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Cool Things about the Publishing Event Wizard

Ever notice that this little wizard in K2 blackpearl could do quite a lot of things with the new Content Management features in MOSS 2007?  [For the uninitiated, the features of the now defunct Content Management Server 2002 were merged into MOSS 2007 aka "The Borg" style.]

 Besides the standard page publishing actions such as Create, Copy, Move, Update, Check In and Delete.

 You could also:

1. Get Page Content from a page and dump it to an XML field.  This allows you to access the attributes of the page and also the contet that you are trying to access.
2. Create Page from a Convertor.  You can create a page from a document source such as InfoPath, Word Documents and also XML.  Just specify the location of the document, the convertor and the page title and bam, you are done.  Pretty cool stuff.
3. Create or Update Reusable Content.  This ties in to the other publishing page functions where you are assign reusable content to pages.  Reusable Content is a MOSS feature that allows you to bind dynamic content that can be shared across pages.  This blog post from Amanda covers this topic pretty well (http://blog.funknstyle.com/?p=577).

Pretty impressive stuff from a single wizard that allows you to do all these without a single line of code.... Cool....