Create a new Area in a MOSS 2007 Content Managed Web Site

In my first article I showed how to create a web application and a new site collection to host a Content managed web site.

Now let’s look at creating a new area for the site that was created.

From the site settings menu select “Site Content and Structure”

On this screen you’ll see the site structure and the related lists and libraries for the “Demo Web Site”.

The right hand pane gives you access to creating new areas for the site. By default you will see an area named “Press Releases”. What’s interesting to note here is that an “area” in the context menu is referred to as a “Site”.

Essentially you will be creating individual sub sites under the main site for each area. (I will refer to “sites” as “areas” in this article)

So to create a new area (site) which is part of the existing site choose New > Site.

I will be creating a new area (site) named “Solutions Delivery”.

Add in the required info and leave most as default and click Create.

Once created you’ll see the new area (site). Click on the plus icon to expand it and you’ll see that by default it has the following libraries and lists. Documents, Images, Pages, Workflow Tasks.

The “Pages Document Library” stores the pages (or postings as they were called in MSCMS) created and published for the area of the site. Once an area is created a designated “default” page is created that is based on a master page template.

Templates for your site are stored in the “Master Page Gallery” found on the root level site. (We’ll look at how to create templates using Visual Studio .Net 2005 and add them to the “Master Page Gallery” at a later article)

Lets create a new page and submit it for approval from the “Pages” document library of the new area (site) we just created. Select the “Pages” and select “Create Page”.

Enter the page name and select a template for the page. Once the page is created we’ll look at the new approval steps. You’ll notice the page you created is tagged as a “Draft” and is automatically checked out to you. Check in the Page by selecting “Check In” from the context menu. You will prompted to add in comments before you check in the page. Click OK and the page status will now be Checked In.

Once Checked in Choose “Submit for Approval” from the context menu.

You will be prompted to add comments on what has changed for this page.

Once you have submitted the Page for approval you can check the Version History of the page you have been editing.

You’ll notice that there are now minor versioning on documents (pages in this instance). This is a new feature across WSS V3.

Navigate to the new area (site) and see the new page that was created. You can edit the page and add content and publish the page using the tool bar.

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