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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

Adding Custom Action Controls to the Console


When you actually start planning your site, you may realize that the functions available on the Default Console are still not quite enough to meet the site's requirements.

Here are just some of the common requests we have received in various projects based on MCMS.

Authors who have seen a prototype based on the Default Console have said that:

  • They want to skip the Choose a Template screens when creating a new page. It does not make sense to repeat the action every time a new page is created when the same template is always used within a particular channel.

  • When deleting a posting, they want all connected postings to be deleted as well.

  • They want to see a list of postings that have expired.

  • The Decline function is great. But the author receiving the bad news has no clue why the work has been declined. To aid editors to give a reason for declining, there should be the ability to enter a message explaining why the work was not accepted.

  • Authors have asked...