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re: A Very Simple 1 to 3 Column XHTML/CSS Layout with Table-like Behavior

web design halifax — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:28:42 GMT

really helpful, thank you. still learning but getting there slowly

Now Available: Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform 5.5

Ben Tiedt's Blog — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 19:12:29 GMT

The updated version of the Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform for version 5.5 is

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Barry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:06:55 GMT

You are right, I have found it now. Thanks a lot for your help, it is much appreciated!

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Ben Tiedt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:36:29 GMT

That's actually the ASPX, not the ASCX. Individual widgets' implementations are defined in web/utility/contentfragments/. The member list widget, for example, is implemented by the ASCX control in web/utility/contentfragments/core/userlist.ascx.

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Barry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 16:08:43 GMT

Ok, I know you probably don't want to get into specifics here, but the ascx control just has:

<CSControl:GroupThemeContentFragmentPage runat="server" PageName="members" />

which by my understanding is an ASP.NET User Control which is able to access the widget class' data. Does this mean I need to change CSControl:GroupThemeContentFragmentPage and the widget class, and if so, I don't know how to change the class? I am still confused! :)

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Ben Tiedt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 15:19:12 GMT

To update an existing widget, the suggested approach is to (1) copy the user control and use it in a new widget (2) disable the original widget in the control panel and (3) use the new widget in its place.

re: Now Available: Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform

Barry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:30:39 GMT

That's good news. Incidentally I imagine the cause of the confusion is that there are so many possible ways of achieving the same thing, and so much room for extending behaviour.

On the matter of themes, I am tempted just to override the Fiji one, as this will never be used by the site and so it can be thought of as redundant...

Thanks for your prompt reply.

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Barry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:26:46 GMT

Thanks for the links, I will look into them.

On a related note, I need to change a provided widget, namely the members list widget. I need to display some member details in the list ie. add a column. What would be the best way to do this please?

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Ben Tiedt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:25:28 GMT

I'd suggest reviewing ASP.Net documentation for user controls -- at the point they are included in a page rendered by the Telligent Evolution platform, they are standard ASP.Net user controls and can do anything that user controls support.

To interact with Telligent Evolution data, I'd suggest using the REST API:

Current Version:
telligent.com/.../telligent-evolution-platform-api.aspx

Version 1:
telligent.com/.../web-services-v1-api.aspx

Also, for more examples, I'd suggest looking at the SDK:
telligent.com/.../telligent-evolution-developer-software-development-kit-overview.aspx

re: Now Available: Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform

Ben Tiedt — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 13:20:30 GMT

Thanks for the feedback, Barry. We are addressing some of these issues with the next major version of the platform (I cannot discuss details at this time).

Regarding the document, we will be reviewing and updating the document soon, so I will try to get this feedback incorporated in the new version.

re: Widgets in the Telligent Evolution Platform

Barry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 11:30:57 GMT

Hi Ben,

Thanks for the link, I have created my first widget and it was very simple!

Things for next tutorial would be appreciated:

Creating a more realistic user control.

Having more meat in the logic side, ideally interacting with some external assembly or source.

Barry

re: Now Available: Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform

Barry — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 10:31:50 GMT

Hi Ben,

I have looked through the document, and it does contain a lot of information. However, I am still confused as to how to achieve my goal. Indeed, the task of trying to change the appearance of the site seems much harder than it should be, by my understanding of the document.

My goal is to apply a range of changes to the UI, from colours, fonts and images, to changing the layout and possible further customisation of existing widgets.

The problem is that I know most of the tricks to move widgets around on a page and use the control panel for changing themes, but I don't know the best way to approach the problem as a whole:

Do I need to create a new theme (copying the old one) or just change the Fiji theme? How do I make changes to the existing widgets where their existing customisation options are not sufficient? (If it is branching them, then specifically how do I do this please?) Would the HTML markup translator be a better avenue to go?

It seems I already know how to do these things, but the process is confusing to me as there seem to be changes to be made in various parts of the directory hierarchy.

On a more general note, I think a lot of examples assume too much insofar as actually getting set up to apply the examples.

Thanks and looking forward to your comments,

Barry

re: Just Announced: Tellligent Enterprise and Telligent Community

Vesace — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 19:24:22 GMT

Hopefully the new version 5.0 of Telligent Communitywill be easier to integrate custom developed applications with the search system. I say hopefully since it should be straightforward to include any new items into Solr but I still don't know how can we change the platform search engine since I remember reading something about it being obfuscated.

re: Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

nash — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 23:24:28 GMT

hello ben,

How can I create a widget that allows me to display groups with avatar and discription. And also checkboxes to select groups to display.