SharePoint And WCM

SharePoint and WCMgetting it done right!
CHAKKARADEEP CHANDRAN

Agenda
WCM Components
Master Pages
Page Layouts
Site Navigation
Site Definitions
Content Deployment
Key Takeaways
How to approach building WCM sites using SharePoint
Extending different WCM components
SharePoint and WCM – Better Together!

SharePoint WCM Myths
SharePoint is for Intranet/Records Management portals
Branding is complex, not possible really.
SharePoint lacks content management features
Building a standards compliance website is not possible
Web 2.0/jQuery integration? - Forget about it

SharePoint and WCM
SharePoint provides Web Content Management (WCM) functionality out of the box (Enterprise License)
WCM features are provided primarily by the Publishing Site feature
Several standard SharePoint components work together to provide WCM functionality
Developers go further in extending and customizing this WCM platform

Key Development Components
Custom Page Layouts
Custom Field Controls
Custom Navigation
Custom Content Types
Custom Site Definitions
Custom Web Parts/User Controls
Custom Search
Custom Master Page
Custom Site Columns
Custom Lists

Where to Begin
SharePoint 80/20 Rule
“if you can earn 80% of your requirement with current SharePoint features and need to development for other features , SharePoint is your solution.”
Site Structure/Site Collection
HTML mock-ups
Navigation
Page Layouts (Home Page, Search Page etc.,)
Static Content and Dynamic Content
Search Strategy
Users
SharePoint Environment
Development
Testing
UAT
Production
Authoring
Live

Development Tools
Visual Studio 2008
WSPBuilder
SPVisualDev
PowerShell/Batch Scripts

Site Columns and Content Types
Everything is stored in Lists
List Columns – Site Columns
Type of information, metadata – Content Type

Content

Site Columns and Content Types

Summary
Site Columns
Content Types
AC’s STSADM
Commands

Master Pages and Page Layouts
Master Page
Content Placeholders
Page Layout
Field Controls
Field Controls
User Controls
Web Parts

Master Page and Page Layout

HomePage Page Layout
TopBanner Control
ImageScroller Control
InPagePod Controls

Summary
Master Page
Page Layouts

User Controls
Content stored in lists or document libraries
No user interaction
Can be loaded in Web Parts

Field Types and Field Controls
SharePoint and WSS include many field types
Text
Choice Fields
Hyperlink or Picture
Publishing HTML
Field Type == Data Type
Create custom field types to satisfy requirements not met by out of the box field types
Field types also provide field rendering facilities
Field controls deliver or capture the content in a Publishing Page
Field controls are tightly coupled with the type of the field

Web Parts Vs Field Types
Both allow you to add content regions to a page layout
Rule of thumb:
Use field controls for content and Web Parts for functionality
Since a field control is bound to a specific field of an item, it offers complete versioning/history
Web Parts do not offer complete versioning/history

User Controls

Custom Field Type Components

Custom Field Types and Field Controls

Summary
User Controls
Custom Field Types
Web Parts Vs Field Types
Loading user controls in page layouts
Loading custom field controls in page layouts

Site Navigation
Navigating sites, subsites
Navigating pages
Use PortalSiteMapProvider
Fetches information from current context
Increases performance
However:
First request takes longer time
There can be some performance issues to fetch data that frequently changes
Data invalidation can happen
Use Site Collection Object Cache to improve caching mechanism

Navigation using PortalSiteMapProvider

Summary
PortalSiteMapProvider
Navigation Control

SPSiteDataQuery
Represents a query that can be performed across multiple lists in multiple Web sites in the same Web site collection

SPSiteDataQuery

Search
Can SharePoint find the content?
Are search scopes set accordingly?
How should results be handled?
Search Center vs. Search Site
Custom Search Page Layout
Custom Search Controls
Empty results handled?
Best Bets
Noise Words
Useful tool - http://www.codeplex.com/SharePointSearchServ

KeywordQuery Example

Site Definitions
Site definitions are not site templates
Site definitions are used to build SharePoint applications with custom coding
Custom Site Provisioning

Site Definition Process
TEMPLATESSiteTemplatesNamexmlonet.xml
Configuration ID=“0”
TEMPLATES1033XMLWEBTEMP.Name.xml
Default Publishing Modules
Site Features
Web Features
Site Provisioning

Site Definitions

Content Deployment
Authoring
(read/write)
Production
(read only)
( Incremental or Full )
Export content from the source
Transport content from the source to destination
Import content into destination

Summary
Key development components of WCM
User Controls
Custom Field Types and Field Controls
Site Navigation
Site Definitions
Content Deployment

Thank You
chaks@intergen.co.nz
www.chakkaradeep.com
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