We will now create the new section for the TropicalGreen website, named Columns. It will be a place for listing articles about the latest news from TropicalGreen. Authors usually create articles from Word documents. A typical column runs about a page long and may include pictures at appropriate points. Here's what we will be doing:
We will start by creating a template for our columns.
Next, we will open an existing Word document and use Authoring Connector to create a new posting based on the template that we have created.
Then we will use the existing Word document and test the update and replace functions of Authoring Connector.
The final part of the chapter will discuss how certain parts of the publishing process can be automated using Publishing Tasks.
We'll re-use the channel rendering script from Chapter 9 to list all articles available in the channel.
An article created for the columns section appears as shown in the following figure: