April 2007 - Posts
This bug is a carry over from CS 2.x which improperly handles BBCodes and Emoticons. You can see this on the communityserver.org site. Every so often you will see a post with smilies that seem out of place, or you may be trying to use BBCodes and they don't quite work properly. This is mostly due to the order in which things are being processed. This fix requires making changes to the SDK, will correct these issues, and add 3 new BBCodes ([code], [notes], and [] which is a BBCode escape for code...
There appears to be a bug with Control Panel / Administration / Blogs / Default Presentation / Aggregate Post Excerpt Size . While you can set this value, it does not appear that it is actually being used. It should limit the size of excerpts in aggregate lists, but it isn't. The following one line change requires access to the SDK: File: CommunityServerBogs20/Components/WeblogPost.cs: At or around line 267, change the following line: get{return GetInt("ExcerptSize",250);} to get{return...
People who know a lot about Community Server, know that if you want to navigate to your blog you need to go to Blogs / Blogs on this Site / <your blog> . The problem is that most people either don't see or don't think about using the Blogs on the Site link. It is also quite a few things to click on. In the post "Control Panel" button not showing up for logged in users , people have made the Control Panel available to everyone who is logged in, which really isn't a very...
Back in 2006 I noticed that BBCodes weren't supported in blogs, so I created the post New Functionality: BBCodes in Blogs to correct this very serious oversight. The same issue exists in CS 2007, so its time to rectify this egregious shortcoming. To do this...( read more ) Read More...
Well, I wrote the following snipit to help out a friend and thought that I may as well post it here too. This snipit uses a few of the features of Chameleon to create a table of all the users in your database. Unmoderated users will be displayed with...( read more ) Read More...
Hey Guys, There seems to be a little confusion about adding comments to the blogs here. I don't allow anonymous comments due to the high volume of spam, but anyone with a registered account can go post crazy. I was forced to implement this rule a...( read more ) Read More...
This new feature requires changes to the SDK and allows you to override the protected AutomatedVisible property of any control that derives from the CommunityServer.Controls.WrappedContentBase class. The AutomatedVisible property is controlled internally...( read more ) Read More...
There appears to be a bug in the method CommunityServer.Components.Globals.GetSkinPath() . If CS is running at the root of the Web Site spaces in the skin filepath name are converted to a + (plus), but if CS is running in a Virtual Directory they are...( read more ) Read More...
Hey All, I'm just getting started with CS 2007, so I thought I'd pick something rather simple. Even though it is possible to implement this mod without making any changes to the SDK, there is a bug that the last change corrects and does require changing...( read more )
Well, Telligent kept it promise and released Community Server 2007 today, but not only did they release the fully compiled version they also released the SDK at the exact same time! It looks like I'm going to have a busy night upgrading my source control...( read more )
I was asked to turn my BBCode module for blogs into an addon, so I added it to my existing CreateUser addon. The instructions are included in the download section and the Readme file in the zip. If you have any questions or issues, let me know. Community...( read more )
Even though both of the posts that I will reference are Community Server related, I decided to make this a personal post as the templates can be used by anyone, for pretty much any purpose: Dave Burke created a very cool post entitled, " A Few Site Template...( read more )
The title rhymes, so what the hey. Well, it looks like my April Fools joke Site Policies: Effective Immediately , went over pretty well. Dave Burke got a kick out of it and even tried to make it more visible with Bill Bosacker is out of control , but I think that he might have been a little...( read more )
Due to the large number of free loaders in the open source community, we have decided to enact the following policy changes: Effective immediately, anyone who wishes to use the site will be required to create an account. All users will be required to...( read more )