J-O's blog

Brand new CSModule pack for CS 2007 - Cinnabar

2007-05-14T20:24:00Z

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 a new CSModule made by Gary McPherson and Keyvan Nayyeri called LinkManager. For more details, hop over to http://csmvps.com/blogs/news/archive/2007/05/13/community-server-mvps-cinnabar-csmodule-package...(read more)

Showcase: Smartson goes Community Server

2007-05-05T07:37:00Z

So, again I managed to keep quite for almost 2 months. Sometimes the energy for writing is just not there. No writing doesn't mean that nothing has happened though. The content of this article was meant to be published on the 18th of April. So here I'll quote myself on an article that never was published! How about that? Last Tuesday ( read 10 of April) , a brand new Swedish Community Server site came to life. The site is a place where both newbies and experts can discuss, read, and write...(read more)

How to add new users to different roles on the fly

2007-03-13T01:53:00Z

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 in the CSOrg Forums . I thought it would be an interesting case to do some sample code for a CSModule that did this by reading an argument from the query string. You might think that this could be done...(read more)

Using Localizable E-mail Templates

2007-03-07T08:39:00Z

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 for example when a new user registers and an e-mail with login information is sent to that user. In this article I want to show you how you can hook yourself into and use this system in your own Community...(read more)

UK MVP Meet-up pictures

2007-03-06T12:13:58Z

It's been almost exactly one week now, since I've met up with some of the UK Community Server MVP guys in London. I promised there'll be some pictures from it, and here goes. Click on picture to see it in original size This is the mandatory group picture of all of us that was there. Rob Nash , me, Rich Mercer , Nick Brown , and Gary McPherson . Rob is almost falling out of the picture. I think the waitress that we asked to take the picture was a bit nervous. I mean, standing there in front of all...(read more)

At the end of CS MVP Beer night

2007-02-27T23:21:00Z

Rich and Nick waiting for the tube, pulling up a laptop to put the final rows on a new exiting CSModule. More pictures coming later on. Me, I am on the tube to Hammersmith, blogging on my PDA. Read More......(read more)

UK Community Server MVP Beer

2007-02-26T21:54:00Z

So this week I will be in London attending a course in developing on SharePoint 2007. In fact I am in London right now, came here last night. I probably (but you'll never know) won't have the time to write any CS article this week due to this. But it won't be a CS-less week for me. I am meeting up with a couple of CS MVP's that lives in UK for a bite and a drink. Right now it looks like it's going to be Gary McPherson , Nick (Aero Man) Brown , Rich Mercer and me. It'll be fun to meet in real life...(read more)

Correction of one of my old posts

2007-02-20T08:37:00Z

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 by, new articles was written, other areas of Community Server was examined, and the solution was forgotten. Until one day when J-O needed to use this solution on one of his sites. He discovered that it no longer worked! It was broken, kaputt! After much...(read more)

CS 2007 New Feature: File Storage in blogs

2007-02-19T08:04:00Z

One of the new features in Community Server 2007 is being able to store files on a per blog and/or a per site basis. This article gives you a walk through of how it is currently implemented in CS 2007 Beta 1. I assume most of you have read about the new file storage capabilities (code name Zion) before, and many of you have probably also already tried it out. But for those that yet haven't had the time to take a look at this feature, I thought I'd give an walk through together with some screen shots...(read more)

The forgotten notifications (a new CSModule)

2007-02-12T07:47:00Z

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 months old. On one of my sites someone complained that his post didn't show up after posting. Going to forums moderation, of course there it was. During the autumn of 2006 I therefore started to build...(read more)

SoapBox CSModule - the source code online

2007-02-09T07:19:00Z

I happened to browse to CodePlex today. Haven't been there for ages. They have updated their interface in many areas. One cool thing that caught my interest was that I now can browse the source code of a project without having to download and load it in Visual Studio. Great! For example, here's a look at the source code of my SoapBox CSModule . Isn't it beautiful? Could we get that with color coding? Another good thing is that you now can create projects automatically. But you need to publish the...(read more)

I'll be back!

2007-02-06T19:29:00Z

It's been about 2 months now since I wrote any posts here. There are a number of reasons why I stopped writing.....for a while. I guess the main reason was, that I just had too much to do at work, combined with things I had to do outside of work. When Christmas vacation came I was just out of energy, and had to just do nothing for a while. There have been few things happening in the Community Server world the last 2 months. I am not sure I have managed to follow them all. I know Dave Burke was moved...(read more)

Ny svensk spelcommunity byggd på CS

2007-01-08T10:46:00Z

Strax före julafton år 2006, kördes en spelcommunity igång som är byggd på Community Server. Jag har fått uppfattningen att communityn har funnits förut men nu migrerats över till CS 2.1.

Sajten är ganska kraftigt skinnad och förändrad i utseende jmfrt med grund utseendet på CS. Hoppa över och ta en titt på http://superplay.se.

Set your Reader Posts to expire automatically

2006-12-11T07:47:00Z

If you're using the Reader application in Community Server , did you know that the posts never expire and will over time add to the size of your database? Last Friday I wrote an article about how you can create a CSJob that lets you run a SQL Stored Procedure on your CS Database on a scheduled basis. After that, it has been rather quiet in my blog for a little over a week. It has been one of those weeks again, which seems to come every now and then, where I almost had no time to even breath. [:-...(read more)

Do you have problems with Community Server Database size?

2006-11-29T19:48:54Z

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 to delete certain posts in the CS Database at certain intervals (although the question from the beginning is more like if mirrored blog posts does expire or if they have to be deleted manually)....(read more)