Chapter 14. Authoring Experience Extensibility
All Web content management systems provide content authors with a user-friendly and easy way to create and manage content within a Web site. The capabilities offered in Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007 Publishing sites is no different. Content authors simply need to navigate to the section of the site where they want to add content, authenticate, and create new content using the provided browser interface.
What if this experience is not enough? Thankfully, SharePoint does not stop there. SharePoint, Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0, at its core is very extensible. Many opportunities exist for extending and replacing the functionality provided out-of-the-box (OOTB) in SharePoint. Thanks to the architecture of SharePoint 3.0, everything that WSS 3.0 has to offer is available to MOSS 2007 and thus, Publishing sites. Previous chapters have touched on the different customization options available to developers in providing a unique experience for content owners, such as page layouts, custom field controls, custom Web Parts, and custom workflows. This chapter takes the authoring experience a bit further and discusses some additional extensibility options available to SharePoint developers to customize the authoring experience.
