MCMS Manager

A tool which can be used to do common tasks, which Microsoft Content Management Server API provides

 

Introduction

 

MCMS Manager
 

Figure I
 

In Microsoft Content Management Server after the creation of the sites, to do modification to the postings there were no common way to do so - other than using web author. Mostly when something goes wrong with the site, it is not that easy to figure out what went wrong with neither Site Manager nor going through the site. This tool can be used with Site Manager to analyze MCMS sites without much effort.

 

 

Channel Browser

 

This is a tree view where all the channels are listed. Even though this tool is aimed on postings, few operations can be done for channels. Those are listed in Figure II.

 

Figure II

 

 

Posting Browser

 

Posting browser is the main part of MCMS Manager. Here few common properties of postings are listed to view those. MCMS Manager is made to work with Site Manager-Most of the things you can see and or do using MCMS Manager can't be easily done through Site Manager. Figure III shows the properties of postings which are listed in posting browser.

 

Figure III

 

Because MCMS Manager is mainly aimed on postings many tasks can be done with postings. They are listed in the context menu which comes when a posting is selected using right mouse button. It is listed in Figure IV.

 

Figure IV

 

Resource Gallery Browser

 

This is also a tree view which displays the resource structure. The functions provided with this are listed in Figure V.

 

 

Figure V

 

Resource Browser

 

Similar to posting browser resource browser can be used to browse through the resources. Given functionalities are listed in Figure VI & Figure VII.

 

Figure VI

 

Figure VII

 

Template Gallery Browser 

 

Template Gallery browser can be used to browse through the templates. For more information check Figure VIII.

Figure VIII

 

Templates Browser

 

This is to browse through all the templates and do some tasks on templates. Check Figure IX and Figure X.

 

Figure IX

Figure X

 

Notify Icon

 

As MCMS Manager is always a useful tool for administrators, it can be minimized to system tray. By that, you can reduce the initialization time as well. See Figure XI for what are the options you can get from the notify icon.

 

Figure XI