The Web Content Management Challenge BrandingAuthoringControlMultilingual Content Deployment

Team Division Enterprise Extranet Internet Individual

Collaboration Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e- mail integration, project management lite, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists

Collaboration Search Portal Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model ContentManagement Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich People search Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e- mail integration, project management lite, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists

BusinessIntelligence Collaboration Search Portal Business Forms Platform Services Workspaces, Mgmt, Security, Storage, Topology, Site Model ContentManagement Server-based Excel spreadsheets and data visualization, Report Center, BI Web Parts, KPIs/Dashboards Integrated document management, records management, and Web content management with policies and workflow Rich and Web forms based front-ends, LOB actions, enterprise SSO Enterprise scalability, contextual relevance, rich people and business data search Enterprise Portal template, Site Directory, My Sites, social networking, privacy control Docs/tasks/calendars, blogs, wikis, e- mail integration, project management lite, Outlook integration, offline docs/lists

Manage complex interactions among contributors Enforce business rules Content re-use Branding Simple to find and retrieve content Web Server(s) inbound syndication outbound syndication Web Server(s) authors editors approvers developers designers Development & Staging Deployment consumer

AuthoringWeb-basedWord/InfoPathToolbarWebPartsAuthoringWeb-basedWord/InfoPathToolbarWebParts Branding Master Pages Page Layouts TemplateGovernanceBranding Master Pages Page Layouts TemplateGovernanceControlledPublishing Page Scheduling WorkflowContentDeploymentControlledPublishing WorkflowContentDeployment

Web presence is a hierarchy of Windows SharePoint Server (WSS) Sites The hierarchy defines URL and Navigation structure Each site has a library for Pages Pages are rendered by Page Layouts Pages can be branded using Master Pages Home Products A Prod B Prod About Us Services NewsContact Site Pages library

Web Pages in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server ASP.NET 2.0 master pages are used to control look and feel of the Web site There are two types of pages in a MOSS site Content pages SharePoint Application Pages Can apply different master page for each type Alternate CSS setting allows for CSS overrides independent of master page used

NavigationLogos Search box Login control Editing controls CSS references Any server control or markup Navigation Personalisation/Login Controls Search box Logos Editing controls

Rich out-of-the-box Navigation Dynamic navigation based on site hierarchy Includes webs, pages and authored links Navigation links trimmed based on security, workflow state and publishing schedule User configurable (hide sites, add links) Can be styled with CSS Extensible Built on the ASP.NET 2.0 Navigation Provider Model Built on the ASP.NET 2.0 Navigation Provider Model Build or use other custom navigation Build or use other custom navigation

Page layouts provide the template for rendering Reference a master page for global navigation and chrome Define what can be authored in the page Field controls WebParts WebPart zones Define how much control the author has over page contents look and feel Turning on restrictions on field controls Wrapping controls in CSS classes Can have many layouts per content type

A typical page render Welcome.aspx page is requested Welcome.aspx page is requested Page layout associated with page is retrieved Page layout associated with page is retrieved Master page associated with site is retrieved Master page associated with site is retrieved Controls in page layout render content from pages fields into the page Controls in page layout render content from pages fields into the page Inherited from Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services Field Control FieldControl Versioning Check-in and out Content types Access control Workflow 2 Stage Undelete Link Fix-up

Page content authoring in context of the site Menu-based Web authoring Out-of-the-box set of content controls DHTML control DHTML-based editor with spell checking Table editing with configurable styles Reusable HTML Fragments Image control with asset picker Attachment/Link control with asset picker

HTML contents embedded with fragment URLs HTML field: Body Page item HTML editor + picker 2 HTML fragments Text only fragments Reusable content list List item edit form 1

Server-side conversion of Word and InfoPath documents into Web pages Configurable process Pluggable converter model

Branding, Authoring and Publishing

Pages support standard WSS governance features Check-in/checkout Drafts and major versions Workflow, Content Approval Integrated with a customizable workflow system Out-of-the-box approval and review workflows Control the process while an item is waiting for approval Publishing schedules Content Deployment

Configurable out-of-the-box Workflow templates Serial and Parallel Can apply to a Pages Library Built on Windows Workflow Foundation Developers can build and deploy workflow components Tasks Show up in specific Task list Aggregated in Outlook 2007 Aggregated in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server Web Part

Common pattern Parallel sites in multiple languages In concept, they are localized mirrors In reality, there are exceptions and customizations for different regions Modeled as variations Admin creates multiple labels System creates and maintains parallel versions of containers and items Exceptions are allowed Not just for language translations Multilingual sites, multi-device sites, and multi-branded sites

Page Variation Labels: EN Site JP EN Site Page JP NewPage PageApproval Go Live! translate NewPage approve Manage related content between the source site and the targeted sites Designate source and target sites with variation labels Auto-creates target sites and pages Propagate pages from source to target sites upon approval Source and target pages can have different look and feel and independent publishing process

Source and target are loosely coupled Pages always share a content type Can use different layouts Pages can be at different versions/levels Separate approval Can be moved around (within limits) Target pages start with source page content, but can diverge That is, target page can be sent out for translation Automatic and Manual modes Flag control for choosing variation while browsing

Authoring Farm Internet Production Farm ContentDeployment Requests

Transfers content from one site collection to another Paths define the relationship between source and destination Jobs define the content to deploy and a schedule

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