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.aspx
MCMS makes it easy to create content for a web site. Everyone non-technical person can create articles using web author. And using Image and placeholder controls it is also very simple for them to add images to the page. Everyone familiar with websites knows that only certain image formats are supported for websites: JPEG, GIF, […]
I just found a hint in the MCMS newsgroup about instructions for integrating Coveo Search into a MCMS website. Coveo Search is an interesting product especially for small sites as it is free of charge for up to 5000 items! http://www.coveo.com/support/techcorner/MCMSSearchBoxIntegration.htm
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
[Via Nick] Metalogix Migration Manager can now integrate seamlessly with RAPID so that customers can port content programmatically from existing sites (MCMS or other) into their new RAPID-based sites.
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 in the following article from Luke: http://blogs.msdn.com/luke/articles/94644.aspx
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 without the Connector for SharePoint Technologies. It includes the following: Basic CMS authoring, editing, […]
[Via BillCan] We’re always telling you how important anti-virus and firewall software is for securing your home PC – the Internet is a dangerous place for unprotected PCs. Spencer Kelly met up with a reformed ex-hacker, who gave him a demonstration of just how much damage a worm or virus can do to your home […]
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 or to add a hyperlink to a posting or channel. The placeholder […]
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 provide a public API to identify which resources are […]
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 cause serious problems in case you […]
When designing a MCMS website where forms authentication is the option to go to authenticate users it is very common that the login dialog should be included in a posting. This will require that guest account is enabled for the site – otherwise the channel holding the posting that holds the login form could not […]
