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Beginning in CS 2.0 Beta 1, we made the URLs that CS will " ping " weblog updates with configurable, and set Pingomatic.com as the single default one. This was because Pingomatic redistributes the pings it receives to all the other major blog ping services. Unfortunately, the Pingomatic.com…
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A common forum question, ”How do I enable a single blog at the root of my site?”. In CS 2.0, we attempted to make this as easy as possible to configure. Dan Bartels has a nice write up on how to do this in about 30 seconds or less . We are also planning on making this an MSI installation option for the…
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Alex has posted a demo of the new Enterprise Search http://forums.asp.net/es Besides being super quick, one of the new features, is field level searching. For example, if you wanted to find all links on forums.asp.net to my own site, you could search for link:scottwater.com . The index contains a little…
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Build 50811 was posted. How many new features can you find?
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Forgot to mention, we are now using a version of FreeTextBox on CS.org that supports IE7. Please let us know if you see anything out of the ordinary related to it. If all goes well, we will post the update shortly.
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As stated before, the core goal of CS 1.2 is simplicity. This is mostly geared towards the UI, but things like installing should be easier as well. A first step towards making installation easier was to make virtualization* optional. CS 1.0/1.1 shipped with virtualization on by default. Starting in CS…
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Looking to run only the forums? See Alex’s summary here . A goal in 1.2 is to provide single application only (ie, forum only) out of box. For now, it looks like it can be done in about 4 steps.
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Creating ads in CS 1.0/1.1 is simple, but it is drawn out over 3 separate steps. One of the features on the table for CS 1.2 is to make this its own separate editor…which should speed things up. For now, you can create ads by completing the following steps: Open the skin-ads.ascx file (/themes/default…
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A couple people have asked how to query values stored in Community Servers Extended Attributes*. The short answer is you don’t. We generally only place values in EA’s if we do not believe CS will ever need to query against them. However, in some custom situations, you may want to access these values…
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A recent forum question asked how to make the profile link more apparent? A quick change you can make is to add a custom tab. Open up the siteurls.config and in the navigation element, add the following: <link name=”profile” resourceUrl=”user_EditProfile_Clean” text=”Profile” roles=”Registered Users…
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While tracking down a bug or two in the CS 1.1 release canidates we managed to get a couple of other user requested features checked in. In most cases, when making a new post in the forums, you should now be redirected to the new post..regardless of the paging and sorting. If a user requests a post which…
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This should not affect too many of you, but we have renamed many of the CSModule events to be more conistent and easier to follow. For example, BeforeGroup (the event fired before a new group is created/or existing group is updated) has been renamed PreSectionGroupUpdate. The API itself is still the…
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There are quite a few tweaks to the blog home page. By default, we will now display the user’s name instead of the username/blogname (if name does not exist, we will still use the username) The markup has been updated If the post was made in the last 24 hours, we will let you know You can limit the number…
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Dan Bartels (one of newer team members) has posted a nice summary of what changed in the blog skins from CS 1.0 to CS 1.1. Our goal is to lock the public API (skins included) in 1.2, but the blog skins should be very stable for the remainder of CS 1.x.
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CS 1.1 now ships with a custom error page ( error.htm ). If you are integrating CS with a custom site, you may want to update your web.config to redirect to another page. Also note, this page is no longer an ASPX page, so there is no skinning/master pages/etc available. Errors that can be handled will…