Chapter 2. Managing Channels and Postings with the PAPI

In the previous chapter we used the MCMS Publishing API to create a web-based CMS management application called CMS Explorer. CMS Explorer provides a web interface for viewing the properties of channels, postings, templates, template galleries, resources, and resource galleries. In this chapter we will dig deeper into our examination of the PAPI by inserting additional functionality to manage channels and postings.

Managing Channels and Postings

Imagine a scenario where you have been asked to move contents of a legacy web portal to MCMS. The portal contains hundreds of channels and thousands of postings. One option is to hire someone to manually create the channels and postings, copying and pasting the HTML content from the old pages to the new postings and approving each and every one of them. That’s definitely a viable solution but let’s imagine hiring is not an option and despite the generous offer of...