Creating A Custom Publishing Service - MACROMEDIA CONTRIBUTE 3-CONTRIBUTE PUBLISHING SERVER Manual

Related topics:
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"About extending the Simple File Deployment service" on page 20
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"API data types" on page 22
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"Web service methods" on page 23

Creating a custom publishing service

The Contribute Publishing Server (CPS) API enables you to write custom services to add more
server-side functionality. For example, with the CPS API you can make the following types of
server-side capabilities possible:
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Logging changes to a database for auditing
You can write a server-side script to record all site activity against an inventory database.
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Automated page-checking at the time of publication
You can write a script to check content before it's published. Checks might include
compliance with standards, such as Section 508, or broken links.
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Setting file permissions
You can write a script to reset the permissions of newly written files so that all members of a
department can edit them after they are published.
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Indexing content
You can write a script to index published content for searching. Or, you might want a script to
maintain an index for the title, author, or date of documents.
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Enhancing the draft review process
You can write a server-side script to create more detailed reports or to trigger more e-mail
notifications, such as one that might alert a reviewer that a draft has been waiting for review for
a specified amount of time.
Note: If you want to create a service to move files from a staging/testing server to a live/production
server, you can extend the Simple File Deployment service. For more information, see
extending the Simple File Deployment service" on page
CPS sends events to services using the SOAP format over HTTP or HTTPS. A custom service is
implemented as a web service, with a web service method for each method of the CPS API.
To create a custom publishing service:
Write a web service that implements the CPS API.
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See "Write a web service that implements the CPS API" on page
Install the custom service on an application server that CPS can access.
2.
See "Installing the custom service on a server" on page
Configure the CPS Forwarding service to send events for each website to your custom service.
3.
See "Forwarding website events to a custom service" on page
Test and troubleshoot you implementation.
4.
See "Testing and troubleshooting your custom service" on page
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Creating a custom publishing service
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