Server-Side Pings and Index Pages

[deane_b]

I'm looking at Contribute for a medium-sized deployment. I have two specific
questions:

-- I've seen in several places that Contribute is able to ping a URL when a
page is published ("send a notification," whatever). This functionality has
been under the heading of "server-side extensibility." Is this is a core
feature of Contribute, or is part of Contribute Publishing Server? Do I get
this if I just buy a standalone copy of Contribute?

-- While I like Contribute over traditional content management for a lot of
reasons, the one thing that traditional content management does well is
automating the creation of index pages. If I have 200 articles, how will
Contribute help me with pages of links to these articles? Do I still have to
maintain the index pages manually, or is there some built-in functionality I'm
not finding?

Deane

[Joel - Contribute Team]

Here's some quick follow up this. We've alerted the team to your questions.
So further details will follow sometime soon.

You can put any URL in the CPS pane of the client-side Admin dialog. As long
as the server implements our CPS Event Notification SOAP API the notification
events will work from the client without installing our CPS server. Note - you
would *not* want to have the User Directory service enabled from the
client-side in this scenario. Our documentation on CPS that's freely available
on the contribute documentation webpage includes the API details.

Our Sample RSS Service that comes with CPS could be used as a starting point
example to build an index page generation service that builds off the
notification API. CPS has free trial downloads. You could try this out and
use the code to build your own to use whether or not you end up buying the CPS.