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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

Chapter 11. Authoring with Microsoft Content Management Server

Now that the basic components of your website are in place, including the Plant template and the PlantCatalog channel rendering script, we are ready to add content to the site.

The MCMS Web Author is a powerful tool for managing content in an MCMS website. It's a complete package that includes:

  • A Web Author Console that lists a series of action buttons for managing postings and channels

  • Dialogs to aid the authoring process

We will start by looking at the Web Author Console and its various options. Next, we will see how easy it is for authors to edit/create postings, insert images, add attachments, and publish changes. We will move on to look at how the Web Author provides useful tools for editors and moderators to manage unfinished postings and postings that are in the approval workflow. To complete the section, we will play the role of resource managers and add, edit, replace, and delete resources from resource galleries.