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  • Dynamic Navigation Add On for Community Server

    Common requests for new users of Community Server are "how do I edit the navigation bar?", "how do I add a second level of navigation items?", and "how do I add drop-down menus to the navigation items?" In all of these cases, changes are required to a few config files, some...
    Published April 26, 2008

  • Dynamic Navigation Support

    This add-on to Community Server 2007 and 2008, adds support for editing the navigation items of a site through the theme configuration page in the site's control panel. The add-on supports: A single row of navigation items Multiple rows of navigation items One or more rows of navigation items and...
    Published April 26, 2008

  • 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

  • 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

  • Adding New Themed Pages in CS2007

    To add a new page to a theme in CS2007, Add the page to SiteUrls_Override.config The SiteUrls.config file defines all of the rewritten URLs within Community Server. The SiteUrls_Override.config file within the root of the Community Server installation can be used to customize the base SiteUrls.config...
    Published May 14, 2007

  • Updates to Creating New Themes in CS2007

    I just wanted to point out that I made a few changes to the Creating New Themes in CS2007 post to highlight some common changes that will need to be made when copying the out-of-the-box site themes. The changes include notes to update the name and preview information of newly created themes and instructions...
    Published May 2, 2007

  • Chameleon Pager Controls

    One topic that could have been covered more in my Introduction to Chameleon posts is pager controls. Pager controls in Community Server 2007 are now completely customizable, interchangeable, groupable, and support some cool new features. As I mentioned when introducing list controls , most list controls...
    Published March 9, 2007

  • Introduction to Chameleon: Utility Controls

    This is a post in my blog series Introduction to Chameleon ... Chameleon includes a set of utility controls to help theme developers implement custom themes. In this post, I'll list and describe some of these utility controls. Some of the more notable utility controls include: ConditionalAction ...
    Published January 28, 2007
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