Microsoft Content Management Server : Copying Postings

Add a new web form to the CMSExplorer project. Name the new web form CopyPosting.aspx.

In Design view, drag and drop the Styles.css file from Solution Explorer onto the form. This applies the stylesheet to the page.

Toggle to HTML view and add the code as shown below for a table with four rows, between the <form> tags:

<table>
<tr>
  <td colspan="2">
    <h1>Copy Posting</h1>
    <h2>Original Path: (Add Literal for displaying the path here)</h2>
  </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td>Destination Channel:</td>
  <td>(Add the text box for the Destination Channel here)</td>
<tr>
  <td colspan="2">(Add the Label for displaying error messages here)</td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <td colspan="2" align="right">
    (Add the Copy Posting button here)
    <INPUT type="button" value="Close"
      onclick="javascript:window.close();">
  </td>
</tr>
</table>

Switch back to Design view. Drag and drop controls onto the web form and arrange them as shown in the screenshot overleaf.

Double-click on the web form to get to its code-behind file. Import the Microsoft.ContentManagement.Publishing namespace. We will put the path of the posting we’re copying into the litCurrentPosting label within the Page_Load() event handler.

. . . code continues . . .
// MCMS PAPI

namespace CmsExplorer
{
  /// <summary>
  /// Summary description for CopyPosting.
  /// </summary>
  public class CopyPosting : System.Web.UI.Page
  {
    protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.TextBox txtDestination;
    protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Label lblErrorMessage;
    protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button btnCopy;
    protected System.Web.UI.WebControls.Literal litCurrentPosting;

    private void Page_Load(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
    {
      // display the path of the posting to be copied

}
    . . . code continues . . .

					  

Toggle back to Design view and double-click on the btnCopy button. In the btnCopy_Click() event handler, add the code as follows:

private void btnCopy_Click(object sender, System.EventArgs e)
{
  CmsHttpContext cmsContext = CmsHttpContext.Current;

Navigate to http://localhost/CmsExplorer.

Select New | New Channel.

Name the new channel MyNewChannel2. Click Create Channel and then click Close.

Click MyNewChannel.

Click the Edit button on the row for My New Posting.

Click Copy. This will open a new browser window containing the Copy Posting dialog.

In the Copy Posting dialog, enter /Channels/MyNewChannel2 in the Destination Channel textbox, click Copy Posting, and then click Close.