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Content Publishing for SharePoint Foundation 2010
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 Overview

 
Have you ever wanted to achieve rich web content management using Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010? When using SharePoint Foundation 2010, have you wanted to change the layout of a page, change the master page or set the welcome page?
 
 
The Connected Systems Content Publishing System for SharePoint Foundation 2010 is a flexible web content management (WCM) platform that supports the creation and management of Web content, Site navigation and Site look and feel. Web content is managed via selectable layouts and an integrated editing ribbon with approval workflow managing the approval of content. Site navigation is managed through a custom navigation provider management tool. Site look and feel is managed through Master Page and custom CSS selector and multiple custom Web Parts to add look and feel functionality.
 
SharePoint Foundation 2010 customers now have the opportunity to build rich Web content with incorporated publishing capability for managing the approval of web content.
The Content Publishing System for SharePoint Foundation 2010 can be enabled for any site collection template. Once enabled at the site collection level and at each sub-site, SharePoint Foundation 2010 will support the publishing of web content and continue to support the standard features of the non-publishing site.
 
The aims of the Content Publishing System are to improve on the SharePoint Foundation 2010 platform by:
  • Improving Web Content Management; this is achieved via:
    • Improved Authoring and Composition using custom Ribbon toolbars.
    • Selectable and swappable Layout pages.
    • An Approval Workflow to “Publish” content via an approval process.
  • Improving Site navigation; this is achieved through:
    • A custom Navigation provider management tool that supports up to 4 levels of menus.
    • A settable Welcome page.
  • Improve Site “Look and Feel“; this is achieved via:
    • Supporting rich Web content and digital media content.
    • Settable Master Pages and settable Custom CSS files.
    • Custom Web Part to roll up content.
  • Offering a solution total integrated into SharePoint® Foundation 2010, this minimises the training requirements needed by delivering user interfaces known to existing SharePoint® Foundation 2010 clients.
  • Improving the governance of web content management on SharePoint® Foundation 2010; this is achieved via:
    • An Approval workflow that manages the moderation of content before publishi Publish and Expiry dates to ensure content is published on time and expires when required.

The Connected Systems Content Publishing Feature for SharePoint Foundation 2010 adds significant value to Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 and raises it to the level of most industry web content management and publishing products.t and publishing products.
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 What it does

 
With the Connected Systems Content Publishing System users can take advantage of the following:
  • Easy create, edit and save of web content
    • “Create Publishing Page” from Site Actions menu
    • Support for “Pages” Library or any other document library
    • Improved Authoring and Composition using custom Ribbon toolbars
  • Flexible look & feel options
    • Selectable Layout pages
      • Custom layout pages
      • Optional SharePoint Foundation 2010 layout pages supported
      • Custom Master Pages & Custom CSS
    • Set master page
      • Set custom CSS
      • Print “friendly” master page
    • Custom Welcome Pages
      • Set welcome page
  • Publishing and Approvals
    • Publishing Approval
    • Publish and Expiry dates supported
    • Custom Approval Workflow (customisable)
  • Custom Navigation
    • Top level navigation with Admin tools to support 4 levels of nested menus
    • Side navigation with show/hide support for Published pages.
    • Publishing pages “visible” setting to hide from navigation
    • Breadcrumb navigation (coming soon!)
  • Custom Controls and Web Part
    • Content Roll Up Web part
    • Multimedia Web Part for digital content
    • Multimedia field control of in-line rendering of digital media, graphic files and PDF documents
    • Notification Field controls and Services
  • Easy installation
    • Installable WSP & documentation
 

 How it works

 
The Connected Systems Content Publishing system supports creating SharePoint pages that have varied layouts, rich formatted text, and objects such as images and Web Parts. These features help create pages that are more appealing and relevant. It is fully integrated with SharePoint Foundation 2010's menus to give the user a seamless web content management experience. From the Site Actions menu, you select the Create Publishing Page to begin.

Once installed, it checks to see if the Pages library has been created in your site. If not, it creates it automatically. You will be prompted by to following dialog box (only once per site).

Complete the following details and you'll be creating web content pages on your site.

  1. Title: Enter a meaningful Title
  2. URL Name: The URL Name will be entered automatically. If you choose to change it, note that the name should have no spaces. Use capitalisation or an underscore character for improved readability
  3. Page Layout: Select the appropriate layout. Here you have the option of selecting a pre-defined layout.
  4. Save Location: The default save location is the Page library, however, our Content Publishing supports storing these pages in any document library.
  5. Overwrite: this allows you to either overwrite page with the existing name or don’t create a page with the same name, the default is set as Don’t Create.

Editing page content

With full ribbon integration, the Content Publishing System from Connected Systems has added the following functionality to SharePoint Foundation to make it a rich web content management experience.
  • Selectable layouts
  • New Web Parts - Content Roll-up, Multi-media
  • Scheduled and real-time publishing
  • Approval workflow
Selectable Layouts
Using the Page Layout ribbon button, the Connected Systems Content Publishing system supports the switching of page layouts. The graphic below details a few of the layouts supported out-of-the-box.

Adding New Web Parts
The Connected Systems Content Publishing comes with a few web parts that can assist in re-purposing list, document library and media file content.
  • Content Roll-up web part: (Click here for more information)
  • Multimedia web part: (Click here for more information)

Publishing a page

The SharePoint Ribbon is context sensitive and supports the management and publishing of content. Status updates inform the user of the document/page status.

Submit for Approval/Publish
Depending on whether workflow is switched on, the Submit for Approval button will kick-off the Workflow Approval process. If you have full Publish access rights, you may directly publish the page, making it available to all users.

Master page, Java script and custom CSS selection


Welcome page selection


Navigation management
 

 Features

 

The following feature comparison shows the differences between the Connected Systems Content Publishing system, SharePoint Foundation 2010 (native) and SharePoint Server 2010's Publishing Feature.

Feature Our Product SharePoint Foundation 2010 ​SharePoint Server 2010 Publishing Feature
Full ribbon support X  X ​X
Custom content types X ​X
Support any document library as store, default is "Pages" X ​
Selectable layouts X Only using Wiki pages X​
Selectable Master page, Javascript and custom CSS ​ X​ ​ ​X
Selectable Welcome Page​ ​X ​ ​X
Asset picker to location file references​ ​X ​ ​X
Navigation Management X (support of10 levels of menu)   ​X (support for 2 levels of menu)
Publish/submit (scheduled)   X ​X
Approval workflow  X ​X
Web part - Content Roll-up​ ​X ​ ​X
​Web part - Multimedia viewer ​X ​ ​X
​Field control - Multimedia viewer ​X ​ ​
Field control - Notifications​ ​X ​ ​
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Site Actions - Create Publishing Page
Create Publishing Page dialog
Create Pages Library
Selecting a layout page
Publishing tab
Publish/Submit context menu
Asset Picker
Master page selector
Welcome page selector
Navigation Management
Page scheduling

 

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