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Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development

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Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development

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. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) also features in the book. SPS 2003 enables enterprises to deploy an intelligent portal that seamlessly connects users, teams, and knowledge so that people can take advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them work more efficiently.You've mastered the basics of MCMS, and setup your own MCMS installation. You've only scratched the surface. This book is your gateway to squeezing every penny from your investment in MCMS and SPS, and making these two applications work together to provide an outstanding richness of content delivery and easy maintainability. As a developer, the Publishing API (PAPI) is at the heart of your work with MCMS, and this book starts by taking you on the most detailed tour of the PAPI you will find anywhere. As a live example, a component that reveals the structure of your MCMS site is created, taking you through how to manage the common elements of MCMS programmatically. Getting SharePoint and MCMS to work together is the next stop in the book. You will see how to use SharePoint's search engine to search MCMS content, publish content between the two systems, and create SharePoint Web Parts to draw content from MCMS.To ease your everyday work with MCMS, there are chapters on placeholder validation, and some useful custom placeholders for common MCMS tasks, such as a date-time picker, a placeholder for multiple attachments, and a DataGrid placeholder among others. There are a number of ways to consume MCMS content from the outside world, and we look at two exciting ways here; RSS and InfoPath/Web Services. The InfoPath solution provides another interface to MCMS content that allows content authors to concentrate on content and not the presentation. The book is rounded off with a number of must-have MCMS tips and tricks. Revert a posting to a previous version Change a postingÔø???s template Build a recycle bin Deal with links to deleted resources Update a postingÔø???s properties directly from a template file Re-write ugly URLs to friendly URLs Export resource gallery items using the site deployment API (SDAPI) Configure the position and size of the Web Author Console Dialogs Get frames and IFrames to work correctly in a template file
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server Development
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
Index

Additional Utilities Included


In addition to the SharePoint web parts, server controls, and MCMS placeholders provided by Connector for SharePoint Technologies to allow content integration, Microsoft included additional SharePoint web parts and command-line utilities to assist you with configuring SharePoint and managing your MCMS website.

The following two administrative SharePoint web parts are included in the Connector to assist MCMS site Authors, Editors, and Moderators with maintaining their MCMS site:

  • Pages in Production Web Part:This web part displays all postings the current user is currently working on, but has not yet published, which is comparable to the “Production Manager” dialog in MCMS.

  • Pages Waiting for Approval Web Part:This web part displays all postings that are pending approval on the MCMS site, which is comparable to the “Approval Assistant” dialog in MCMS.

Previously we mentioned the two command-line utilities:

  • SearchPropertiesSetup.exe:This utility is used to add the advanced HTML META tags to the SPS Search Service.

  • SetupSearch.exe:This is used to automatically create SharePoint content sources and search groups for all top-level channels within an MCMS site.

A third command-line utility, excludeCMS.exe, will add SharePoint managed path exclusion rules for all MCMS URL paths in a virtual server. It is necessary for all MCMS paths to be excluded from SharePoint’s ISAPI filters when SharePoint and MCMS are configured on the same virtual server within Internet Information Services (IIS) or MCMS will not operate correctly.