live edit functionality

I'm trying to bring a "LiveEdit" functionality to our TS implementation using URL commands. By LiveEdit I mean, the interface the users use to make changes or add new content is the actual site. Open souce CMSs are all like this. OpenCMS calls it LiveEdit and Plone, Mambo are like this but they probably call it something else.

My idea is to have OD deploy to a "pre-prod" IIS where a style sheet will have .liveEdit DIVs' visibility set to show. The users will use the pre-prod IIS as their interface instead of CCStd. On the "production" IIS, the style sheet will have .liveEdit DIVs' visibility set to hidden so the public won't see the LiveEdit menu.

Even though the LiveEdit menu is hidden to the public, the links are still there and I'm concerned about web crawlers. I read that it's a bad practice to have edit links in your web pages because I've heard RUMOURS that Google emptied some guy's CMS once because of the edit links into the CMS.

Have others tried to implement LiveEdit features and what are your strategies?

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Nicholas

I did implemented couple of projects in OpenCMS and its well know and could say good feature into that making conent ediatable directly. But if I consider this with TeamSite, you will be making changes in content once content has been released from TeamSite, is this case how you will maintain the content identical to the TeamSite. This could create lot of confusion and inconsistent data (data stored in TeamSite and data that is live in production after modification).

Thanks Nicholas

yanSi

The pre-prod IIS will contain the menus to add new content or edit existing content. Those new/edit links point to TeamSite so the data will be consistent. The pre-prod IIS is just an alternate interface into TeamSite.

Nicholas

I think, this is something making things complex though I doubt you can easily maintain the consistent content stat. In OpenCMS this is fine because it itself provides this funtionality and take care of things. Well if you need this to be implemented, you can surely try this so best of luck.

Thanks Nicholas

sunita

Hi All,
Actually i m very new to devnet.So i don't know how to use this one.
So anybody can tell me that how to post my doubts in devnet???????
Please help me??????/

Nicholas

First, check out all the Forums available on DevNet and navigate to relevent forum where you want to post your question.

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hope this will help you.

Thanks Nicholas

cheeku

HI Nicolas,

You have mentioned that using OpenCMS can create some confusion as there would be data inconsistency on teamsite and prod server. Dont you think reverse deployment(using Open deploy) can help in such scenarios?

THanks