J-O's blog : ASP .NET 1.1

Correction of one of my old posts

J-O Eriksson's blog — Tue, 20 Feb 2007 08:37:00 GMT

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)

How to learn where your users click

J-O Eriksson's blog — Wed, 22 Nov 2006 08:02:00 GMT

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, you'd want to know if the features you add to you blog are used at all. If they're not, it might mean that either they fill no meaning to your readers, or they can't find it. Of course there are a 3rd alternative that is very easy to miss. Today many...(read more)

The Secrets of CSModules

J-O Eriksson's blog — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:43:53 GMT

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, and maybe start using CSModules and the benefits of them right away. Any developer that has been involved the slightest bit in developing upon Community Server has most probably been in contact with the...(read more)

Videos on the CS Home Page

J-O Eriksson's blog — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 06:07:00 GMT

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 getting a bit too soapy (yes, I love really bad jokes, that almost noone understands) . Of course, what I've written in my two last articles, applies to other video players to embed that just Soapbox. So will this article. I made a little...(read more)

Go directly to site admin and skip the dashboard

J-O Eriksson's blog — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 14:13:29 GMT

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 right away to go to the Site Administration. Dashboard Site Administration Can I change this behavior? Of course you can, it's Community Server ! All you have to do is open up your SiteUrls.config and find the following section: <!-- // ControlPanel...(read more)

Changing order of your forums

J-O Eriksson's blog — Mon, 04 Sep 2006 18:18:00 GMT

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 arrow to move the forums within the Admin interface. But sometimes that didn't work good since one forum could have a Sort order value of 9999 and another could have 1. That would take a few clicks to get anything to happen. Today it's much easier...(read more)

Tranquilize your blog and inbox

J-O Eriksson's blog — Fri, 01 Sep 2006 16:20:00 GMT

Many of us in the Community Server Land have been talking about blog spam comments, spam rules etc the last weeks. One thing left out, at least from my own blog, is an issue that comes with these spam huntings, and that I got asked in the comments of my last post, is the fact that even if you manage to stop much of the spam, you still could get a lot e-mail notifications about those possible spam comments. This could in worst cases be as irritating as the spam itself. Now your mailbox fills up instead...(read more)

Deleting Auto-Deleted Spam comments

J-O Eriksson's blog — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 07:09:00 GMT

The last week, many of us have seen a large increase of spam comments sent to our Community Server blogs. That has given us the opportunity to learn how CS Spam rules work, and to see what a great job they do if configured correctly. And you might also have heard about the Akisment module in the Alabaster package that further adds to the CS Spam rules capability. So if you're running CS 2.1 on your blog, you can give those spammer a hard time. Personally I don't understand the purpose of...(read more)

Add/Remove buttons from the Paperclip Theme

J-O Eriksson's blog — Wed, 23 Aug 2006 12:02:00 GMT

If you run your blog at the root as I do, you might want to get better use of the toolbar of the blog. In my case I use a modified version of the Paperclip theme. As you can see in the picture above, I have modified the toolbar by adding 2 buttons (Media and Downloads). Since I use feedburner as RSS feed, I really could also remove the Atom 1.0 button together with the RSS 2.0 button and add one Subscribe button or similar. To add or remove buttons from this toolbar, open up the LayoutTemplate.acsx...(read more)

My blog has been Qgyenified

J-O Eriksson's blog — Mon, 21 Aug 2006 11:09:00 GMT

As Thomas Freudenberg said yesterday there are a lot of add-ons for Community Server. And many of them are already working on CS 2.1. I just realized I am running 3 of Ken Robertson's modules on my own blog, and I think they are really useful. Qgyen.Lightbox Enabled you to insert clickable thumbnail or miniature pictures in your blog, that pops up similar to a modal dialog, and shows the original or larger size version of the picture. It has a Flickr integration that enables you to use a Flickr...(read more)

Screencast: CS Reports in Excel 2007

J-O Eriksson's blog — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 07:38:00 GMT

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. Although I believe Telligent has done some work to improve the reports in CS, there are still areas that could be improved. I am mainly referring to the Excpetions report. But that's not really a big problem, if for example you have...(read more)

CS2: Modifying José Lemas modifications of videos.aspx

J-O Eriksson's blog — Sun, 16 Jul 2006 22:24:00 GMT

In June I talked about having a videogallery in Community Server . I referenced an article by José Lema where he talks about the videos.aspx and how to modify that file to get a more Google-like videgallery. Today I implemented a videolibrary on my Community Server Sweden site . But since the...( read more )...(read more)