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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

Publishing from Microsoft Word


Now that we have a template created, we can proceed to upload a document from Word using Authoring Connector. To begin, open a Word document. You can download the sample document from the code download section of the book's companion site or use one of your own documents. On the menu bar, select File | Send to MCMS | Create New Page. If you have any unsaved changes, Word prompts you to save them before proceeding.

The Authoring Connector Wizard dialog appears as shown in the following figure. Ensure that the Change Server Name and Path option is unchecked. Click Next to get past the welcome screen. If you have set Internet Explorer to prompt for a user name and password in the intranet zone, you will get a prompt to login at this point.

The next screen shows you a list of publishing tasks. We have not defined any so the list is empty for now (see the section Creating Publishing Tasks for a discussion on creating and using publishing tasks). Click Next to continue...