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I was thinking, maybe something in this direction, with a little music, and a lot of colors, and flowers...that would be nice....look at the girl with the sun in her eyes...oooops, was I dreaming? Sorry. Another kind of those weekend posting, I should
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I won't have any screencast today as I usually have on Fridays. Why? Simply because it's getting hard to find good ideas for screencast's every week , and I don't want to start doing any topic just to keep the "schedule". But
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Ok, I'll admit it! What I am going to show you in today's screencast, works well in earlier versions of Excel as well. But the title looks more cool if I write Excel 2007. And that's what I am using in the screencast as well. The topic is admin reports.
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I guess you all have seen the new Tag feature in Community Server 2.1 by now? It's a great way to categorize content all through your CS site, and then navigate by "tag clouds" to easier find what your looking for. So now we got one more
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In today's screencast I want to show you another, in the line of, what I call "hidden" features of Community Server. Namely the import function in a photo gallery. IMO it's not located in a place where you might expect it to be. You will find it under the 'Advanced Photo Settings' in the control panel of a gallery. I believe it should go under Common Tasks and/or Manage Content. It would be more logical, and easier to find.
Although the screencast is recorded with CS 2.1 Beta 1, this function was also in CS 2.0 (at the same location). I believe this is a feature that comes all the way from the preceding nGallery application, it was present there as well in very similar appearence.
So what can you do with it? Well, you can upload a batch of photos (for example via FTP) to your web, into the folder created for the gallery you want to import pictures to. Then, as you can see in the screenshot above, you can import them either to the root of the gallery, or to a sub gallery. This is of course much faster than uploading the pictures one by one if you have a lot of pictures to upload at once.
The import job is a so called CSJob in CS. It is within the same thread as most other jobs by default, and it's interval is by default set to 15 minutes. So have patience if your photos doesn't show up at once after you've pressed import. The interval can be changed, but be aware of the side effects on other jobs and your site's performance if you do that.
OK, enough talk, let's roll up, roll up for the Magical Mystery Tour, step right this way!
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Friday and screencast time again! This time on a feature some have talked about before. Dave Burke has some excellent tips for using them here , Adonis Bitar talks about how he uses them . I am talking about Text Parts, or as they seems to be called now,
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In todays screencast I show you how to enable Thread Status Tracking in Community Server, and also enable it for a particular forum. Thread Status Tracking (TST) could be useful for i.e. a support forum where you want to be able to rapidly see which questions/issues are not yet solved and take action on those. Click on the picture below, or the link beneath it to watch the screencast.
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Also, I promised in my monday post to talk about a solution that you could make with this function together with the features that the Email Gateway (EG) brings to Community Server Forums.
A simple support system on CS with Email enabled forums and Thread Status Tracking
Let's say you want to setup a customer support service for your customer. In some scenarios there could be reasons where you don't want the customers to see each others posts. They might be giving you some info about their environment under some NDA agreement etc. You could probably do some code to make users only see their own posts in the forum, but with the solution I am talking about you don't have to write a single line of code.
In the scenario I am describing, you might decide to enable on one hand an open support forum for everyone, and an e-mail support service for paying customers. So you set up an internal CS on your intranet, install EG, and configure a forum to recieve e-mails sent to support AT mydomainname.com. Since the paying customers are registered in someway, you have created and configured accounts (enabled notifications etc) for them in the support system.
The customers sends their support requests by e-mail, which ends up in the internal support forum as a post with a Thread Status 'Unresloved'. A technician replies in the forum to the post, which then gets sent to the customer by e-mail. The customer and support tech, continues their conversation in this way until the issue is solved.
After using this system for a while it becomes a knowledge base which the technicans can search for earlier answers to questions. If tagging is used they could also find similar issues easily by navigating by tags.
If I understand the Passive Mode of the forum mailing list, you have to enable that for the above to work, since you don't want to have all replies sent to everybody, just to the one that started the thread.
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On wednesday I talked about post attachements, and referred to a post by Keyvan Nayyeri on how to do attachements programatically. Today I thought I'd talk about attaching a video to your forum posts, which can be played right in the post itself. It's not really attaching a video to a post, it's more like embedding a player which plays a video located at a different location.
Community Server got this built-in and out of the box. It looks something like this:
Sorry for the typo in the picture and in the screencast. Discovered it when I had finished it all. :-)
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Today a topic that most of you already might know how to do. How to create a poll in Community Server 2.0. But still, evey now and then the question pops up in the forums. So I thought I'll do a post on it.
Another reason for doing this post, was to examine if I could post screencasts here at weblogs.asp.net in anyway, and also play around with making screencasts in my newly bought SnagIt application (will probably blog about SnagIt in a upcoming post, since it a great tool for screenshots and much more).
I did manage to embed a video in my blogpost here at weblogs.aspnet. I included an OBJECT tag and and an EMBED tag in the HTML of the post, and it worked fine. But the skin I am using cut off the movie in half, probably since it has a fixed width for the posts.
So for the moment I'll have to create a separate HTML page for publishing screencasts.
Watch the Polls in CS screencast (Flash movie).
Watch the Polls in CS screencast (WMV directly in your Mediaplayer).
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