Sharepoint Portal Server 2007 - Content Management

-Introduction

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Agenda Agenda Publishing Web Pages and how they work Branding your web site Authoring content in your site Creating variations of your site's contents

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Page Rendering

A typical page render: Welcome.aspx page is requested 2. Page layout associated with page is retrieved 3. Master page associated with site is retrieved 4. Controls in page layout render content from page’s fields into the page Inherited from

ttp://website/news/pages/welcome.aspx 1. MasterPage .master PageLayout .aspx

Title Field Control

Image

Date Field Control Field Control

ByLine

Body

Field Control Field Control

Field Control

WSS

FileName Welcome.aspx

Versioning Check-in&out Content PageLayout Title Body Imagetypes Access PageLayout.aspx Welcome To News Lorem ipsum dolor sit ... /Images/Chair.jpg control SharePoint Portal Server 2007Content

Workflow 2 Stage Undelete Link Fix-up etc.

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Portal Data Model  Portals are a collection of WSS Webs  The Webs are arranged in a hierarchy  Hierarchy controls navigation and security

 SPS2003 Areas, MCMS2002 Channels are now all based on the WSS

Webs construct for containership  MCMS2002 Postings are now pages in a document library  Each Web has a document library for pages  MCMS2002 .aspx Templates are now page layouts in the Master Page Gallery

Home (web)

= Pages library

(Doc library)

Products (web)Services (web)About Us (web) (Doc library)

(Doc library)

Product A (web) Product B (web) (Doc library)

(Doc library)

(Doc library)

News (web) (Doc library)

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Branding And Chrome  Web Pages in Office 12  ASP.NET 2.0 master pages are used to control look

and feel of the website  There are several types of pages in a portal site 

Content pages (customized with custom.master)  

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Templatized landing and article pages Untemplatized pages

Application Pages  

Forms Pages (customized with application.master) _layouts pages (style overrides only)

 Alternate CSS setting allows for CSS overrides

independent of master page used

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What Goes In A Master Page?

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<SPSWC: <SharePoint:HighlightMenu …> RightBodySectionSearchBox …>

Navigation Logos Search Box Login control Editing controls CSS references …any other control you build

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Page Layouts provide the schema  Content types  Define the available fields for a particular type of page

 Page Layouts provide the template for rendering  Reference a master page for global navigation

and chrome  May include:   

Field controls that are bound to the fields in the content type Web Parts that can be used by authors Web Part zones to give page authors flexibility to add content outside of the pages schema

 Custom server controls

 Can have many layouts per content type

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Page Layouts And  Page Layouts respect the master page’s Branding Define what can be authored in the page, and how 

much control the author has in each section  Offer a lot or a little control to the page author

Image Field Control Summary Link Field Control

HTML field control

Web Part Zone

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Authoring Content 

Fundamentals

Authors know how to create content, but have trouble making it match the look and feel of the site Authors use page layouts created by site designers to create great looking, consistent pages in the web site

Authoring tools Web-based authoring Smart client authoring

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 Custom field types andAuthoring field controls Web-Based  Full HTML editor (with optional constraints)

 Image, link, and summary link controls with pickers

 Web Parts  Summary links – quickly author, style, and organize links

on a page  Table of contents – data-driven views of navigation  Content Query – data driven view of content across your site

 Web Part zones  Allow author more flexibility at the expense

of enforced layout consistency

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Internet Presence Enterprise Portal HR, Finance, etc. Team Collaboration Personal

More adhoc

More constrained

Web parts and web part zones Authors free to add or reorganize parts on page

Field controls with no restrictions

Field controls with restrictions enabled Must use CSS styles Must pick images from inside site

Little to no usage of web part zones

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Extending In-Context Authoring  Page editing bar  XML file defines links, assembly

 HTML editor  Add new button to toolbar and code

 Styling and branding  HTML editor styles using CSS  Web part styles using XSL

 Custom field controls  Example: Flash/movie control

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Settings Smart Client Authoring (per CT)

Conver docx ters XML XSN

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Master document in document library is source for conversions 

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Out of box converters for Word .docx, XML, InfoPath forms

Server-side HTML conversion (XSLT-based) Extensible: converter framework with process isolation

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 Web Content Management features are built into Summary SharePoint using common pieces  Page model  Site chrome  Page layouts  Out of box features like Variations

 Lots of opportunity to extend  ASP.NET server controls and data sources on .master page  Custom field controls, web parts on page layouts  Extensible authoring experience  Custom document converters

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MCMS 2002

SharePoint Server 2007

Page/Posting

Page

Template object

Site content type

Template file

Page layout

Placeholder definition

Column template

Difference between SPPSSite 2007 and CMS 2002 Channel (SPWeb object)

Placeholder control Field control HtmlPlaceholderControl HtmlContentControl SingleImagePlaceholderControl ImageContentControl SingleAttachmentPlaceholderContr LinkControl ol Resource library

Image library

Template Gallery

Master Page and Page Layout gallery

Web Author

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Data Storage

Field Control Field in the page Listitem

Web Part WebPart Data associated with the page

Location In Page Fixed as a control in page layout

Fixed as a control in page layout In a Zone

Versioning

Versioned with page except – no historical versions

Versioned with page

Personalization No Standard Uses Content that is stored in the page

Yes Queries/Views of external content

Examples

Content Query Webpart Table of contents Webpart

Rich HTML Field Image Field Summary Links

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Any Clarifications?

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Any Clarifications?

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