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re: Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

Orion Culver — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 08:18:33 GMT

Ok, ignore my previous comment -- I had the name of my subform incorrectly referenced in the containing form. My methods are being called jsut fine now. However, my RequiredFieldValidator still isn't stopping the page from submitting. I can call Page.Validate(), & I can see it set Page.IsValid to false, but the form still submits & a forum post is still added.

How do I get validators in SubForms to work?

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re: Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

Orion Culver — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 07:57:06 GMT

ok, last post didn't work, so I'll write a shorter one. I want my RequiredFieldValidator to fire, so I tied calling Page.Validate() in ApplyChangesBeforeCommit() & ApplyChangesAfterCommit(). Apparently, those methods aren't being called. I tried removing the name of the ValidationGroup from Validate(), but no luck. The aforementioned methods, where I want to be storing data, aren't getting called. I tried rewriting the override, but intellisense can't seem to find the methods, even though I can see them in the class in CommunityServerControl20 project, Base folder. I'm just getting more & more confused here...

help?

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re: Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

Orion Culver — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:39:05 GMT

Thanks for this, Ben! You're making my life a LOT easier!

I made a subform that has a drop down list & a required field validator such that users are supposed to select any value besides the default 1st value in the list for the page to be valid. Unfortunately, I can't seem to get the validator to work. I also see that there's a property for the CreateEditForumPostForm class that lists the validation group for a child PlaceHolder CSControl. Is there a way to make sure that my subform's require field validator is being fired to another control in the same subform? Page.Validate( "myValidationGroupName" ) seems not to work either...

Thanks again,

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re: Dynamic Navigation Add On for Community Server

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:37:43 GMT

nguyenlv@gmail.com -- Are you still having problems with this? Could you send me the <navigation>...</navigation> region of your SiteUrls.config and SiteUrls_override.config (if you have one) via the email form?

re: Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:34:16 GMT

Megan Littke-Smith -- Is your sub-form large or difficult to configure? Could you send the source to me via the email form? There are some issues with how ASP.Net persists select/drop-down data, but it would help to diagnose the issue with a sample to work from.

re: Community Server 2008 Hack-a-thon

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:32:38 GMT

Jason -- The best places are (1) the dev.communityserver.com forums and (2) the *incomplete* documentation at api.communityserver.com

re: Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:31:23 GMT

Trabor -- The permissions associated for each membership type are hard-set within the permissions class of each sub-application within a group. While this hard-logic could be removed, there is no UI for managing invididual permissions within a group.

As part of CS2008.next, we are evaluating exposing additional configuration options for each of the membership types at the site and group level.

re: Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:28:50 GMT

vinod -- Within the group, change the membership type of the user to "Owner" on the "Membership" page.

re: Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:27:49 GMT

Steve -- Creating/managing users is all done on the Membership page within a group by an owner. Owners can add members, delete members, and invite users to the group via email.

What specifically do you want more information about?

re: Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:26:19 GMT

ranjan -- To add widgets to the home page, a new widget region would need to be created on the themes/THEMENAME/common/home.aspx page and a new widget variable would need to be added to the theme.

For more information on how to do this, see: getben.com/.../community-server-2008-how-to-support-widgets-in-a-custom-theme.aspx

re: Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

Ben Tiedt — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 04:25:02 GMT

Slnavn2000 -- You could create a dynamic configuration option for the theme that allows the entering of an integer value for each of the options (GroupID and ForumID) and then use code on the page similar to the following to read and assign the values on the <CSForum:ThreadList ID="CustomList" /> (note that I added an ID, "CustomList", to the ThreadList control)...

protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)

{

CommunityServer.Discussions.Controls.ThreadList list = CommunityServer.Controls.CSControlUtility.Instance().FindControl("CustomList", this) as CommunityServer.Discussions.Controls.ThreadList;

if (list != null)

{

CSContext csContext = CSContext.Current;

list.QueryOverrides.ForumID = csContext.SiteThemeData.GetIntValue("ForumID", -1);

list.QueryOverrides.GroupID = csContext.SiteThemeData.GetIntValue("GroupID", -1);

}

base.OnLoad(e);

}

</script>

This is assuming that the ForumID and GroupID properties you defined for the site theme have the IDs "ForumID" and "GroupID".

Hopefully this gives you an idea on how to implement this feature.

re: Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

Trabor — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 15:39:14 GMT

Hi Ben,

How difficult would it be to enable user permissions for group forums. For example... give some group members permission to vote on the group forum, and deny such permission for the others.

Thx!

re: Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

vinod — Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:23:40 GMT

Hi Ben,

It your posts give a lot of insight into community server development. Thanks for that. I need to know how to assign an owner to a group ? I (System administrator) have created a group (Group1) and now want to assign an regular CS user (User1) as an owner to Group1. I cant add User1 to GroupAdministrators since, User1 would have admin access to all other groups (Group2, 3 and so on). I couldnt find this in control panel, where i can do this? Can you help me out ?

Thanks in advance,

Vinod.

re: Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

ranjan — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:58:39 GMT

in CS 2008 i don't see a option to add a widget to home page. pLease help

re: Dynamic Navigation Add On for Community Server

nguyenlv@gmail.com — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:38:05 GMT

Line 13: protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)

Line 14: {

Line 15: if (this.DataSource != null)

Line 16: this.DataBind();

Line 17:

Source File: D:\Project\HPA1.1\Controls\CSLink\NavigationList.cs Line: 15

Stack Trace:

[NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.]

GetBen.DynamicNavigation.Utility.GetDefaultDynamicNavigationValue() +200

GetBen.DynamicNavigation.Utility.ParseDynamicNavigationValue(String value) +44

GetBen.DynamicNavigation.NavigationList.get_DataSource() +316

CommunityServer.Controls.NavigationList.OnLoad(EventArgs e) in D:\Project\HPA1.1\Controls\CSLink\NavigationList.cs:15

System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +47

System.Web.UI.Control.LoadRecursive() +131

System.Web.UI.Page.ProcessRequestMain(Boolean includeStagesBeforeAsyncPoint, Boolean includeStagesAfterAsyncPoint) +1061