| Sivaji 2007-02-21, 1:19 am |
| Hi Stefan,
Sorry for the heading , it is MCMS 20002.
Thanks,
Sivaji
"Sivaji" wrote:
> Hi Stefan,
> I need to analyze the effort to migrate our client's MCMS based site to
> MOSS.With my initial understanding of MOSS what I found is that custom fields
> need to be developed as replacement for all XML placeholder control , which
> actually covers 90% of all the placeholders in the site.
> As I went through the documentation provided by Microsoft , I found that a
> BaseFieldControl derived class needs to be created which in the edit mode(in
> CreateChildControl) communicates with a separate .ascx file and its
> overridden Value property restores/saves the content to the field from the
> controls in the .ascx file. What I found missing is any control over
> rendering as this part I suppose is controlled by CAML portion of a
> fldtypes_**.xml , which hardly offers any programmatic control over
> rendering. In our case , we do exhaustive parsing of the saved xml content
> within CreatePresentationChildControls and do the final rendering based on
> that. I could not figure out how it could be possible in MOSS.
>
> Pls give ur valuable suggestions.
>
> Thanks ,
> Sivaji
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