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Community Server 2008 Hack-a-thon

One of the fun benefits of working for Telligent is the ability to participate in regular "hack-a-thon" contests. These contests usually involve working with a new feature or product and result in great prizes! Last week, while the Community Server team was in Dallas, we had a hack-a-thon to...

Published May 9, 2008
Community Server 2008 - Groups Overview

Community Server 2008 includes a new feature, Groups. Groups are miniature community sites within the larger community site, similar to Google- or Yahoo-groups. Each Group has its own content, membership, and permissions. What's in a Group? A group can contain a single blog, single media gallery...

Published May 5, 2008
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
Community Server 2008 - Centralized File System (CFS) Overview

In Community Server 2007 and earlier versions, the many file-related features (post attachments, site files, blog files, avatars, role icons, etc) all implemented their own file management logic and supported (a) storing files in the database (b) storing files in the file system or (c) configurable options...

Published April 24, 2008
Community Server 2008 - Implementing Custom File Viewers

File viewers are the unsung heroes that make Community Server 2008 media-friendly. They implement the support for viewing and resizing images, viewing uploaded and remote video files, viewing video from online video services, and playing uploaded and remote audio clips. Without file viewers, the media...

Published April 23, 2008
Improved Chameleon Documentation for Community Server 2008

The updates to the official documentation sites are still a little way out, so, in the meantime, I've gotten permission to post the new, improved Chameleon control documentation on this site. Here it is: CS2008 Chameleon Documentation The new Chameleon documentation merges the old CHM download file...

Published April 21, 2008
Community Server 2008 - How to Implement Custom Widgets

After adding support for widgets in custom themes , it may be useful to create a few custom widgets. Widgets in Community Server 2008 (internally identified as content fragments) are server-side .net classes implementing the CommunityServer.Components.IContentFragment interface. Community Server will...

Published April 21, 2008
Using Widgets in Community Server 2008

This video shows an example of editing and rearranging widgets in Community Server 2008.

Published April 18, 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

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