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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

The Console in the Seven Modes of the Web Author Context


A total of seven different Web Author context modes exist. The Web Author Console has a different display for each mode and changes from one to the other according to several factors including the state of the posting and the action performed. Here are the seven modes:

  1. AuthoringNew is the mode while you are working on a new page.

  2. AuthoringPreview is the mode when you preview a page by clicking on the Preview button while creating a new page or editing an existing page. The Default Console can never show any options in this mode.

  3. AuthoringReedit is the mode while you edit an existing page. You get to this mode after selecting the Edit option in the Web Author Console.

  4. PresentationPublished is the mode when you open a posting in its published state.

  5. PresentationUnpublished is the mode entered when you view a posting in its unpublished state. You get to this mode immediately after clicking the Switch To Edit Site link when you first enter...