Currently we use Microsoft Content Management Server 2002.
We have heavily used the feature of Connected Pages. Connected pages in MCMS allows us to create a new version of a page in another part of the website or in another domain hosted within the same MCMS application using the new domain's template.
The body content is identical because they are connected. This allows us to update our main website, www and keep the catalog site up-to-date without having to duplicate content physically.
We are currently looking at other CMS platforms to move too and would like to know if this kind of functionality is possible with Umbraco.
This is definently possible to achieve within Umbraco - I don't know how MS CMS 2002 works but I can imagine you'll need to think in a different way in an Umbraco context.
What we like to do where I work is to create a repository in the content section in Umbraco called "Shared content" where you can create content that should be reused throughout the site and accross domains.
What you need to do is install the uComponents package in Umbraco and then use the "Multiple tree node picker" datatype and configure it to point at you shared content repository so you can select the nodes from here.
Does this make sense to you? Or do you need it to be explained in further detail? :-) (I'd be happy to).
That kinda makes sense. It's definitely different from how it's done in MCMS. I was hoping to find something that worked similiar. Currently our end users have the ability to take any page and create a connected page in another site or section of the current site that they have access to. Breaking content out into seperate places while it may be confusing initially might be ok.
I'm just kinda suprised this was a feature that it seems only MCMS has/had. Microsoft didn't even implement it the same way in SharePoint which replaced MCMS. :(
Maybe it's possible to make something similar in Umbraco but I don't know how it should be done since my C# skills are not that good and I don't know exactly how it works in MCMS.
But in terms of features and built in stuff Umbraco does not come with all kinds advanced stuff out of the box. It's a simple framework that is good at handling content - how you tweak it is up to you :-)
Maybe some other bright mind in here can tell you more about other ways to do it :-)
I'm not sure exactly how MCMS did it, but in the graphic below, the red box indicates the content placeholder that is named the same between the two pages. The navigation menus are user controls that built the navigation dynamicly based upon each site's structure.
Essentially a user would be in the edit mode for the site on the left and choose "Created Connected Page" it would then pop-up a window and show the user a tree view of all of the sites defined in the application (we have about 18 different sites hosted in the same instance of MCMS, all using Host Header mapping), the user would then pick where the connected page was to be placed. If the destination site was a different site than the originating site, the template for the new site would contain only the placeholders that were to be displayed. In this example the site on the left has about 6 different placeholders, the site on the right has the same 6 but has a few others that are unique to this site only.
I was hoping that there would be a way to do this similiarly, even if I had to write a some code, I am a .net Developer, though I'm not advanced.
Connected Page Content
Currently we use Microsoft Content Management Server 2002.
We have heavily used the feature of Connected Pages. Connected pages in MCMS allows us to create a new version of a page in another part of the website or in another domain hosted within the same MCMS application using the new domain's template.
Example: http://www.lorainccc.edu/About+Us/ is connected to http://catalog.lorainccc.edu/About+Lorain+County+Community+College/
The body content is identical because they are connected. This allows us to update our main website, www and keep the catalog site up-to-date without having to duplicate content physically.
We are currently looking at other CMS platforms to move too and would like to know if this kind of functionality is possible with Umbraco.
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Joe
Hi Joe,
(almost) everything is possible in Umbraco. In umbraco you can relate anyting to anything by using the relationship API:
http://our.umbraco.org/wiki/reference/api-cheatsheet/relationtypes-and-relations
Kind regards
Damiaan
Hi Joe
This is definently possible to achieve within Umbraco - I don't know how MS CMS 2002 works but I can imagine you'll need to think in a different way in an Umbraco context.
What we like to do where I work is to create a repository in the content section in Umbraco called "Shared content" where you can create content that should be reused throughout the site and accross domains.
What you need to do is install the uComponents package in Umbraco and then use the "Multiple tree node picker" datatype and configure it to point at you shared content repository so you can select the nodes from here.
Does this make sense to you? Or do you need it to be explained in further detail? :-) (I'd be happy to).
/Jan
That kinda makes sense. It's definitely different from how it's done in MCMS. I was hoping to find something that worked similiar. Currently our end users have the ability to take any page and create a connected page in another site or section of the current site that they have access to. Breaking content out into seperate places while it may be confusing initially might be ok.
I'm just kinda suprised this was a feature that it seems only MCMS has/had. Microsoft didn't even implement it the same way in SharePoint which replaced MCMS. :(
hmmmm...
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Joe
Hi Joe
Maybe it's possible to make something similar in Umbraco but I don't know how it should be done since my C# skills are not that good and I don't know exactly how it works in MCMS.
But in terms of features and built in stuff Umbraco does not come with all kinds advanced stuff out of the box. It's a simple framework that is good at handling content - how you tweak it is up to you :-)
Maybe some other bright mind in here can tell you more about other ways to do it :-)
/Jan
I'm not sure exactly how MCMS did it, but in the graphic below, the red box indicates the content placeholder that is named the same between the two pages. The navigation menus are user controls that built the navigation dynamicly based upon each site's structure.
Essentially a user would be in the edit mode for the site on the left and choose "Created Connected Page" it would then pop-up a window and show the user a tree view of all of the sites defined in the application (we have about 18 different sites hosted in the same instance of MCMS, all using Host Header mapping), the user would then pick where the connected page was to be placed. If the destination site was a different site than the originating site, the template for the new site would contain only the placeholders that were to be displayed. In this example the site on the left has about 6 different placeholders, the site on the right has the same 6 but has a few others that are unique to this site only.
I was hoping that there would be a way to do this similiarly, even if I had to write a some code, I am a .net Developer, though I'm not advanced.
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