Comments on: Web Content Management in SharePoint Server 2010

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 08:54:27 +0000

@Fred: Unfortunately the choice is limited. At this moment there is only one SharePoint-specific WCM book, and it's for MOSS2007 (written by Andrew Connell). Although it's written for MOSS2007 a lot of concepts still apply in SP2010. Another book that you might try is the Real World SP2010 book, by a number of SharePoint MVP's. If I'm correct it contains a chapter about WCM, and although I haven't read the book myself, I would expect it to have some valuable information as well.
A good idea for someone who's just starting development on the SharePoint platform (no matter if it's portals or WCM) is a SharePoint development book. You might want to try the SP Dev Wrox books (beginning with Beginning and moving to advanced).
Last but not least a fair piece of developing Internet-facing websites has nothing to do with SharePoint at all. So for that you might want to read some books on CSS (CSS Mastery), web standards, etc.
You can find links to some of those books in the Books section of this blog.

By: Fred Dimms

Fred Dimms — Sat, 27 Nov 2010 21:27:07 +0000

Hi,
Which books, resources would you recommend to anyone just starting up with WCM in SharePoint 2010?

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:47:41 +0000

@venkatx5: that's correct although it's important to notice that it depends on the setting. When configuring Variations you can specify whether SharePoint should automatically create a draft for every Variation Label or not. Creating Hierarchies is the name of the initial process that takes place after configuring Variation Labels. In that process a site is created for every Variation Label that you defined.

By: venkatx5

venkatx5 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:31:32 +0000

That's Great. Once the variation labels created then it'll be maintained by SharePoint and whenever any site getting created, SharePoint will create sites based on given variation Labels. Is that correct? Again what for Hierarchies? :) Sorry am newbie to this Area.

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:24:54 +0000

@venkatx5: I guess the thing that you misunderstood are Variations. Variations is not a list of key > value pairs that you can refer to. Those are User Translations. Variations are different versions of the site, like http://contoso/en, http://contoso/fr, etc. where en and fr are Variation Labels.

By: venkatx5

venkatx5 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 12:13:00 +0000

Wow.. Thanks a lot Waldek. First time in my life I got reply for a question in blog within few minutes. :)

As per my understanding I can create labels with same name and different display name for each language then use it in pages where I like. (ie. Just like Re-usable content for each language).

For ex. I create label Named "SiteTitle" in Each language with different displayname. Then I can add the siteTitle variation label in site home page of each language. So based on language it'll fetch content from Variation labels list.
1. Am I right?
Pretty confused with term Hierarchy.
2. What's it exactly used here?

Thanks once again
-Venkatesh R

By: Waldek Mastykarz

Waldek Mastykarz — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:56:43 +0000

@venkatx5: Whenever you create a Variation Label SharePoint will create a new branch in the structure of the site for you. The basic idea is that you publish the same content to all branches and translate the content to the right language.
As for the resx files, they are stored in the database. According to the SDK you should be able to access the labels using the SPWeb.UserResources property although I haven't tried it yet myself.

By: venkatx5

venkatx5 — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 11:12:00 +0000

Hi Waldek, Thank for the information about SharePoint 2010. I have installed 2 Language packs in our dev MSS 2010 server. Translation and Variation settings are working fine. With code (OM) am able to add variation labels. But Now I want to know how to use Variation Labels in site pages. Lets say a \"announcement\" information which has to be available in 3 language sites with it\'s language. I can create Variations labels with same name and different display name content for each language. How to use that? Another question when I upload a language translation file (.resx) where it\'s getting saved? How can I access that .resx file?

Thanks.
- Venkatesh R

By: Keren

Keren — Thu, 13 May 2010 11:07:43 +0000

I'll be glad to get more details how to use the PageFieldValue in Content Query, thanks

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