December 2007 - Blog Watch

I was throwing a new CS2007.1 site on my development server on Christmas Eve when I encountered the error below. The SDK compiled clean, the cs_3.0_CreateFullDatabase.sql ran without a glitch and my connectionstring.config was correct, yet I couldn't display the site. Granted, this isn't the most illuminating error, and it is in fact wrong, as the error has nothing to do with a missing SiteUrls.Config. That isn't to say that this is a problem with Community Server, not at all, as it was...

TelliCast #30 finds us visiting with Dan Bartels who has spent significant time over the last year working on Community Server's REST API. REST uses HTTP posts, gets, heads, puts and deletes to manipulate data within a Community Server implementation. We learn that Dan wrote the REST implementation under, perhaps, a little duress? You can hardly tell... View Video Format: wmv Duration: 8:29 Download Video...( read more ) Read More...

In episode 29, José Lema will let us in on some of the new things you'll find in Community Server 2008. A big focus has been placed on groups and social networking features. We've revamped private messages by building a new messaging system that breaks such conversations out of forums and makes messaging a stand-alone feature. We've also brought some concepts from Graffiti into Community Server including UI widgets and drag-and-drop UI manipulation. So, in short, CS2008 is going to be...

In episode 29, José Lema will let us in on some of the new things you'll find in Community Server 2008. A big focus has been placed on groups and social networking features. We've revamped private messages by building a new messaging system that breaks such conversations out of forums and makes messaging a stand-alone feature. We've also brought some concepts from Graffiti into Community Server including UI widgets and drag-and-drop UI manipulation. So, in short, CS2008 is going to be...

As the intro says, "We'd like to thank you for selecting the director commentary feature of this video..." In TelliCast #28, we share some pictures and fun times from Telligent's first three years. Please note that we don't have an audio only version of this TelliCast. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 12:25 Download Video Read More...

Last week we announced we announced that a beta of Reporting Server 2007 is available . I published a few screenshots in the announcement on my blog. So far the feedback has been great! You can get Reporting Server 2007 Beta 1 here: http://get.communityserver.org/download/reporting/ We also recently announced Graffiti 1.0 . Graffiti is a simple to use Content Management System (CMS). It also works really well for blogging too. Graffiti is the recommended option for individuals and small businesses...

I needed to send out an email to members of a billing group in my Community Server Business App when a job was marked complete. I could have done something simple, but I wanted to do something cool and dig a bit deeper in the API since I had the opportunity. So I created a new emails.xml <email /> template and populated those template email tokens with data from custom objects. Here's the email that is produced before I get into the geeky details. Notice the nice HTML formatting. I typically...

Rob Howard visits with Eric " The Profit " Smith of CodeSmith Tools in TelliCast #27. Eric shares the history of CodeSmith relating how it came to be and also discusses how CodeSmith generates code, what templates come out of the box and where to get more information if you want to build your own custom templates for code generation. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 8:19 Download Video Read More...

In our last episode we finished the modules that gather purchased and truck inventory materials in our Community Server-based Jobs Management Application, and so it was time to start doing something useful with all of that data. A Job Slips module was the first application, giving Project Managers the ability to generate a printout of the day's time and material charges on the job site at the end of the day, with the day's charges approved by client signature. This was previously a task performed...

There are a few things you should consider when deploying CS2007. We sat down with David Penton again this week (btw, we're very thankful for David Penton ) and talked about basic SQL setup and tracking and planning for growth. It's good stuff. When you think of a question, and we're sure you will, be sure to post it below so we can go back to David and get him break it down for us. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 16:17 Download Video...( read more ) Read More...

Hans Hugli, a friend of mine (we worked together Microsoft's evangelism team during the heady dot-com days) and developer on Microsoft's UberDemo team wrote up a great article on SharePoint and Community Server integration. Below is an excerpt: The business scenario discussed in this article is how to enable Community Server site users to log on to sites that are running Microsoft SharePoint Products and Technologies, by using the same credentials they use to log on to their Community Server...