J-O's blog : Community Server

Ny svensk spelcommunity byggd på CS

Jan-Olov Eriksson — Mon, 08 Jan 2007 10:46:00 GMT

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.

A less painful way to upgrade to a Service Pack

J-O Eriksson's blog — Mon, 27 Nov 2006 07:22:00 GMT

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 get security fixes, bug fixes, and more into an existing version of a product. Sometimes it can also contain fixes for better performance etc. And when it comes to web applications that are configurable in so many ways, it's not always an easy task....(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)

Visual Studio Template for CSModules

J-O Eriksson's blog — Sat, 21 Oct 2006 18:58:48 GMT

I created a Visual Studio 2005 template for my own use when creating CSModules. The template contains the base line code that you need for creating a basic CSModule, and some basic instruction on what you need to get going. In case someone else would find it useful, I have uploaded it to my downloads area, so you can download it here ....(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)

Setting up the SDK in VS 2005

J-O Eriksson's blog — Wed, 13 Sep 2006 08:27:57 GMT

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 2.1 SDK together with VS 2005 to create your own developer environment and be ready to start developing different add-ons for CS. Dave's Stokes also steps us through developing a CS Add-on for monitoring...(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)

Nya spamregler till CS finns för nedladdning

Jan-Olov Eriksson — Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:25:00 GMT

Telligent har precis släppt 6 st nya spam regler för CS 2.1.

Anonymous User Blog Spam Rule - spampoäng ges baserat på medlemsstatus för den som kommenterar (Anonymous, Registered, Administrator/Owner)

Comment Length Blog Spam Rule - spampoäng läggs till om kommentartexten är kortare än den specificerade minimilängden.

Email Blog Spam Rule - spampoäng om kommentaren bara består av en e-postadress.

Flood from IP Blog Spam Rule - ger spampoäng vid "flooding" (för att specificera IP adresser att ignorera, skapa en "allowableips.config" fil i din webs rotkatalog med en IP-adress per rad)

Recent Duplicate Blog Spam Rule - spampoäng om kommentaren är en dublett av en tidigare post (kollar hela bloggen, inte bara i en post)

Regex Blog Spam Rule - spampoäng ges baserad på matching med angivna regular expressions (en per rad).

Spamreglerna är endast en DLL som du stoppar i CS webbens BIN-katalog, sen dyker reglerna upp i admin-gränssnittet.

Ladda hem spamreglerna!

Det finns även en annan spamregel som inte kommer från Telligent. Den integrerar med Akismet. Ladda hem den också!

The NewUserDefault CSModule of the Alabaster package

J-O Eriksson's blog — Mon, 28 Aug 2006 17:03:00 GMT

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 in today's post. The thing that got me thinking about developing this CSModule, was that CS lacked the possibility to enable notification for newly registered users. When a new user registered...(read more)

What? No screencast today?

J-O Eriksson's blog — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 14:28:00 GMT

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 fear not, there will be more of them. I am planning to spend a bit more work on each one of them, and release just 1 or 2 per month. One of the things that inspired me to try to raise the level of my screencast's was seeing Conrad Agramont's...(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)

Community Server is now fully translateable to other languages

J-O Eriksson's blog — Sun, 13 Aug 2006 23:36:00 GMT

Some of you that has been with Community Server for a while now, might remember that I previously coordinated the translations of CS. I think we at most were about 10 people with 10 different languages. You might also have seen that I've witting about translating CS earlier. With the release of CS 2.1, I felt it was time to talk a bit about translations of CS again. Why? Well, one of the big things is that CS is now (with the release of 2.1), for the first time in history I believe, 99,99 % translateable...(read more)

Screencast: Easier navigation - Browse by Tags

J-O Eriksson's blog — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:07:00 GMT

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 way to find what we want in a CS site. We've got menus and links, search, and now tags. Navigating or even using a tag system isn't always just straight forward IMO. On a site with many users, there's a chance that the tag collection gets...(read more)

Separating moderation on a forum level

J-O Eriksson's blog — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 14:48:00 GMT

Did you ever want to have different moderators for different forums in Community Server ? It is possible, but not very straight forward as checking a check-box.....yet anyway. During the last couple of days, I followed part of a thread at CS.org, where Dave Burke tried to help out in a question like the one above. He also wrote an article on how to do this , which I recommend reading if you have needs to separate moderation of forums. Good stuff! Maybe this should be posted as a kind of whitepaper...(read more)