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Community Server 2008 - How to Upgrade Themes from CS2007 to CS2008

My last article outlined the changes made to Chameleon and Theming between CS2007 and CS2008 and could be used as a guide for an in-depth, manual upgrade of a CS2007 theme to CS2008. In this article, however, I'll provide my suggested approach to upgrading themes for CS2008. Upgrading a CS2007 Site...

Published April 18, 2008
Community Server 2008 - Changes to Chameleon

In this post, I'll outline the changes to the Chameleon theming engine (and themes in general) between Community Server 2007 and Community Server 2008. If you're interested in the changes to themes between an earlier version of Community Server (before 2007) and the 2008 version, I suggest reading...

Published April 16, 2008
Watch Theming Community Server from CSDC'07 (Part 1)

Part one of Wyatt and my talk about theming Community Server from CSDC '07 is now available on the Telligent web site. This video provides an overview of Community Server theming, URL rewriting, and the Chameleon theming language. Go watch it now...

Published February 14, 2008
"Professional Community Server Themes" Now Available!

It appears that online booksellers such as Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble now report " Professional Community Server Themes " as being "In Stock!" I'm very excited that this book is finally available! This book covers most everything about themes -- understanding how URL rewriting...

Published October 31, 2007
What Would You Like to Know about Chameleon?

I've been working on adding content and documentation to the Themes topic on docs.communityserver.org . Please check out the new information and see what you think. Now, after you've looked around, what's missing? What would you like to know about Chameleon or theming in Community Server...

Published September 19, 2007
Chameleon Property Documentation

I just wanted to point out a recent update to the docs.communityserver.org site that should help theme developers using Chameleon . Documentation for single value and condition controls which access objects within the Community Server API has been added to list all of the available properties exposed...

Published September 11, 2007
Some Notes about Community Server 2007.1

I've just added descriptions and notes to docs.communityserver.org regarding some of the changes in CS2007.1 (previously known as SP3 ) I was involved with: Tags: Is there a way to hide TagClouds when they have no tags to display? Introduction to Chameleon: New TruncationEllipsisTemplate on Single...

Published August 28, 2007
Discussing Chameleon on Telligent.com

Ado just posted the latest installment of the TelliCast video blog series in which I get to talk about Chameleon , Dynamic Configuration, and another project I'm working on...

Published June 25, 2007
Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

A common Community Server customization involves adding fields to the registration form (CreateUserForm control) and performing custom actions based on these fields. Chameleon provides an easy way to extend the CreateUserForm control by using Sub-Forms. Sub-Forms are controls that can be registered against...

Published June 15, 2007
CS2007 Chameleon Base Classes

For those of you diving into the Community Server 2007 SDK and learning about the inner workings of Chameleon to create custom controls , I thought it would be helpful to outline the base control classes available to Chameleon control developers. The list below outlines the base controls existing within...

Published May 17, 2007

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