System and method for publishing collaboration items to a web site

• US 20060123334A1
• Filed: 12/02/2004
• Published: 06/08/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2004
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Griffin, William J., Balasubramanyan, Balaji, Stocker, Ryan R.
• Granted Patent: US 7,672,995 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/274
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/958 Organisation or management of web site content, e.g. publishing, maintaining pages or automatic linking

Abstract

A computer-implemented process takes content created collaboratively from a workgroup environment and converts it into a scheduled web page that is publishable on the Internet. The computer-implemented process loosely relates the generated collaboration content and the published web page such that each may be independently modified and have independent life cycles, but still reflect changes to the collaboration content on the published web page.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method for publishing collaboration information to a network, comprising:

associating presentation information with a collaboration schema that corresponds to the collaboration information;

deriving a publication schema from the collaboration schema, wherein the publication schema includes additional properties for publishing the collaboration information to the network; and

publishing the collaboration information to the network according to the publication schema.

2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, further comprising copying the collaboration information from a collaboration site to a publication page in accordance with the publication schema, wherein the changes to the collaboration information on the collaboration site are reflected automatically in the network publishing library.

3. The computer-implemented method of claim 2, further comprising associating the publication page with the collaboration information of the collaboration site such that changes to the collaboration information and the publication page are both reflected on the network.

4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the presentation information further comprises a reference to a page layout definition such that collaboration information generated according to the collaboration schema conforms with the page layout definition.

5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the presentation information further comprises a field restriction definition that is used to apply restrictions when publishing the collaboration information to the network.

6. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein deriving the publication schema further comprises establishing an inheritance relationship between the collaboration schema and the publication schema such that changes to the collaboration schema are reflected in the publication schema.

7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein deriving the publication schema further comprises copying the additional properties from another publishing schema without establishing an inheritance relationship between the publication schema and the other publishing schema.

8. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the collaboration schema and the publication schema correspond to content type definitions.

9. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein publishing the collaboration information further comprises initiating field controls that are configured to render fields associated with the collaboration information.

10. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the field controls access a publication page associated with the publication schema for determining content and layout for publishing the collaboration information.

11. The computer-implemented method of claim 9, wherein the field controls access the collaboration schema for determining field restrictions associated with rendering the fields associated with the collaboration information.

12. A computer-readable medium that includes computer-executable instructions for publishing collaboration information to a network, the computer-executable instructions comprising:

associating presentation information with a collaboration schema that corresponds to collaboration information on a collaboration site;

deriving a publication schema from the collaboration schema, wherein the publication schema includes additional properties for publishing the collaboration information to the network; and

using the publication schema to publish the collaboration information to the network, wherein the published collaboration information and the collaboration information of the collaboration site are associated such that changes to the collaboration information of the collaboration are reflected in the published collaboration information.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, further comprising copying the collaboration information from a collaboration site to a publication page in accordance with the publication schema, wherein the changes to the collaboration information on the collaboration site are reflected automatically in the network publishing library.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 13, further comprising associating the publication page with the collaboration information of the collaboration site such that changes to the collaboration information and the publication page are both reflected on the network.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the presentation information further comprises a reference to a page layout definition such that collaboration information generated according to the collaboration schema conforms with the page layout definition.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein deriving the publication schema further comprises establishing an inheritance relationship between the collaboration schema and the publication schema such that changes to the collaboration schema are reflected in the publication schema.

17. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein deriving the publication schema further comprises copying the additional properties from another publishing schema without establishing an inheritance relationship between the publication schema and the other publishing schema.

18. The computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein publishing the collaboration information further comprises initiating field controls that are configured to render fields associated with the collaboration information.

19. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the field controls access a publication page associated with the publication schema for determining content and layout for publishing the collaboration information.

20. The computer-readable medium of claim 18, wherein the field controls access the collaboration schema for determining field restrictions associated with rendering the fields associated with the collaboration information.

21. A system for publishing collaboration information to a network, comprising:

a computing device; and

a set of computer-executable instruction located in memory on the computing devices, the computer-executable instructions comprising;

associating presentation information with a collaboration schema that corresponds to collaboration information on a collaboration site;

deriving a publication schema from the collaboration schema, wherein the publication schema includes additional properties for publishing the collaboration information to the network;

copying the collaboration information from the collaboration site to a publication page in accordance with the publication schema, wherein the changes to the collaboration information on the collaboration site are reflected automatically in the network publishing library; and

associating the publication page with the collaboration information of the collaboration site such that changes to the collaboration information and the publication page are both reflected on the network.

22. The system of claim 22, wherein the presentation information further comprises a reference to a page layout definition such that collaboration information generated according to the collaboration schema conforms with the page layout definition.

23. The system of claim 22, wherein publishing the collaboration information further comprises initiating field controls that are configured to render fields associated with the collaboration information.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the field controls access a publication page associated with the publication schema for determining content and layout for publishing the collaboration information.

25. The system of claim 23, wherein the field controls access the collaboration schema for determining field restrictions associated with rendering the fields associated with the collaboration information.