So you might have an MCMS site that has been kicking around for a few years... lots of content has been deleted. Site is getting sluggish. You go into Site Manager to empty the deleted items and everything you click takes 1 minute to respond. Emptying the deleted items is useless - it just crashes. The reason for this, I think, is that it retrieves XML from MCMS and when trying to manipulate the huge XML files in the XML DOM it just falls over. The DOM does have a maximum logical size of XML it can manipulate before performance degrades quickly. What to do? Well it's a nasty one as there is ... [More]

Note: This article only refers to content placeholders, ie text, although much of the article would apply equally to attachment placeholders, albeit requring a little more effort. When handling postings in MCMS using the Word Authoring Connector, there is no built-in way to target multiple or specific placeholders. The only way to ensure that the correct placeholder content is populated is to create the template definition with an OfficeHtmlPlaceholder definition or only place one HtmlPlaceholder definition on the page (the 'first' one is used if there are multiple HtmlPlaceholders - if there... [More]

I know that others have mentioned this one before, including Stefan, but if you find that your tree-view control isn't loading, it's likely that your website isn't running under the wwwroot default folder. This means that you probably don't have the webctrl_client folder under your web root folder. Copy it over from wwwroot and that should sort you out. You might also need aspnet_client if you're using anything that utilises client-side ASP.NET generated scripting, such as validators.

Microsoft Content Management Server provides a fairly powerful revision history tool within the Web Author. It shows a list of versions, and can compare them for differences. However, MCMS doesn’t really help too much when trying to present older revisions to subscribers outside of the Web Author.   Typically, this situation could occur when a user might want to see what a page looked like a week, month or even a year ago. Whilst this situation would be rare in an Internet scenario, in an Intranet (or Extranet) scenario it would be more common. If an end-user had to contact one of the MCMS... [More]