Chapter 13. Essential How-Tos, Tips, and Tricks

This chapter covers nine essential tips and tricks that developers can use within their MCMS applications:

• How to revert a posting to a previous version. . While MCMS allows you to compare and view a posting’s revision history, it does not provide an immediate solution to roll back changes. This example shows how to program your own dialog allowing authors to select a previously published version of the page to revert to.

• How to change a posting’s template. . Once a posting has been created, there’s no obvious way to change its template. The typical answer given to authors is to manually salvage information from the postings based on the “wrong” templates and create new postings based on the “correct” template. In this how-to, we will show you how to automate this copying process, saving authors hours of valuable time.

• How to build a recycle bin. . Postings deleted from Web...