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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

Connected Postings Share Workflow Processes


We have seen how shared content gets updated to all connected postings when the posting is saved. What about getting the postings published? Do we have to visit each and every connected posting to submit them one by one before all shared content gets published?

Submission or Approval of a Posting Submits or Approves all Connected Postings

Before we began this chapter, we assigned the Researcher rights group to both the Gardens and Members channels. This means that the workflow mechanics for both the public and members' channels are the same: it is an authors-only publishing process (see Chapter 10 for details) where the posting's status changes to published/approved/expired immediately after authors submit them. The following table shows the current status of both connected pages:

Display Name

Status

Herb Garden (Member's View)

Saved

The Herb Garden (Public View)

Saved

With the members’ version of the page opened, click Submit. Note the status...