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Agenda What is "WCM"? WCM With MOSS Master Pages Page Layouts Navigation Aggregating & Rolling up Content Challenges - Making it Repeatable Performance Considerations & Tips

ContentManagement How Did We Get Here? BusinessIntelligence Collaboration Search Portal Business Forms Platform Services

What is “WCM” Users creating content Creating, editing within the system “publishing” (workflows, approvals, staging) Self-managing Templates & more Flexibility

MOSS WCM Sites

MOSS WCM Puzzle Pieces Master Page Content Placeholder Content Placeholder - Main Master Page Content Placeholder Content Placeholder - Main Page Layout Field Controls FCFC Content Type Field 1 Field 1 Field 2 Field 2 Field 3 Field 3 Field 4 Field 4 … Content Type Field 1 Field 1 Field 2 Field 2 Field 3 Field 3 Field 4 Field 4 … ‘Pages’ List Page 1.aspx Page 2.aspx Page 3.aspx … ‘Pages’ List Page 1.aspx Page 2.aspx Page 3.aspx …

Master Pages, Page Layouts & Content Types

Master Pages Part of ASP.Net 2.0 Centralized “look & feel” Identical in SharePoint (well, sort of...) Key component for SharePoint design Logo, Navigation, Login control, CSS references, Server controls, Search box, Editing controls, Web Parts

Page Layouts template for rendering actual content References master page Define what can be authored Field controls Web Parts Web Part zones Define author’ control over ‘look and feel’ Restrictions on field controls CSS classes

Navigation Dynamic, based on hierarchy Sites vs Site Collections Languages Keep in mind secure pages “trimmed” based on Security workflow state publishing schedule Configurable Styled using CSS Extensible Built on the.NET 2.0 Navigation Provider model Develop your own custom navigation (e.g. meta data driven)

Navigation

Implementing Custom Navigation Navigation Control Site Map Data Source Navigation “Provider”

Aggregating and Rolling up Content Common requirement - show listings of content throughout hierarchy Press releases Articles Products Publishing sites include two useful Web Parts Content query web part Table of contents web part

Rollup Web Parts

Publishing “Workflow” Author Approver Visitors

SharePoint Workflow

"Big Picture" Challenges How do you make this development process repeatable? How to automate it? What about source control? SharePoint has version control on lists and libraries No version control for infrastructure assets No version control for site pages and files What about a true software development lifecycle process? What about change management process?

"Big Picture" Challenges How do you make this development process repeatable? How to automate it? What about source control? SharePoint has version control on lists and libraries No version control for infrastructure assets No version control for site pages and files What about a true software development lifecycle process? What about change management process?

SharePoint Customization Advantages Plenty of resources WYSIWYG w/SharePoint Designer 2007 Disadvantages Items not easily moved between environments Challenging to package and deploy

Publishing sites exacerbate the challenges! All projects require sharing assets Between developers on project team Between environments (Dev / QA / UAT / Prod) How to move asset change to other environments? Manually move infrastructure and layout assets Backup / restore (*** bad bad bad option! ***) Content deployment Does not promote code reuse! Challenges in Creating Publishing Sites

Features & Solution Packages (WSPs) Advantages Developers stay in Visual Studio Layout files stay uncustomized on the server Easy to package changes Easier to utilize SCM and adhere to ALM Disadvantages SharePoint Features are tedious to build No visual designer (lots of CAML) Minimal debugging support Provisioning files requires double development Current tools do not promote this approach SharePoint Development

Features & WSPs

Performance Considerations Understand the SharePoint API Disposing objects Accessing data large lists Enable (and Tune) Caching Page Output Object BLOB Caching Minimize the page payload The usual stuff.. IIS HTTP Compression (static & dynamic) External files Headers … Core.js Lots more!

Resources Andrew Connell's Blog Andrew Connell's "WCM Reference" Microsoft WCM Team Blog MSDN –

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