

Remove the Guests subscriber rights group access to this channel. When you navigate to http://localhost/tropicalgreen/admin, you will be brought to the login page.