Tarek Yehin posted an article on how to create resource galleries programmatically. As already discussed in the past using such approachs will break the support boundaries for MCMS. A special comment to the approach in Tareks article: we had a customer this week with exactly this code in place (maybe it is the same customer?) […]
Postbacks on Firefox and Netscape browsers do not work correct This will only happen if the <base> tag rendering using the RobotMetaTag control has been disabled. As a workaround either enable the <base> tag rendering or (if this is not an option) add the following javascript code behind the form tag of your template: <script language=”javascript”> […]
The latest version of the MCMS 2002 FAQ has been uploaded to the Microsoft Website. Here are the links to access the FAQ: Html Version CHM Version (perfect as offline version)
Problem 1: Developer tools for VS.NET 2003 disappear after installing MCMS 2002 Service Pack 2 We are currently investigating this problem. As a workaround please change the user locale in regional options to US english. Problem 2: Developer Tools for VS.NET 2005 do not work with some regional settings If the regional settings are different […]
With VS.NET 2005 the VS.NET product team decided to change the behaviour of VS.NET for web applications. Up to VS.NET 2003 only virtual directories and files explicitly added to the projects were taken into consideration for the compilation. With VS.NET 2005 all virtual directories and files are taken into consideration for compilation. As the “CMS” […]
Accessibility guidelines require to ensure that alternate text (ALT attribute) is provided for images. MCMS itself does not have a method to enforce that an ALT text needs to be provided with any image added to a placeholder. The following steps will change the standard dialog of MCMS in a way that ALT text is […]
Today I received the question if it is possible to script the actions of the DCA when changing the MCMS database. This can be extremly useful in developer environments where users develop against different databases. Actually the DCA cannot be scripted but it is possible to backup and restore the configuration settings the DCA does […]
Clearing Hyperlinks does not work after installing SP2 Before installing SP2 it was possible to clear a hyperlink by selecting the hyperlink text, clicking on the hyperlink button and clearing the URL part. After installing SP2 the hyperlink is not cleared. The product team is currently building a fix for this. Workaround: remove the whole […]
Site Deployment export does not work on databases created before SP2 and moved to SQL Server 2005 This problem will occur with all databases which have been migrated from MCMS 2002 SP1a and then moved to SQL Server 2005. If you are affected by this issue please open a support case with Microsoft Support Services. […]
[Via Spencer Harbar] A number of people have requested information regarding upgrading the WoodgroveNet Sample Site to an MCMS SP2 application which uses ASP.NET 2.0 and Visual Studio 2005. Whilst the WoodgroveNet sample is not considered best practice in many areas and certainly does not demonstrate any SP2 concepts, it can be useful in assessing […]
A couple of customers reported problems when using the menu control with ASP.NET 2.0 and MCMS. After analyzing one of the affected projects I identified that the reason for the problem is that the menu control seems to have a bug. It does not work correct if the following tag is included in the web.config: […]
[via Web Content Management in Office “12”] By now many people have heard that the upcoming version of MCMS 2002 (which I’ll refer to as ‘CMS’ for the sake of this post) will be built entirely on the Windows SharePoint Services architecture (with SharePoint Portal integrating the new CMS publishing features). Gerhard Schobbe, Group Program […]
