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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

Summary


In this chapter, we have seen how authors can publish content from Word directly to an MCMS site using Authoring Connector. Allowing your authors to continue using the tool they are already familiar with increases their acceptance of the product as well as lowering their learning curve and cranking up their productivity.

We started by creating a template for a new section of the site, which we called Columns. Next, we discussed how Authoring Connector decides which placeholder to fill in when it updates a posting. We were then ready to convert an existing Word document to a posting, using Authoring Connector. We went on to show how easily updates and replacements can be accomplished.

We also saw how formatting can be preserved by transferring the styles used in the Word document over to the template file.

Finally, we looked at how Authoring Connector can be automated and customized using Publishing Tasks. Destination channels and templates can be predefined to prevent authors from posting...