June 2007 - Blog Watch

blog bits TelliCast #3 with Ben Tiedt discussing Chameleon is now online. Excellent move by Telligent to attach a .WAV audio version of the podcast to the post. Now us guys with 3-year-old iPods can enjoy TelliCasts on the go. Who IS that handsome man with the shaved head on the banner of that sporty new CS2007 site??? Why, it's the Mabster! Renevo with his Adding pages to Community Server post for CS2007, a tradition he started with CS 2.1. Includes download of the elements discussed in the...

In Episode 3 we talk Chameleon with Ben Tiedt. Chameleon is the new theming engine in Community Server 2007 designed to make theming Community Server easier. The UI controls are now much more robust and flexible. Instead of having a "super-control" per page in Community Server, we now have more generalized "Chameleon" controls related to each piece of data or object in the Community Server API that you can use as needed throughout your skin. Ben also discusses THE Chameleon book...

In Episode 3 we talk Chameleon with Ben Tiedt. Chameleon is the new theming engine in Community Server 2007 designed to make theming Community Server easier. The UI controls are now much more robust and flexible. Instead of having a "super-control" per page in Community Server, we now have more generalized "Chameleon" controls related to each piece of data or object in the Community Server API that you can use as needed throughout your skin. Ben also discusses THE Chameleon book...

blog bits Colin Bowern shows off a new Community Server 2007 theme with an articulate description of his overall first impressions of CS2007. Colin elaborates on implementation inconsistencies across modules, tightly bound application modules and documentation deficiencies. Fellow Browncoat Andrew Tobin has been blogging up a Community Server storm recently, his most recent post detailing his Identicon and Gravatar installation from the CarKnee Bundle for CS2007. A number of other CS posts from grr...

This is the updated WikipediaLinkModule for CS2007. The ZIP file contains both the source for the module as well as a pre-built assembly. See the Readme.txt file for installation and use information. This update also includes a fix that allows the WikipediaLinkModule to be used within the forums application. Example: Welcome to Michigan . UPDATE June 23, 2007: This module has been updated to render XHTML-compliant markup. Read More...

There are about 7 weeks or so left in the Community Server Theme Extravaganza . As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago, we extended the initial deadline to give folks a little more time to work on their entries. We also felt that we could do a couple of things to make it even easier on our users to submit entries. The first of which I am happy to announce today. Introducing: Themes.CommunityServer.org : Themes.CommunityServer.org is a version of Community Server which allows you the end user to build...

Jose Lema sat down for a few minutes and discussed Morpheus with Ado on the newest episode of Tellicast. Catch the video here. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! | Dot it! | Seed Newsvine Read More......( read more ) Read More...

Site articles are Content Parts, and in CS2007 (and prior, though I don't know how far back) they can be displayed on a single page. The /themes/[theme]/content/content.aspx page can be used to format the articles just the way you like them. I haven't used this feature so my demo page isn't all pretty the way it should be, but it gives you the idea of what a site article page looks like. The url of a Site Article is http://mysite/content/contentpartname.aspx. The contentpart name is shown...

This week we visit with Jose Lema and get an education on Morpheus, the architecture behind the Membership and Roles system in Community Server 2007. Morpheus allows you to select an external store for your membership and roles data so if you have an application with membership data in it and you'd like to add Community Server functionality to your offering, you can point Community Server 2007 at your existing membership rather than importing and synchronizing your membership data in multiple...

I couldn't resist answering a question on CS Forums on selected navigation and how to link to an article, since the questioner ended with "So, basically, the articles feature for the main site is neutered?" When someone throws down a neutered challenge, I'm all over it. My argument, by the way, was that to link to an article from the Site Navigation Menu, a new SiteUrls.config link element and a SelectedNavigation CSControl line in a copied blog theme.master does not a neutered...

I've received a few emails asking for more details on how to share a blog in Community Server. This was something I had to account for in the Multi-date Calendar Blog, and so the Queensryche Calendar Blog Series continues with "Sharing a Blog, Track 1." The main thing we need to handle when sharing a blog is preventing users from editing other authors' posts and from making global changes to the blog. We'll start with isolating users from other authors' posts and begin on...

blog bits The current build of Community Server is now 3.0.20611.960. Congratulations to the Core Development Team on a substantial SP release with CS2007 SP2. Give Glenn Wilson's cool Digg Add-on for Community Server a Big ol' Digg. A "ramble" on how Community Server enables the display of User Common Names. Not intended to be instructional, otherwise I would have titled it a "thesis," "exegesis" or some other word with "esis" in it. A Community Server...