Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server : A Fast-Paced and Practical Tutorial Guide for C# Developers Starting Out with MCMS 2002

, by Mei Ying, Lim; Ward, Joel; Gosner, Stefan

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Introduction

(6)

Overview of Microsoft Content Management Server

(18)

Why Content Management?

(1)

The Solution---Content Management Servers

(1)

The Components of MCMS

(1)

MCMS is a Content Server

(4)

How MCMS Renders Content

(2)

How to Locate the MCMS ISAPI Filters

(1)

Security Service

(1)

MCMS Is a Content Repository

(1)

MCMS Integrates with Visual Studio .NET

(1)

.NET Framework

(1)

Integration with other Microsoft Server Products

(1)

Publishing API

(1)

MCMS Is a Web Authoring Tool

(2)

Web Author

(1)

Authoring Connector

(1)

What Authors can do with MCMS Web Authoring Tools

(1)

MCMS is a Website Manager

(2)

MCMS Enables Deployment of Content Across Systems

(1)

What Microsoft Content Management Server Is Not

(1)

MCMS Objects

(3)

Channels

(1)

Postings

(1)

Resource Galleries

(1)

Resources

(1)

Template Galleries

(1)

Templates

(1)

Roles and Rights Groups

(1)

Users

(1)

Summary

(2)

Installing MCMS 2002 for the Developer

(26)

Pre-Installation Checklist for the Developer

(14)

Ensuring that the Computer Meets the Minimum Hardware Requirements

(1)

Running Windows Update

(1)

Configuring Internet Information Services (IIS)

(2)

Ensuring that Internet Explorer is Version 6.0 or Above

(1)

Installing Microsoft Visual Studio .NET 2002 or 2003

(1)

Installing Microsoft SQL Server 2000

(2)

Deciding on an MCMS System Account

(1)

Creating the MCMS Database in SQL Server 2000

(1)

Creating the MCMS Web and Server Configuration Application Entry Points (Windows 2000 Server and Windows Server 2003 only)

(3)

Installing Internet Explorer Web Controls

(1)

Installing the Visual J# Redistributable

(1)

Setting the Maximum Size for Uploaded Resources and Site Deployment (Windows Server 2003 only)

(1)

Ensuring that the Account Running the ASP.NET Process has Impersonation Privileges

(1)

Considerations for Windows XP with Service Pack 2

(1)

Installing Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 with SP1a

(5)

Installing from the Released To Manufacturing version of MCMS

(2)

Applying SP1a on the RTM version of MCMS

(1)

What has been Installed on My Computer?

(1)

New Additions to the Start Menu

(1)

Additional Items in the File System

(1)

New Service Available

(1)

New Keys in the System Registry

(1)

Frequently Asked Questions

(2)

Summary

(2)

The Database Configuration Application

(16)

The DCA Links MCMS Server to the Database

(1)

The DCA Toggles between Databases

(1)

Running the DCA for the First Time

(10)

Final Steps

(1)

Connecting to an Existing MCMS Database

(1)

DCA---Behind the Scenes

(2)

New Virtual Directories in Internet Service Manager

(1)

Additional Database Tables

(1)

Additional Stored Procedures

(1)

Background Processing

(1)

Additional Keys in the Registry

(1)

Addition to the Start Menu

(1)

Summary

(2)

The Server Configuration Application

(18)

Starting the SCA

(2)

Launching SCA from a Remote Machine

(1)

About the MCMS Host, Version, and Database

(1)

MCMS Host

(1)

MCMS Version

(1)

MCMS Database

(1)

General Settings

(1)

URL Format

(1)

Map Channel Names to Host Header Names

(1)

Cache Settings

(3)

Configuring Cache Settings

(2)

Web Settings

(2)

Access Settings

(6)

Modifying the List of Domains

(1)

Security Settings

(1)

MCMS System Account

(4)

License Settings

(1)

Summary

(2)

Setting Up a Website from Scratch

(28)

Laying the Foundations

(1)

Designing and Building the Channel Structure

(6)

Channel Naming Guidelines

(1)

It's All for Display

(1)

The Channel Structure

(4)

Designing and Building the Template and Resource Gallery Structure

(19)

Designing the Gallery Structure for Authors

(1)

Building Template Galleries with Site Manager

(2)

Building Resource Galleries with Site Manager

(2)

Creating the TropicalGreen Project in Visual Studio .NET

(4)

What the MCMS Project Creation Wizard Does

102

(2)

Setting the Authentication Mode

104

(1)

Setting up a Multi-Developer Environment

105

(6)

Summary

111

(2)

Creating Templates and Postings

113

(14)

Something About Templates

113

(1)

MCMS Template Files

114

(1)

Template Gallery Items

114

(1)

Before We Begin

114

(1)

Creating the Plant Template File

115

(1)

Editing the Template File

116

(2)

Adding the Default Console

117

(1)

Creating a Template Gallery Item

118

(3)

Viewing the MCMS Template Explorer

118

(1)

Creating the Plant Template Gallery Item

119

(1)

Linking the Template Gallery Item to the ASPX Template

119

(1)

Saving the Template Gallery Item

120

(1)

Checking In the Template Gallery Item

121

(1)

Creating the First Posting

121

(4)

Opening the Built-In Channel Rendering Script

121

(1)

Creating a New Page

122

(3)

The Difference between a Template File and a Regular ASP.NET Web Form

125

(1)

Summary

126

(1)

Working with Placeholders

127

(28)

Using Placeholders

128

(2)

Placeholder Controls

128

(1)

Placeholder Definitions

129

(1)

Placeholder Objects

130

(1)

Before We Begin

130

(1)

Drafting the Prototype

131

(1)

HtmlPlaceholder

132

(10)

Adding an HtmlPlaceholderDefinition

133

(2)

Properties of the HtmlPlaceholderDefinition

135

(3)

HtmlPlaceholderControls

138

(1)

Adding an HtmlPlaceholderControl

139

(1)

Linking the Placeholder Control to the Placeholder Definition

140

(1)

Properties of an HtmlPlaceholderControl

141

(1)

AttachmentPlaceholder

142

(4)

Adding an AttachmentPlaceholderDefinition to the Template

143

(1)

AttachmentPlaceholderDefinition Properties

144

(1)

SingleAttachmentPlaceholderControl

144

(1)

Adding a SingleAttachmentPlaceholderControl

145

(1)

ImagePlaceholders

146

(4)

Adding an ImagePlaceholderDefinition to the Template

146

(1)

ImagePlaceholderDefinition Properties

147

(1)

SingleImagePlaceholderControl

148

(1)

Adding a SingleImagePlaceholderControl

148

(1)

SingleImagePlaceholderControl Properties

149

(1)

The Completed Page

150

(1)

Linking a Stylesheet to the Template File

151

(2)

Summary

153

(2)

Debugging Template Files

155

(12)

Before We Begin

155

(2)

Enable Debugging on the TropicalGreen Project

157

(1)

Debugging the Template File: The Wrong Way

158

(2)

Attempting to Test the Plant.aspx Template File: The Wrong Way

158

(2)

Debugging the Template File: The Correct Way

160

(2)

Debugging with a Debug Start Page

160

(2)

Debugging by Starting from a URL

162

(3)

Debugging by Attaching the Debugger to the ASP.NET Worker Process

163

(2)

Solving the Problem

165

(1)

Removing Breakpoints

166

(1)

Summary

166

(1)

Default Postings and Channel Rendering Scripts

167

(20)

Default Postings

168

(7)

Using Site Manager to Assign the Default Posting Name

168

(2)

When There Are No Postings in the Channel with the Default Posting's Name

170

(1)

When More Than One Posting Has the Default Posting's Name

170

(1)

Coding the Summary Page

170

(5)

Channel Rendering Scripts

175

(9)

Creating a Channel Rendering Script

175

(2)

Testing the Channel Rendering Script

177

(1)

When a Channel Rendering Script Meets a Default Posting

177

(2)

Channel Rendering Scripts are used to `Frame' a Page

179

(5)

Navigation URL

184

(1)

Wrapping up the Summary Page

184

(2)

Tips and Tricks

186

(1)

Summary

186

(1)

Understanding the MCMS Publishing Workflow

187

(32)

The Eight User Roles in MCMS

187

(1)

Rights Groups Organize Users

188

(1)

Rights Groups are Assigned to Containers

189

(2)

The Complete Publishing Workflow when a Posting is Created

191

(1)

Before We Begin

192

(2)

Creating Local Accounts for TropicalGreen Users

193

(1)

Setting up the Environment for Testing

193

(1)

Creating Rights Groups

194

(2)

Assigning Users to Rights Groups

196

(2)

Assigning Rights Groups to Containers

198

(3)

Method 1: The Properties Dialog of the Selected Container

198

(2)

Method 2: The Groups Rights Tab

200

(1)

An Authors-Only Workflow

201

(4)

201

(1)

Edit the Hibiscus Posting as Author1

202

(1)

Authors Can Only Edit Postings They Own

203

(1)

Submitting a Posting

204

(1)

An Author-Editor Workflow

205

(6)

Assign Editors to the PlantCatalog Channel

206

(1)

Author Submits a Posting to the Editor

206

(1)

What Editors See in the Web Author Console

207

(1)

Editor Declines Posting

208

(1)

Editor Approves Posting

209

(1)

Editor Edits Posting

209

(1)

Editor Submits Posting

210

(1)

Editors Do Not Get Triggered When Authors Change the Properties of a Posting

210

(1)

An Author-Editor-Moderator Workflow

211

(7)

Moderators Approve Changes to Posting Properties, not Content

211

(1)

Assign Moderators to the PlantCatalog Channel

212

(1)

Author Submits a Posting

213

(1)

Editor Approves a Posting

214

(1)

What Moderators See in the Web Author Console

214

(1)

Moderator Declines Posting

215

(1)

Moderator Approves Posting

215

(1)

Moderator Submits Posting

216

(2)

Deleting Postings

218

(1)

One Last Thing

218

(1)

Summary

218

(1)

Authoring with Microsoft Content Management Server

219

(46)

How Users Edit Postings

219

(1)

The Default Web Author Console

220

(15)

Investigating the Web Author Console

220

(15)

Editing the Hibiscus Posting

235

(12)

Start Editing

235

(1)

Adding HTML Content

236

(6)

Adding Pictures

242

(2)

Adding Attachments

244

(3)

Publishing the Changed Posting

247

(1)

Creating a New Plant Posting

248

(2)

Managing Workflow

250

(3)

Using the Production Manager

250

(1)

Using the Approval Assistant

251

(2)

Revisions

253

(4)

Using the Revision History

253

(2)

Viewing Revisions by Date

255

(1)

Clearing the Revision History

256

(1)

Managing Resources

257

(6)

Adding Resources to the Resource Gallery

257

(3)

Using Shared Resources in Postings

260

(1)

Replacing Resources

261

(1)

Deleting Resources

262

(1)

Summary

263

(2)

The Publishing Application Programming Interface

265

(40)

Setting Up the Work Area

266

(1)

The Namespaces

267

(1)

Accessing Objects

268

(13)

Getting a Reference to the Current CmsHttpContext

270

(1)

Getting the Root Channel

271

(1)

Getting the Values of Object Properties

272

(2)

Moving Down the Hierarchy

274

(2)

Moving Up the Hierarchy

276

(2)

Using GetByRelativePath() to Access other Objects

278

(2)

Getting the Current Channel or Posting

280

(1)

Using the Searches Class to Reference Any Object

281

(7)

Searches.GetByPath()

284

(2)

Searches.GetByGuid()

286

(2)

Searches.GetByUrl()

288

(1)

Accessing Placeholder Content

288

(15)

The AttachmentPlaceholder

291

(3)

The HtmlPlaceholder

294

(2)

The ImagePlaceholder

296

(2)

Detecting when Placeholders are Empty

298

(5)

Summary

303

(2)

Building Navigation Controls

305

(30)

Common Navigation Controls

305

(11)

Web User Controls Promote Design Consistency

307

(1)

A Simple Menu---Creating the Top Menu Web User Control

307

(2)

Changing the Display Name of the TropicalGreen Channel

309

(1)

Using Channel Custom Properties to Differentiate Between Top and Right Menu Items

310

(3)

Filtering the Top Menu

313

(3)

Menus with JavaScript---Creating the Right Menu Web User Control

316

(8)

The First-Level Menu Items

317

(2)

The Second-Level Menu Items

319

(4)

Working with External URLs

323

(1)

A BreadCrumb Control

324

(3)

Generating the Entire Site Map---A TreeView Control

327

(6)

Adding the First Node

330

(1)

Building the Rest of the Tree Recursively

331

(1)

Creating the SiteMap Page

332

(1)

Summary

333

(2)

Customizing Placeholder Controls

335

(30)

Before We Begin

336

(2)

Creating the TropicalGreenControlLib Project

336

(1)

Adding References to the TropicalGreenControlLib Project

337

(1)

Deriving from the BasePlaceholderControl Class

338

(10)

About the BasePlaceholderControl Class

338

(2)

Building a Single-Line TextBox Placeholder Control

340

(7)

Populating a Custom Control with Default Content

347

(1)

Deriving from the MCMS Placeholder Controls

348

(5)

Building the AlignedImagePlaceholderControl

349

(2)

Adding the AlignedImagePlaceholderControl to the Plant Template File

351

(2)

Wrapping up the AlignedImagePlaceholderControl

353

(1)

Using PresentationTemplates

353

(4)

Building a Presentation Template for Flash Content

354

(3)

Creating Custom Placeholder Controls for the XmlPlaceholder

357

(7)

Properties of the Xml Placeholder Definition

358

(1)

Building a CheckBoxListPlaceholderControl

359

(5)

Summary

364

(1)

Building Custom Placeholder Definitions and Placeholders

365

(20)

Why Build Custom Placeholder Definitions?

365

(1)

Before We Begin

366

(1)

Adding the Required References to the Project

366

(1)

Setting the Version of the Project

367

(1)

The HtmlStrippingPlaceholderDefinition / HtmlStrippingPlaceholder Pair

367

(7)

The HtmlStrippingPlaceholderDefinition

368

(3)

The HtmlStrippingPlaceholder

371

(3)

Making the Placeholder Definition Available to Template Designers

374

(1)

Registering the Placeholder Definition Assembly in the GAC

374

(1)

Adding the HtmlStrippingPlaceholderDefinition to the Publishing.config File

375

(1)

Adding the HtmlStrippingPlaceholderDefinition to the Template

375

(3)

The HtmlStrippingPlaceholderControl Class

378

(4)

Trying it Out

382

(1)

Summary

383

(2)

Extending the Workflow

385

(28)

Before We Begin

386

(1)

MCMS Publishing Events

386

(1)

Registering Event Handlers

387

(1)

Monitoring Workflow Events

388

(7)

Sequence of Events Raised when Creating a New Page

390

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when a Page is Saved

391

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when a Page is Submitted, Approved, or Declined

392

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when a Page is Copied

393

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when a Page is Deleted

393

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when a Page is Moved

394

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when Updating Page Property/Custom Property Values

394

(1)

Sequence of Events Raised when Updating Channel Properties

395

(1)

E-mail Notification

395

(11)

The Notification Class

396

(6)

The Approved Event Handler

402

(2)

The Declined Event Handler

404

(2)

Canceling an Operation

406

(4)

Preventing Authors from Saving Pages with Identical Names

406

(2)

Avoiding Recursive Loops

408

(1)

Preventing Deletes

409

(1)

Generic Event Handlers

410

(1)

Summary

411

(2)

Publishing with Authoring Connector

413

(30)

Before We Begin

413

(1)

Installing Authoring Connector

414

(3)

Columns

417

(1)

Building the Column Template

418

(3)

Creating the Template Object

418

(1)

Creating the Template File

419

(2)

The OfficeHtmlPlaceholder and OfficeAttachmentPlaceholder Definitions

421

(2)

Publishing from Microsoft Word

423

(7)

Updating the Page

430

(2)

Replacing Any Page

432

(1)

Submitting Selected Text

433

(2)

Maintaining a Consistent Look and Feel

435

(3)

Reducing the Spacing between Line Breaks

437

(1)

Changing the Server Name

438

(2)

Changing the Server Name for Hundreds of Documents

439

(1)

Creating Publishing Tasks

440

(2)

Modifying the Location of PublishingTasks.xml and PublishingTasks.xsd

442

(1)

Summary

442

(1)

Implementing Forms Authentication

443

(22)

About Forms Authentication

443

(3)

How It Works

444

(2)

Configuring IIS to Allow Anonymous Access

446

(1)

Configure Settings in the Web.config File

447

(2)

Creating the Login Page

449

(4)

Logging on to the Site

453

(1)

The CmsFormsAuthentication Class

454

(1)

What's in the Cookie

455

(1)

When Users Do Not Have Rights to View the Requested Page

455

(1)

When the Cookie is Deleted or No Longer Valid

456

(1)

Welcoming Guests to the Site

457

(2)

Determining or Creating the MCMS Guest Account

457

(1)

Turning on Guest Access in the SCA

458

(1)

Assign the Guest Account Subscriber Rights

458

(1)

Visiting the Site as a Guest

459

(1)

Creating a Login/Logout Button for Authors

460

(2)

Creating a Login Channel for Authors

462

(1)

Summary

463

(2)

Customizing the Web Author Console

465

(34)

Before We Begin

466

(1)

The Different Faces of the Web Author Console

466

(1)

The Console in the Seven Modes of the Web Author Context

466

(1)

Using the PAPI to Determine the Current Web Author Context Mode

467

(1)

Building Blocks of the Web Author Console

467

(4)

Changing the Look and Feel of the Default Console

471

(2)

Changing Colors

472

(1)

Changing Fonts

472

(1)

Changing Text on Action Controls

472

(1)

Changing Action Controls from Hyperlinks to Buttons

473

(1)

Removing Controls from the List

473

(1)

Adding Custom Action Controls to the Console

473

(15)

Inheriting from a BaseAction Class

474

(3)

Inheriting from a BasePostbackAction Class

477

(5)

Releasing the Ownership of a Posting

482

(3)

Inheriting from the BaseNewWindowAction Class

485

(3)

Modifying Existing Actions

488

(10)

Declining with Reason

489

(3)

Identifying the Person Who First Edited a Posting

492

(6)

Summary

498

(1)

Creating Connected Templates and Pages

499

(26)

About Connected Templates and Postings

500

(2)

Connected Templates

500

(1)

Connected Postings

501

(1)

Before We Begin

502

(1)

Creating Connected Templates

503

(6)

The First Template

503

(4)

The Connected Template

507

(2)

Creating Connected Postings

509

(6)

Creating the Original Posting

509

(1)

Creating the Connected Posting

510

(5)

Going to a Connected Page

515

(3)

Connected Postings Share Workflow Processes

518

(2)

Submission or Approval of a Posting Submits or Approves all Connected Postings

518

(1)

Connected Postings Follow the Workflow of the Posting that has been Submitted/Approved

518

(2)

Alternatives to Connected Postings

520

(4)

Creating Printer-Friendly Pages with Template Switching

521

(3)

Summary

524

(1)

Aggregating Content

525

(12)

Create the Channel Rendering Script

526

(10)

Adding the Summary of Sections

528

(2)

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