Advanced Microsoft Content Management Server MCMS: Working with the Publishing API, Placeholders, Search, Web Services, RSS, and Sharepoint Integration

This book has the most in depth-coverage of important MCMS development topics found anywhere. Each author of the book is a renowned expert in the area

• Learn directly from recognized community experts
• Extensive coverage of the Publishing API (PAPI)
• Get Sharepoint and MCMS working together
• InfoPath, RSS and hot topics covered

In Detail

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. Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server (SPS) also features in the book. SPS 2003 enables enterprises to deploy an intelligent portal that seamlessly connects users, teams, and knowledge so that people can take advantage of relevant information across business processes to help them work more efficiently.

You've mastered the basics of MCMS, and setup your own MCMS installation. You've only scratched the surface. This book is your gateway to squeezing every penny from your investment in MCMS and SPS, and making these two applications work together to provide an outstanding richness of content delivery and easy maintainability.

As a developer, the Publishing API (PAPI) is at the heart of your work with MCMS, and this book starts by taking you on the most detailed tour of the PAPI you will find anywhere. As a live example, a component that reveals the structure of your MCMS site is created, taking you through how to manage the common elements of MCMS programmatically.

Getting SharePoint and MCMS to work together is the next stop in the book. You will see how to use SharePoint's search engine to search MCMS content, publish content between the two systems, and create SharePoint Web Parts to draw content from MCMS.

To ease your everyday work with MCMS, there are chapters on placeholder validation, and some useful custom placeholders for common MCMS tasks, such as a date-time picker, a placeholder for multiple attachments, and a DataGrid placeholder among others.

There are a number of ways to consume MCMS content from the outside world, and we look at two exciting ways here; RSS and InfoPath/Web Services. The InfoPath solution provides another interface to MCMS content that allows content authors to concentrate on content and not the presentation.

What you will learn from this book?

• Extensive coverage of the Publishing API (PAPI)
• Managing Channels and Postings with the PAPI
• Managing Templates, Template Galleries, Resources, and Users with the PAPI
• Getting Sharepoint and MCMS to work together
• Publishing content between MCMS and SharePoint
• Preparing postings for search indexing
• Creating Sharepoint Web Parts to display MCMS data
• Creating powerful custom Placeholder Controls
• Adding validation to Placeholder Controls
• Combining InfoPath, Web Services and MCMS's robust content repository
• Using RSS to syndicate content from your site, and display content from other sites
• Staging static versions of your pages
• A further 60 pages of invaluable MCMS tips and tricks

Who this book is written for?

This book is written for developers who want to the skills to fully exploit the power of MCMS and SPS. The book presumes a working knowledge of MCMS, the .NET Framework and familiarity with the C# language. All the code examples are in C#.