Professional SharePoint® 2007 Web Content Management Development: Building Publishing Sites with Office SharePoint Server 2007

5.2. Examining the Publishing Portal Site Definition

Before building a custom site definition for creating Publishing sites, it helps to look at the site definition Microsoft provides OOTB to create Publishing sites: Publishing Portal. The site definition Microsoft provides will be virtually the same as the one created in the following sections. It is the Features used that do most of the work. When a site collection is created using the Publishing Portal template, the PublishingWeb Feature is activated. This Feature in turn activates other Features, which activate even more Features, as shown in Figure 5-3.

Figure 5-3. Figure 5-3

Each Feature is responsible for something different. The following sections describe the various things for which each Feature is responsible.

5.2.1. Publishing Feature PublishingWeb

The PublishingWeb Feature has it easy — it is simply responsible for activating the PublishingSite and Publishing Features and does nothing else.

5.2.2. Publishing Feature Publishing

The Publishing Feature adds the plumbing needed for a few of the unique capabilities of the Publishing framework. A new link is added to the Edit Control Block (ECB) menu for documents in document libraries to manage document conversions (covered in Chapter 18, "Offline Authoring with Document Converters"). New links are also added to the Pages library's General Settings page for scheduling ...