DLA T&T V4, thank you for giving my life meaning. Too bad 99.999% of the world will never know your love.
DLA T&T V3, May 2002 - December 2004. May you Rest in Peace.
DLA T&T V1 and V2, you are but a distant memory.
Wednesday, December 22, 2004
Monday, November 29, 2004
Construction Update 2
With shingles:
When the weather is nice, we have to prime and paint and do some touch ups, and it's done.
When the weather is nice, we have to prime and paint and do some touch ups, and it's done.
Sunday, November 28, 2004
Construction Update
Our shed was not built in a day.
It took three.
Here it is last night, before the shingles.
Shingles went on today. What a task. Now all we have left to do is caulk, prime, and paint.
But first, back to my day job as a computer nerd! Yes, I will start posting some useful stuff here. Really!
It took three.
Here it is last night, before the shingles.
Shingles went on today. What a task. Now all we have left to do is caulk, prime, and paint.
But first, back to my day job as a computer nerd! Yes, I will start posting some useful stuff here. Really!
Saturday, November 06, 2004
Edit Posting Properties in Authoring Mode
On the past couple of MCMS projects I've worked on, we decided to bring the Page Properties into the page in authoring mode and turned off access to the "Page Properties" window for authors and editors.
This killed two birds with one stone:
1) It took a fewer steps for authors and editors to change properties like the StartDate, ExpiryDate, Important, and certain Custom Properties. No more needing to open a separate window and figure out which properties to change.
2) It allowed us to hide certain Page Properties from certain users, like Name, Display Name, and some Custom Properties. Since you cannot restrict rights down to the placeholder or property level (only the channel level), this allowed us to show some properties only to users in certain role groups (using another nifty method, BTW). Plus, we automatically set the Name and DisplayName of most of our postings, so this method removes the ability for the user to edit these properties as well.
We built separate User Controls for each feature, and then added the controls to each template. This works well, but does mean that we have quite a few different User Controls.
Stefan Goßner has come up with a solution which can bring some or all of the Page Properties into the page, and does not require much (or any) coding! Check out the article on his blog and download the sample code from GotDotNet.
This killed two birds with one stone:
1) It took a fewer steps for authors and editors to change properties like the StartDate, ExpiryDate, Important, and certain Custom Properties. No more needing to open a separate window and figure out which properties to change.
2) It allowed us to hide certain Page Properties from certain users, like Name, Display Name, and some Custom Properties. Since you cannot restrict rights down to the placeholder or property level (only the channel level), this allowed us to show some properties only to users in certain role groups (using another nifty method, BTW). Plus, we automatically set the Name and DisplayName of most of our postings, so this method removes the ability for the user to edit these properties as well.
We built separate User Controls for each feature, and then added the controls to each template. This works well, but does mean that we have quite a few different User Controls.
Stefan Goßner has come up with a solution which can bring some or all of the Page Properties into the page, and does not require much (or any) coding! Check out the article on his blog and download the sample code from GotDotNet.
Saturday, October 30, 2004
Development Resources
If you are looking for development resources for Microsoft Content Management Server, check out my MCMS links page: http://www.wardworks.com/mvp/
Sunday, October 24, 2004
Greetings
Hola, buenos dias.
I have created this blog so I have a place to spew periodic thoughts and tips that I come across. The focus will be ASP.NET and Microsoft Content Management Server, but you never know what you're going to get.
I have created this blog so I have a place to spew periodic thoughts and tips that I come across. The focus will be ASP.NET and Microsoft Content Management Server, but you never know what you're going to get.
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