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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

Updating the Page


The first time a page is published using Authoring Connector, two properties are created within the Word document. Open the Word document. From the menu bar, select File | Properties and open the Custom tab of the Properties dialog.

You will see two new entries:

  • CmsServerUrl contains a string that points to the server-side component, usually in the form http://servername/mcms/cms/officeWizard/oc.aspx

  • CmsPostingGuid stores the GUID of the MCMS posting

The CmsServerUrl and CmsPostingGuid property values are used by Authoring Connector when you decide to update the document in your MCMS repository.

To update the document and submit it for publishing, follow these steps:

  1. With the Word document opened, select File | Send to MCMS | Update Same Page from the menu bar.

  2. At the Welcome screen, click Next.

  3. You are immediately brought to the Page Properties dialog. Notice that Authoring Connector skips the Publishing Tasks, Channel Information, and Template Information dialogs. It already...