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MCMS Whitepapers MCMS 2001 Backing Up and Restoring a MCMS 2001 Site Best Practices for Site Deployment Using Microsoft MSCMS Site Deployment Manager Building a Multilingual Site Using Microsoft Content Management Server Content...

IT Hit Microsoft Content Management Server 2002 (MCMS) Web Author Enhancement IT Hit MCMS Web Author Enhancement replaces 3 standard MCMS Web Author dialogs with more convenient dialogs and installs new popup console. “Insert Hyperlink”, “Copy Page” and...

A common question I received from customers is that they would like to edit property values during authoring time similar to editing placeholder content. I have previously provided a solution for this but this needs to do some coding for every property...

A common question I received from customers is that they would like to edit property values during authoring time similar to editing placeholder content. I have previously provided a solution for this but this needs to do some coding for every property...

Business Web Software introduces a tight integration between their electronic forms solution AchieveForms and Microsoft Content Management Server 2002. Users of Content Management Server 2002 can now create powerful electronic forms using AchieveForms...

Lim Mei Ying (MVP for MCMS), Joel Ward (MVP for MCMS) and myself have written a beginner book for MCMS. Building Websites with Microsoft Content Management Server A fast-paced and practical tutorial guide for C# developers starting out with MCMS 2002...

Today I wrote a generic routine which should work on all kind of sites. Unfortunatelly this specific code needed to behave differently for site where the "Map Channel names to host header names" feature of MCMS is enabled or not. So I had to find a way...

In a previous article I have discussed how to create an RSS feed for a MCMS site. So the next logical step is to discuss how a RSS feed can be agregated in a MCMS site - and it should be possible that content authors can configure the Feed Url and other...

In a previous article I have discussed how to create an RSS feed for a MCMS site. So the next logical step is to discuss how a RSS feed can be agregated in a MCMS site - and it should be possible that content authors can configure the Feed Url and...

...that Spencers MCMS resource site has moved! It can now be found at the following url: http://www.mcmsfaq.com . This site has compiled information about all kind of topics related to MCMS. Step by and have a look! You can also subscribe...

MCMS Site Deployment API does not have a method to export Resource Galleries. Only resources (and related galleries) which are bound to an exported posting can be exported using the API. A workaround for this is to create a helper posting that links...

Andrew Connell wrote an article about using SharePoint Search in an ASP.NET application with noise filtering http://andrewconnell.com/blog/archive/2004/07/15/406.aspx

Emmanuel Desigaud has written a paper that shows how to integrate SharePoint Server 2003 Search into a MCMS site using a WebService.

A problem I have been confronted serveral times is that authors have problems to save pages because the content of the page is refering to a resource gallery item that has been deleted in the past. Usually deleting such resource gallery items should...

I received some feedback about my CmsSslHttpModule . Some tried to use this module together with my CmsNiceUrlHttpModule . The result: when the CmsSslHttpModule switches between http and https the URLs did not change to the friendly URLs. I analyzed the...

The HtmlPlaceholderControl shipped with MCMS is often not satisfying for users. Microsoft now sponsors the powerful Telerik r.a.d. editor control. See here for details: http://markharrison.europe.webmatrixhosting.net/posts/394.aspx

Microsoft Office SharePoint Portal Server 2003 and TechNet Present: The Summer of SharePoint - Webcast Series: Migration, Deployment, Integration and Customization Get in-depth information on SharePoint Portal Server 2003 deployment, migration...

Microsoft® Solution for Internet Business (MSIB) is an integrated solution that uses high-quality Microsoft® Windows Server System™ servers to provide end-to-end processes and features for sophisticated Internet sites. Overview...

I have already posted two articles about how to solve the "ugly" URL problem. In the last article I discussed a solution based on a custom http module which does all the necessary checks and adjustments. But one issue is still unsolved: Internet Explorer...

Today I had a chance to meet Robert Scoble and his wife Maryam for dinner at his house. Robert invited me after he found one of my blogs about the tour I plan to do with my girlfriend Michaela in the next couples of week. Robert, if you are "listening...

Have some of you have also been bothered by the fact that MCMS does not provide an enumeration method for Posting and Channel properties? Or for some of the other MCMS objects like Resources, Resource Galleries, Template or Template Galleries? Such a...

MCMS allows editing of placeholder content by shipping placeholder control. But to edit property content it is necessary to first save the page and then open the property page and modify the content manually. In addition using the property page will allow...

I have seen several posts in the newsgroup where people suggested to use the DataSource.RawContent property to access the content of a placeholder. This method is highly not recommended! It completly bypasses the internal processing if the actual placeholder...

This is the first time since more than one year that I will not have internet access and will not be able to answer MCMS newsgroup questions. I hope you guys are able to survive a month without me. ;-) But I'm sure you will. On the right you can see the...

Today I played around a little bit more with HttpModules and implemented a more elegant solution for the problem as discussed in my previous post . Especially the second problem - normal postback caused by ASP.NET controls - was not properly solved...

Today a question in the newsgroup reminded me that I never created an HttpModule on my own. I have heard about several samples for HttpModules - mainly to allow custom authentication or to provide an enhanced workflow engine but I have never written one...

I received the question if it is possible to get the current active context inside a custom placeholder definition. This is not the same as within a placeholder control as a placeholder control always uses the CmsHttpContext. A placeholder can live...

Most of the sample code I have written is in C#. To get this converted to VB.NET the following tools are very useful: http://www.aspalliance.com/aldotnet/examples/translate.aspx http://www.kamalpatel.net/ConvertCSharp2VB.aspx http://www.ragingsmurf...

Yesterday I received the question to add an RSS feed to one of our internal MCMS Web sites. At that moment I did not know more about RSS as that this blog has an RSS feed to be able to keep updated with my writings. ;-) So I searched for a document...

A very convenient way to achieve this but unfortunatelly not very good documented is used in the Default Console shipped with MCMS. To hide items (e.g. a Placeholder Control) in Presentation mode use the following code in your template ASPX file: ...

Everyday is a good day to learn something new about MCMS 2002. Today I learned that lots of custom placeholder controls I and others have written are not really necessary! The same functionality can be achieved with the standard Placeholder controls...

An often requested feature is a tool to create a static copy of MCMS Web site. CMS 2001 shipped the SiteStager tool which is also coming with CMS 2002 but it is limited to ASP based templates. ASP.NET based templates are not supported. Creating static...

In the public newsgroup I often see the question: "What is the URL to Stefan's FAQ?" The easiest way to locate the URL just go to Download Center on the Microsoft Web site and enter "Stefan" as keyword. Step-By-Step: browse to http://download...

Hi all, I had a chance to see a demo of the upcoming new version of Metalogix Migration Manager ( www.metalogix.net ) which will be available in a couple of month. I was really impressed about the feature set it will contain. Here is a list of the...

Session Title Description Date Content and Process Fusion with Content Management Server and SharePoint Portal Server http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=22984 In this webcast Teamplate will provide a live demo on their...

I often received request from customers whether the tree view or list view elements can be sorted by default. And also about complains about the fact that the default for the number of items being displayed in List View always defaults to 5 items . This...

ASP.NET output caching is a mandatory feature for all high performance Web sites. MCMS extends the ASP.NET output caching to allow caching of content based on (e.g.) the Posting and User Context. To allow this MCMS adds new token strings which can be...

MCMS 2002 only offers you the login of the current user. Not the Name or Email address. In some situations - like Email notification - it is necessary to get the Email address and other information which is stored in Active Directory. The sample...

The publishing API for MCMS 2002 has several design limitations. A workaround for one of these design limiations will be discussed in this article. The API contains a method to create a new channel but it is missing the functionality to also create...

BMP files are valid files when using Internet Explorer. But most other browser types are not able to display BMP files correct. So - in an Internet scenario - it is a good idea to prevent that BMP files can be uploaded to the MCMS Repository ...

Hi all, the legal issues with my MCMS website are now resolved and the FAQ page is up again! Together with Steve Cawood I have managed to develop a downloadable CHM version beside the standard Html version. You should check out both and decide...

In Webauthor when a new window opens (e.g. Resource Manager) the positioning and size of the window causes the lower right edge of the window to be out of the screen when Internet Explorer is run in Fullscreen mode. To solve this this issue you need...

I received lots of questions in the past about problems with workflow events. To understand what can be done in a workflow event it is helpful to know the sequence the events are fired during save, approve and any other action. The code below can be...

MCMS 2002 offers a great flexibility and extensibility due to integration in the .NET framework and the ability to create custom console actions, rich controls and most important: custom placeholder controls. MCMS 2002 already ships with 3 placeholder...

This content of this blog has moved to the following Article .

When using an Frame or an IFRAME on a MCMS2002 template you will experience a strange problem when switching to authoring mode: You will receive a Javascript 'permission denied' error. This is a small issue in the coding of Console.js causing a Cross...

There are two different reasons for ugly URL's on in presentation mode: when using Webauthor and switching to live site when doing a postback in on a form to send data to the server. There is a solution for both problems. Problem 1 requires...

Ok, that's my very first entry to this Blog. Hope you find the stuff useful I will post here. Cheers, Stefan