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Developers should have to use the apps they build, or in my particular case, are in the process of building.  I thought fellow devs would find the morning’s updates to the Sueetie Wall Message Editor interesting, if for no other reason than being able to relate with updating an app’s insufficiencies because you use the thing. And I’ve been using the newest Sueetie Wall titled The Edge a lot, covering the community happenings of YetAnotherForum.NET, BlogEngine.NET, Gallery Server Pro and ScrewTurn...

I read a recent article on Smashing Magazine about creating custom taxonomies in WordPress and thought, "Ooooo, I want that!"  I also happened to be thinking about a new Wall on Sueetie.com with news and tips on BlogEngine.NET, YetAnotherForum.NET, Gallery Server Pro and ScrewTurn Wiki (announcement soon) and knew that a beefy categorization feature was a must.  The result is the introduction of a Taxonomy architecture that can be used on a Sueetie Wall and in the future, elsewhere...

I couldn’t let the first release of Sueetie Walls go out the door without providing the ability to edit wall posts.  Wall Message Editing is optional as a Wall Configuration setting.  When the "CanEditMessages" Wall Property is enabled users can edit their own messages as can Site Content Administrators.  I should mention that users cannot delete messages on a Sueetie Wall, as only Content Administrators can delete both messages and comments. How to Edit a Wall Message Wall...

I've been saying from the beginning that Sueetie Walls were designed to support multiple walls on a community site, so I thought we could walk through the process of creating a new wall. We Start at the Sueetie Application Level Remember that each wall is viewed as a Sueetie Application, like Forums, the Wiki, a Blog, etc., so that is where we'll begin the process of creating a new Wall. We're going to create a wall for Stephen King aficionados. I have King on the brain because I just...

A quick blog post to announce that Wall Messages are now fully integrated in Sueetie Global Search.  I had originally planned on adding Wall Comments as well, but decided to stay with Wall Messages only for now.  While adding new data types to Sueetie Search is an easy process, I felt comments in search results would produce more noise than signal. Here's a sample search result with Wall Messages in the mix.  You'll notice "Wall" as one of the optional search areas...

Sueetie Wall Messages now support the display of inline code blocks.  This may seem like a simple feature to add, but converting the message to simple HTML and preserve multiple coding blocks made it interesting.  Message are normally first stripped of all HTML and line breaks replaced with </p><p> tags.  That wouldn't work to preserve HTML and other code types, so the approach I used was to convert the message string to a StringReader and applying logic line-by-line...

With Sueetie v4.0 shaping up to be a solid Social Media Platform for the Enterprise, I needed to be sure Sueetie could support corporate sites that support multiple IIS host names. An example would be a site accessed both externally and internally, externally at, say, http://external.coolcompany.com and internally at http://coolcompanynet. WCF is able to support only a single base address out of the box, and errors to the server Event Log would be generated for any site whose identity does not conform...

The Sueetie Wall now supports message attachments uploaded directly from the desktop. Attachments are one of several fun features not officially announced but in the works.  Like message images, file attachments are uploaded prior to a message being posted using the procedure shown below. To display the attachment upload area click on the paperclip icon circled below. After selecting your files click the "Upload Files" button. Your message attachments are now listed with a delete icon...

Mark off another item on the Sueetie v4.0 To-Do List.  Sueetie now supports Active Directory!  With the recent announcement of running Sueetie in a subdirectory along with Active Directory Support, Version 4 is shaping up to be a pretty rockin' Enterprise Social Media Platform. Here's how Sueetie Active Directory Integration works. Sueetie doesn't talk directly to Active Directory Domain Services since every company approaches the user data they store in Active Directory differently...

A new Featured Product View Control coming in Sueetie v4.0.  It's a simple control that can be easily customized with Sueetie's standard View Templating Model, just as its Sueetie List View cousins.  You can use the control anywhere on your site, not just in the Marketplace. The intention of the Sueetie Marketplace Featured Product View Control is to give Marketplace owners the ability to designate a single product as their Featured Product. The View Control also gives you the ability...

A long-time client of mine needed a new corporate community site for which Sueetie was of course the perfect solution. The problem was that the site had to be located in a subdirectory of an existing domain, so it was time to make Sueetie “Subdirectory Friendly.” You'll be hearing more about my client's new Sueetie corporate community site, but the news of the day is that Sueetie now runs in a subdirectory. That's going to make Sueetie a great community option in many more environments...

An important aspect of a "Wall" application that people might not think about is how to handle individual Wall Message and Comment permalinks.  The content produced by Wall Messages and Comments has a lot of value, and without permalinks the value of that content is drastically reduced.  In Sueetie, Wall Messages and Comments are also integrated into the Data Core for features like Site Activity lists and searching, so we need to easily reference each and every wall message and...

A seriously updated Sueetie CMS is online and ready for the vNext release of Sueetie.  We'll shake out the details in a second, but first the insane list of updates. Deleted CMS pages are now removed from Sueetie Search, as are any tags used with the page and any content parts on the page.  Also, CMS pages set to Inactive Status are removed from Sueetie Search CMS pages can now be moved to other groups CMS pages can now be duplicated along with all their content parts New CMS Management...