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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

An Authors-Only Workflow


We now have an author group assigned to the PlantCatalog channel. A workflow is automatically enforced on the PlantCatalog channel without any additional programming.

An authors-only workflow provides the simplest and most straightforward route to getting a posting published. Authors update placeholder content and save as many times as they need to without affecting the content on the live site. Upon clicking Submit, the latest working copy of the posting becomes available on the live site.

Let's see the authors-only workflow in action for the PlantCatalog channel.

Log in as Author1

Browse to http://localhost/TropicalGreen/PlantCatalog. Since we have configured the browser to prompt for a user name and password, a login dialog appears. Enter the credentials of the author:

  • UserName = Author1

  • Password = [the password you have set for Author1]

  • Domain (optional) = localhost

Edit the Hibiscus Posting as Author1

The TropicalGreen plant catalog will appear. Select the Hibiscus...