Community Server on my mind

How to add new users to different roles on the fly

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Using Localizable E-mail Templates

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Correction of one of my old posts

Previously on J-O Erikssons blog: A long, long time ago. At least in Internet Time. At J-O Eriksson's old blog there was an article about a solution to handle sending Newsletters to your Community Server users with the help of CS Roles . As time went Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

The forgotten notifications (a new CSModule)

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

A less painful way to upgrade to a Service Pack

Have you not yet upgraded your Community Server sites to Community Server 2.1 SP 1, because it seems to be to much work, and you don't want it to go wrong and just haven't got the time right now to do I properly? Service Packs are an important way to Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

How to learn where your users click

Implementing a more clear menu, like I did the other day, and do other changes to you blog, might be of no meaning at all if you're not aware of how/if they are used. Assuming your blog is for you readers, and not just a personal journal for yourself, Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Improving the Community Server Blog

For those of you reading my posts from the web page, rather than through RSS, might notice that I have done some small changes to my blog. First I've tried to make the top menu a bit clearer. So for instance I renamed the item 'E-mail', which could be Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

How to create a WeblogThemedControl

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Adding more buttons to TinyMCE in CS

Community Server 2.1 uses TinyMCE as the build-in editor for posting in forums, blogs etc. You can choose in your profile if you want to run the Standard or Enhanced implementation of TinyMCE in CS. Figure 1: Content Editor Options in your profile Even Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Filtering out Text Part functionality from Comments

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Videos on the CS Home Page

After writing the article " CSModule for MSN SoapBox " I got a question on how to put up a Soapbox video on the Home Page of Community Server . And since the last 2 articles has been about Soapbox and CS, why not have one more? Tell me if it's Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Building a simple CSModule that uses CS Text Parts (The SoapBox Sample)

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Setting up the SDK in VS 2005

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 Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Go directly to site admin and skip the dashboard

This might be a small thing for most people, but I find it somewhat irritating to end up at the dashboard each time I want to go to the Site Administration. I click the Control Panel button, and the Dashboard appears, and I always click on Administration Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!

Changing order of your forums

This is an old question I've seen asked many times, all the way back to the ASP .NET Forums time. At that time you had to manually go into the SQL Database and change the values of the SortOrder field. I think at sometime there was an up and down Read More... If you enjoyed this post Subscribe to my feed via RSS or e-mail!