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As some of you might already have seen, the Community Server MVP's CSModule pack has a new release. The new package is called Cinnabar, and is targeted for CS 2007. So if you want to use your favorite CSModule pack on your new upgraded to CS 2007 site this is the package to download. It also has...
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Sometimes there might be a need to add your users to different roles, depending on certain invitations, at registration time. Is that possible in Community Server (CS)? Well, in this case CSModules can be your friend as in many other situations. The other day there was a request for this functionality...
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Wouldn't it be great to be able to standardize how mails sent from your Community Server site looks, and to be able to change them on demand without having to re-compile anything? As you might know Community Server (CS) already has a built-in system for this. This localizable template system is used...
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Do you have any forums posts that have been caught by a spam rule? Or do you have any forums posts that haven't been approved for other reasons? It's not easy to know unless you frequently visit your Control Panel -> Forums to Moderate . I have had sites where I discovered posts that were several...
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If you have your Community Server web site at a hoster, have you been confronted with the issue of a growing CS Database? In a conversation with Keyvan the other day, he pointed me to a forum thread at communityserver.org, and hinted that this might be a good idea for a CSJob. In that thread a user wants...
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If you have your Community Server web site at a hoster, have you been confronted with the issue of a growing CS Database? In a conversation with Keyvan the other day, he pointed me to a forum thread at communityserver.org, and hinted that this might be a good idea for a CSJob. In that thread a user wants...
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Want to create a Community Server control that adapts to your blog's theme/skin? Community Server (CS) contains a class named WeblogThemedControl, which is used for many of the built in blog controls in CS. One of the features of the WeblogThemedControl is that it has a corresponding .ASCX file usually...
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After I posted the article about the Popular Topics yesterday, Thomas Freudenberg asked me: "Maybe I'm wrong, but isn't AggregatePostList supposed to do this?" He also pointed me to an article from May this year , posted by Jaxon Rice. And, of course, Thomas is correct! The AggregatePostList control...
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Whether you are a developer, or a Community Server admin that haven't got much experience of .NET Development, I believe you should benefit from this article. This article gives you an overview of what CSModules are, how can you benefit from them, and also a collection of resources to find out more,...
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As I've mentioned before, I have been working a bit on a CSJob for initially forcing users to change passwords after a specified amount of time. And I thought I'd share some ideas around it this article, and see if it would be a usable CSJob. I have most of the code working in my development...
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When I posted my update regarding the SoapBox CSModule this weekend, I must have been a bit confused. I said I made 2 changes, but realized now that one of those changes was already in the first version. What I mean is the functionality to set a custom message for syndicated feeds. It was already there...
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Last Friday I posted about a new CSModule that I had just created for showing MSN SoapBox videos in Community Server . Inspired by Gary McPherson's YouTube CSModule which is included in the Alabaster CSModule Package, and by looking through the source code of Ken Robertson's Qgyen.Lightbox CSModule...
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Dave mentioned this in his Monday daily news post , but I thought it was worth repeating and also correcting Dave's statement a bit. In the daily news it says Dave Stokes released a document detailing the installation of Community Server 2.1. It's actually more than that. He describes how to set up CS...
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A few weeks ago, the Community Server MVP's released a package of CSModule's , which we called Alabaster. It contained a couple of CSModule's developed by a couple of us MVP's. My contribution to Alabaster was a module called NewUserDefaults, which I like to talk a little bit more about...