January 2008 - Blog Watch

This may seem like a minor nuglet, but it's another of those Chameleon features that fall into the category of "I like how that Ben Tiedt thinks!" Community Server Chameleon really is a marvelous architecture and I enjoy discovering little gems like the CSThemePageBase class's SetTitle() method overrides that not only enable you to set a page title, but to bind the same string to a WrappedLiteral control as well. A Twofer! Hey, I told you it was a minor nuglet. It's still pretty...

The (PRODUCT) RED blog highlights the platform’s ability to offer a scalable blogging platform while maintaining and maximizing brand fidelity. COMMUNITY SERVER in ACTION Telligent worked with Dell™ in the past on a blog initiative and is currently in a long-standing relationship with Microsoft®. So when these two partners invited Telligent to participate in the worthwhile (RED) project by developing a scalable blog around the newest PRODUCT (RED) products, the team jumped at the opportunity to partner...

The Community Server Controls source library contains a WrappedContentBase class that can be extended for a variety of purposes, making it very easy to build context-aware controls to use in conjunction with other CS Chameleon List, Data and Form controls. If you search ": WrappedContentBase" in the Community Server SDK you'll find examples of controls derived from the class performing various functions. I'm going to demonstrate using a smart image link to display a custom email...

The world is moving to LINQ and here I am still learning how to think in Generics. Take this quick example of how I am learning about generic economics. I have a Community Server Chameleon List control of hours billed per week on all jobs per employee and wanted to display total hours. I was thinking, okay, a #temp SQL table, calculate the total, shoot it back to the control. Or no, add a second select to the stored proc and grab the total in a datareader.NextResult(). Then Generics Thought kicked...

There are some great tools built into Community Server. TelliCast #32 highlights some of the things we've done to make your life easier. In this video we talk about blogging with Windows Live Writer, using blog file storage, tweaking images with the attribute editor and we show how we write our video posts. View Video Format: wmv Duration: 13:45 Download Video...( read more ) Read More...

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Community Server Chameleon Forms are placed on an .ASPX page like any ASP.NET control, with each control within the form declared when its created. Here's an example. <DBVT:LaborUpdateForm ID="LaborUpdateForm1" runat="server" LaborPhaseDropDownListId="PhaseDropDown" LaborShiftDropDownListId="ShiftDropDown" HoursTextBoxId="HoursTextBox" UpdateButtonId="UpdateButton"> It's easy to think of a Chameleon form as strictly a collection...

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...

blog bits Ask Crome, a prolific resource for answers on CS Forums posts a comprehensive list of Addons for Community Server 2007. Roman Nikitin in Russia wrote an Invision Power Board to Community Server 2007 converter. Source available. forum bits Ken provides a smidgen on group support coming in CS2008. "A group will support having a forum, blog, and media gallery. They are only allowed one of each." Ken reminds us of a defective upgrade script in the MSI installer and how to rectify...

Ken Robertson is a Telligent developer and spends a few minutes with us in Episode 31 giving a short demo of how easy it is to install and set up Graffiti. I gathered the following steps from his excellent work: 1. Set up web host. 2. Change connection string in web.config to point to provided blank file-based db (unless you like the default data). 3. FTP small 7.5 MB upload to host 4. Grab snack and maybe a Dew 5. Navigate to site in your favorite browser 6. Say to yourself, "Boom - now I'm...