Transcript Introducton to MOSS Web Content Management

Creating Page Layouts using SharePoint Designer
or Visual Studio
Becky Bertram
MCSD, MCAD
MCTS WSS Development
MCTS MOSS Development
www.beckybertram.com
What is Web Content Management?
 According to Wikipedia:
A Web content management system (WCMS or Web CMS) is
content management system (CMS) software, usually implemented
as a Web application, for creating and managing HTML content. It is
used to manage and control a large, dynamic collection of Web
material (HTML documents and their associated images). A WCMS
facilitates content creation, content control, editing, and many
essential Web maintenance functions.
…
Usually the software provides authoring (and other) tools designed to
allow users with little or no knowledge of programming languages or
markup languages to create and manage content with relative ease of
use.
What are the main features of a WCM solution?
 Provides a system of maintaining large amounts of
content (text), images, and associated digital assets
(such as documents, etc.) to be delivered through the
medium of the Web.
 Provides a user interface that allows non-technical
users to maintain and publish content, using predetermined templates.
 Usually involves a publishing process, whereby content
can be approved before it gets published on the site.
 Often includes an ability for web content to be
published at a certain time, and conversely removed
from the site at a particular time.
A History of MOSS 2007’s WCM Features
 Microsoft purchased a company called nCompass in 2001, and
rebranded its product Microsoft Content Management Server.
 Microsoft also released SharePoint Portal Server in 2001, as a webbased document management system and digital dashboard.
 Microsoft also released a free add-on to Office 2000, called SharePoint
Team Services, as a web-based collaboration tool.
 In 2003, Microsoft renamed STS to Windows SharePoint Services 2.0
(WSS), and merged it with SharePoint Portal Server 2003.
 In 2004, the SPS and CMS teams joined together.
 In 2007, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server was released, which
including Web Content Management tools and the WCM
infrastructure.
Taken from the following blog entry:
http://www.joiningdots.net/blog/2006/08/sharepoint-history.html
Why use MOSS for WCM?
 Built on ASP.NET 2.0 and WWF.
 SharePoint has tools available for all kinds of users,
whether they’re business users who are modifying
Publishing sites using SharePoint Designer, or Visual
Studio developers who are creating custom solutions.
 Highly scalable.
 Comes with a content deployment mechanism for
deploying web content between server environments.
The SharePoint Publishing Infrastructure
To use the Web Content Management Features, you
need to activate the Publishing Infrastructure Feature
for a Site Collection.
Among other things, this will provision custom Master
Pages, the Page Layouts infrastructure, a Site
Collection Images Library, and a Site Collection
Documents Library.
Publishing Infrastructure at the Web Level
Each SharePoint “web” must also have the Publishing
Feature activated at the Web level as well.
Activating this Feature provisions a “Pages” library,
where all the web pages for that Web will reside. In
addition, an “Images” library will be provisioned for
that Web as well.
When the Publishing feature is activated, Lists and
Libraries will no longer have a URL of
http://myurl/Lists/MyList, but will simply show up as
http://myurl/MyList.
Site Columns and Content Types
 A Site Column, in its most generic sense, is a description of
information.
 Is it text, a number, a list of choices?
 The column’s title also describes it. Is it a contact’s name, a birthday,
an employee number or what?
 A Content Type, in its most generic sense, is a collection of these
smaller definitions… a collection of columns.
 For instance, a Business Contact could have a Name column, an
Address Column, and a Customer ID column. A Sweepstakes
Winner could also have a Name and an Address, but they would
have a Winning Number field, and no Contact ID. Because the
kind of information is the same as the Business Contact, it could
share the same site columns, but the Content Type is defining a
different kind of entity than the Business Contact.
Customer Service Representative Content Type
CSR
CSR
Name
CSR
Title
CSR
Bio
Page
CSR
Photo
Typical SharePoint List View
Better Visual Presentation
Page Layouts
The term for a Publishing Page Template is a
Page Layout.
A Publishing Page Layout is the visual
representation of an underlying SharePoint
list item.
A Page Layout can allow content owners to
edit content in a way that mirrors how the
content will appear on the web site.
Editing a Publishing Page
Page Layout Content Type
Page Layout
File (ASPX
page
presentation
of content)
Associated
Content Type
Master Page Gallery
Demo
Creating a Publishing Page using SharePoint Designer
Demo
Creating a Publishing Page using Visual Studio