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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

An Author-Editor-Moderator Workflow


We have worked out the scenarios as the posting moves along the workflow process from the author to the editor. Let us now shift our focus onto the last group of people that influence the workflow, moderators.

Moderators Approve Changes to Posting Properties, not Content

In most MCMS workflow diagrams, moderators are placed right after editors in the workflow process. While not entirely wrong, it may give the misleading impression that a three-level workflow process can be achieved simply by assigning moderators to a channel.

The truth is that they are not always activated. Moderators are triggered only when:

  • New postings are created

  • Postings are moved or copied to a different location

  • Properties of the posting have been amended, such as:

    • Name

    • Display Name

    • Start Date

    • End Date

    • Important Page

    • Hide When Published

    • Web Robots Can Crawl Links

    • Web Robots Can Index This Page

They are not triggered when:

  • Changes are made to placeholder content within the posting

  • Changes are...