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Thursday, May 12, 2005 1:21 PM

MCMS tip of the day - revert posting to previous version

Most of you might have experienced the problem that a posting needs to be rolled back to a previous version - either because the author accidentily modified a wrong one or because the editor decides that the changes are not acceptable and rejects the
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Wednesday, May 11, 2005 1:22 PM

MCMS tip of the day - how to avoid ugly URLs in MCMS

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. The following articles discuss different ways to address this: http://blogs.technet.com/stefan_gossner/archive/2004/04/23/118623.aspx
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Tuesday, May 10, 2005 12:28 PM

MCMS Tip of the day - quick things to check when you experience high memory levels in ASP.NET

Michael Graham has written a great article about quick troubleshooting for high memory ASP.NET issues: The only point I don't agree with - in context with MCMS - is about process recylcling. For MCMS it is very bad if the worker process gets recycled
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Monday, May 09, 2005 3:06 PM

MCMS tip of the day - custom properties for every object

Ever thought about adding custom properties to resource galleries or resource gallery items? Then you will have noticed that MCMS does not support this. Andrew Connell a MCMS MVPs has written a nice and very flexible solution for this problem: http://andrewconnell.com/blog/articles/CustomPropertyDbEx.asp
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Monday, May 02, 2005 6:50 AM

MCMS tip of the day - implementing a content rating system for your MCMS site

Ever wanted to build a content rating system for your site? There are a number of ways that this can be accomplished. Luke has written great article on how to implement this: http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/articles/96476.aspx
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Friday, April 29, 2005 4:19 AM

MCMS tip of the day - creating printer friendly version of your MCMS postings

A common requested feature is to add a link to a posting to show the posting in a printer ready manner where tables are removed or reformatted and the layout better fits to a printed page. A great article covering different ways to achieve this is covered
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Wednesday, April 27, 2005 6:41 AM

MCMS tip of the day - demo site for MCMS and Connector for SharePoint technologies

MCMS ships with a single sample site: Woodgrove. But neither MCMS nor the Connector contains a ready to use sample site for the SharePoint Connector stuff. But on GotDotNet there is actually a demo site for Microsoft Content Management Server, with or
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Tuesday, April 26, 2005 6:32 AM

MCMS tip of the day - using standard Toolbar dialogs in custom placeholder controls

When developing a custom placeholder control an often requested feature is to be able to utilize the standard web author dialogs. E.g. if you need to implement a placeholder control that should allow the user to pick one or many resource gallery items
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Monday, April 25, 2005 5:53 AM

MCMS tip of the day - recovering deleted resources

Ever had the problem that you needed to do housekeeping on your MCMS database? Lots of space is often used by resources in resource galleries. So a good idea is to ensure that only used resource gallery items keep stored in the database. MCMS does not
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Friday, April 22, 2005 6:40 AM

MCMS tip of the day - mapping two host names to the same channel

After enabling the "map channel name to host header name" feature in MCMS you quickly will run into the problem that the only way to access your web site from now on will be to use the configured hostname - means the name of the root channel. This can
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Thursday, April 21, 2005 8:24 AM

MCMS tip of the day - SSL protection for MCMS channels

Ever thought about protecting parts of your MCMS site with SSL? In IIS you can enforce this for virtual directories by setting a flag that this virtual directory is only allowed to be viewed with SSL but how can you achieve this with MCMS? The following
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Tuesday, April 19, 2005 8:57 AM

MCMS tip of the day - staging an ASP.NET based MCMS site

The Site Stager component shipped with MCMS only allows staging of a ASP based MCMS site - not of an ASP.NET based site. Although it often would not make sense to get a static snapshot of a dynamic MCMS website, there can be reasons that require to get
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Monday, April 18, 2005 2:15 PM

MCMS tip of the day - exporting resource galleries using SiteDeployment Script

Ever had a need to export resources from a resource gallery using script? Then you will have seen that MCMS does not provide this feature out of the box. A workaround for this problem can be found here .
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Friday, April 15, 2005 4:30 AM

MCMS tip of the day - search controls for MCMS

As already mentioned two days ago every good website should have an option to search the content of the site. Although MCMS does not ship it's own search engine you can easily integrated 3rd party search engines with MCMS. Especially to integrate with
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Thursday, April 14, 2005 4:53 AM

MCMS tip of the day - customizing authoring connector

Authoring connector as being shipped in the package allows to publish content from a Word document but it in a not very flexible manner: you can choose to publish a selected part of the document or the whole document to an (Office)HtmlPlaceholder object
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