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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

Canceling an Operation


Canceling an operation stops the operation from being carried out. You may need to cancel an operation when attempting to prevent authors from:

  • Creating two or more postings of the same name in the channel

  • Deleting postings

  • Modifying certain properties with certain values (or at all)

  • Carrying out just about any operation

You can cancel an operation from within the pre-event handler of this operation simply by adding the following line of code:

e.Cancel = true;

Preventing Authors from Saving Pages with Identical Names

When a channel has two or more postings with the same name, you can access only one of them using hierarchical URLs. For example, if you have three postings by the name of EggPlant in the Plant Catalog channel, entering http://localhost/tropicalgreen/plantcatalog/ EggPlant.htm fetches only one of the three postings. There is no way you can view the other three postings unless you know their Unique-ID-based URLs.

To prevent such situations from happening, you...