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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

  • 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

  • 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
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