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  • Community Server does "Am I ___ or Not?"

    We're always working on something cool at Telligent , whether it be an entirely new product or some type of addition or extension to Community Server . Some good examples are some of the things we came up with in Hackathon II, including the couple of IM clients that work with Community Server messaging. If you haven't already read about some of the thing we came up with you can see them here and here . Recently over a late night IM session with Dave Donaldson , we pondered the benefits of…
    Published Tue, Jul 29 2008 12:05 AM by Digging My Blog – Dan Hounshell : Community Server
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  • Hello Community Server Team

    The last couple of weeks have been very busy and very different for me. Two weeks ago today I relinquished my hold on the ASP.NET Sites' Team, where for nearly the last two years I have been working on www.asp.net , forums.asp.net , weblogs.asp.net and wiki.asp.net . I transitioned to the Telligent Product Team, specifically the Community Server Team. Joining the CS team was actually a goal of mine since I joined Telligent in September 2006. Since I started in the business (early '99) I've…
    Published Mon, Jul 7 2008 11:36 PM by Digging My Blog – Dan Hounshell : Community Server

  • What is a Good Online Video Service for Screencasts?

    I'd like to start posting more video-based demonstrations and walk-throughs of theming and customizing Community Server , but I don't really want to store the videos on my shared web host (and pay for storage and bandwidth). What is a good online video service for screencasts? Blip.tv ? Vimeo ? Veoh ? Other? Please let me know in the comments. Also, please let me know of any topics that you'd like me to cover. Read More…
    Published Thu, May 8 2008 10:59 AM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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, single forum, and can also contain "pages." The blog, media gallery, and forum can be individual enabled by the group owner. The blog, media gallery, and forum behave exactly the same as the…
    Published Mon, May 5 2008 5:35 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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 additional javascript needs to be added, and, even then, the items are only editable by modifying the theme files. To make these changes/scenarios easier, I've implemented a new add-on for Community…
    Published Sat, Apr 26 2008 11:04 AM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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 gallery would be the file gallery from CS2007. File viewers are supported when rendering post attachments or by using the "Insert Media" toolbar item in the content editor for blog/media/forum…
    Published Wed, Apr 23 2008 10:13 AM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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 and property documentation (along with some additional information and assumptions) to provide a single, integrated, searchable, control-based reference for all Chameleon controls in CS2008. It also…
    Published Mon, Apr 21 2008 6:26 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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 load all classes implementing this interface from all assemblies in the bin/ folder and make them available in the widget selection form (subject to application-type filters) — there is no additional…
    Published Mon, Apr 21 2008 2:38 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • Community Server 2008 – How to Support Widgets in a Custom Theme

    After updating a custom theme for CS2008 , support for widgets can be added. Community Server 2008 provides built-in support for extending Dynamic Theme Configuration to support selecting custom widgets to be displayed within a theme. CS2008 includes widgets for showing post lists, user lists, group lists, tag clouds, custom HTML (including viewer support for videos, images, and audio), as well as external widgets from Google, Widgetbox, and Springwidgets. Here's a short example of using widgets…
    Published Fri, Apr 18 2008 6:56 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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 Theme for CS2008 Remove Old Files/Folders The following files and folders are no longer used in CS2008 and should be removed (if they exist) to prevent unnecessary review when upgrading to future versions…
    Published Fri, Apr 18 2008 12:28 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • 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 my Introduction to Chameleon posts from the release of CS2007. New Functionality Community Server 2008 merges the File Gallery and Photo Gallery applications into a single Media Gallery application…
    Published Wed, Apr 16 2008 5:22 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • Community Server 2008 – Notes, Changes, and New Features

    As announced earlier today , Community Server 2008 is now available ! CS2008 includes many exciting new features: embedded video and audio, real friend support, widgets, mini-communities a.k.a. groups, improved messaging, and more. To help everyone make the jump to CS2008, I plan on publishing technical articles covering features that I was involved with: Changes to Chameleon (CS2007 to CS2008) How to Upgrade Themes from CS2007 to CS2008 How to Support Widgets in a Custom Theme How to Implement Custom…
    Published Tue, Apr 15 2008 8:05 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • System.NullReferenceException when starting Community Server News Gateway Windows Service

    Yesterday a colleague wrote, "It's hard to believe you had 27 blog posts in one month a year ago." I think that his disbelief was triggered by my lack of regular posts recently compared to my abundance of posts then. Last night I took a look back through some of those posts from this time last year to see what the heck I was doing that would give me enough material to post nearly once per day. One of the things I was working on was the WhatIWantMost project, but the other was that I…
    Published Fri, Feb 15 2008 2:17 AM by Digging My Blog – Dan Hounshell : Community Server

  • 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… Read More…
    Published Thu, Feb 14 2008 6:02 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming

  • Dynamic Configuration in Graffiti CMS

    As was mentioned at the CSDC'07 back in October, Dynamic Configuration support is being used in more places. Today, it was announced that Graffiti CMS (a new product by Telligent ) now supports global variables. This feature is implemented using the same Dynamic Configuration support used in Community Server. The great news is that if you are familiar with defining configuration meta-data in Community Server, you already will know how to define configuration data in Graffiti! Both Community Server…
    Published Thu, Jan 17 2008 3:04 PM by Ben Tiedt’s Blog : Chameleon, Skinning, Theming
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