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Blog Post: Extensibility points for building an application on top of the Telligent Evolution Platform.

Alex — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:18:00 GMT

Today I was responding to a customer query which involved me giving a listing of some of the more useful extensibility points that are most likely be used when building a custom application within the Telligent Evolution Platform. I’m reproducing this here as I feel it may be useful to others.

N.B. this is not an exhaustive list. For full documentation of extensibility points in Telligent Evolution 6.0, see refer to the online documentation.

Widgets

IScriptedContentFragmentExtension – use this to expose custom data to Studio Widgets
IScriptedContentFragmentFactoryDefaultProvider – Load your applications custom widgets as factory defaults so the user can revert back. Can also be used as one approach for storing widgets in Source Control.

(These can be found at Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.UI.Version1 in Telligent.Evolution.ScriptedContentFragments.dll)

Navigation

ISiteCustomNavigationPlugin – allow easy addition of a link to your application to site wide navigation
IGroupCustomNavigationPlugin - to allow easy adding of a link to your custom application
IGroupDefaultCustomNavigationPlugin – add a link to your application to the default group navigation.
IGroupNewPostLinkPlugin – add links to your application in the New Post drop down in a group.

(These can be found at Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.UI.Version1 in Telligent.Evolution.Components.dll)

Plugins

IPlugin – allow initialisation logic so that users can enable/disable a feature
IConfigurablePlugin – capture configurations settings related to your app
IPluginGroup – Group multiple plugins into a single plugin that can either be all enabled, or all disabled.

(These can be found at Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Version1 in Telligent.Evolution.Components.dll)

Core Objects

These can be accessed from the Public API Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Api.Version1.PublicAPI (in Telligent.Evolution.Api.dll)
- Users
- Groups
- Etc.

(These can be found at Telligent.Evolution.Api.Version1.PublicApi in Telligent.Evolution.Components.dll)

Other Services

Search - Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Api.Version1.PublicApi.Search
File Storage - Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Storage.Version1.CentralizedFileStorage.
Caching – Telligent.Evolution.Extensibility.Caching.Version.CacheService

(These can be fund in Telligent.Evolution.Api.dll)

Wiki: AlexCrome.Evolution Documentation

Anonymous — Mon, 18 Jul 2011 09:28:00 GMT

Wiki: Alex Crome.CS 2008.5 Documentation

Anonymous — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 22:22:00 GMT

This wiki contains documentation for my AlexCrome.CS 2008.5 addons for Community Server.

Forum Post: Re: Addon: Classic Forum Layout question

clay202 — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 03:30:00 GMT

thanks Alex for your suggestion. I will give it a try next week. I will keep my eyes open for the TC 5.5 version of the widget.

Blog Post: Improving Documentation Part 1 – Inline Table of Contents

Alex — Mon, 08 Nov 2010 17:51:00 GMT

If you’ve been watching the documentation on http://telligent.com over the past 6 months or so, you’ll have noticed some big improvements to how easily you can read through our documentation. There are lots of improvements we have made, but three of the big ones I’d like to highlight are

Source Code Formatting
Inline Table of Contents
Custom styles

In this blog post, I’m going to concentrate solely on the Table of Contents, and in part 2, I’ll discuss the Custom Styles used, and how we’ve made it easier to use these styles in the text editor.

Inline Table of Contents

The Table of Contents addon is an extension we built for allowing easy navigation within a Wiki article (now available in the Telligent Marketplace). The Table of Contents is the Grey “In this Article” box on the pages. For example, if you look at the Installation document for Telligent Evolution, you’ll see the table of contents looking like:

The Table of Contents serves two main purposes

Provides an outline of the article
Allows readers to easily navigate the article by clicking on the link to the section they want to read.

It incredibly simple to use. Make sure you use H2,H3 and H4 tags when Simply add the text [toc] into the article where you want the Table of Contents to be, and then add the text [toc] into an article where you want the Table of Contents to be displayed to the reader. The addon can be used in wiki pages, blog posts, media uploads and even forum posts.

What are you waiting for, go get the Table of Contents from the Telligent Marketplace.

Blog Post: Measuring webpage load times

Alex — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 12:32:00 GMT

This is a quick powershell script I knocked up to take a crude measurement of how long it takes a webpage to load

$webConfigPath = "D:\Path\To\Web\Config\File\web.config";  $url = "http://localhost:88/"    $webClient = new-object System.Net.WebClient  $webConfig = [xml](gc $webConfigPath)    $iterations = 0;  while($iterations -lt 5)  {      " "      "Iteration $iterations"      #Touch web.config to clear out cach etc.      $webConfig.Save($webConfigPath)      # Request page twice to ensure cache is fully populated      $webClient.DownloadString($url) | out-null      $webClient.DownloadString($url) | out-null        $loads  = 0;      while ($loads -lt 20)      {          (measure-command { $webClient.DownloadString($url) }).TotalMilliseconds          $loads++      }      $iterations++  }

Blog Post: Using Syntax Highlighter with Telligent Evolution

Alex — Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:55:00 GMT

Syntax Highlighter is a code syntax highlighter written in Javascript. The following blog post describes how you can use Syntax Highlighter with your Telligent Evolution platform Community, taking you first through setting up the Syntax Highlighter scripts and then installing a plugin for the text editor to make using Syntax Highlighter easier.

Install The Syntax Highlighter Scripts
Install the SyntaxHl TinyMCE plugin
Using the Syntax HL Plugin
Troubleshooting

Install The Syntax Highlighter Scripts

Note, the following instructions assume that you are running your Telligent Evolution platform community at the root of your domain. If you are not, you will need to modify the paths for scripts and stylesheets to match the subdirectory your community is installed to.

Download the Syntax Highlighter 3.0 files from http://alexgorbatchev.com/SyntaxHighlighter/download/
Extract the contents of that download to a folder in your Telligent Evolution platform community (e.g. ~/SyntaxHighlighter/)

Go to your community, login as an administrator and go to Control Panel > System Administration > Site Administration > Site Configuration > Setup > General Site Settings

In the “Raw Header” field, add the stylesheets required by Syntax Highlighter.

<link href="/SyntaxHighlighter/styles/shCore.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />  <link href="/SyntaxHighlighter/styles/shThemeDefault.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

In the Google Analytics field, add the javascript required by the plugin

<script src="/SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shCore.js" type="text/javascript"></script>  <script src="/SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shAutoloader.js" type="text/javascript"></script>    <script type="text/javascript">  SyntaxHighlighter.autoloader(     'applescript            /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushAppleScript.js'    ,'actionscript3 as3      /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushAS3.js'    ,'bash shell             /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushBash.js'    ,'coldfusion cf          /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushColdFusion.js'    ,'cpp c                  /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushCpp.js'    ,'c# c-sharp csharp      /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushCSharp.js'    ,'css                    /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushCss.js'    ,'delphi pascal          /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushDelphi.js'    ,'diff patch pas         /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushDiff.js'    ,'erl erlang             /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushErlang.js'    ,'groovy                 /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushGroovy.js'    ,'java                   /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushJava.js'    ,'jfx javafx             /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushJavaFX.js'    ,'js jscript javascript  /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushJScript.js'    ,'perl pl                /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushPerl.js'    ,'php                    /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushPhp.js'    ,'text plain             /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushPlain.js'    ,'py python              /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushPython.js'    ,'ruby rails ror rb      /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushRuby.js'    ,'sass scss              /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushSass.js'    ,'scala                  /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushScala.js'    ,'sql                    /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushSql.js'    ,'vb vbnet               /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushVb.js'    ,'xml xhtml xslt html    /SyntaxHighlighter/scripts/shBrushXml.js'  );  SyntaxHighlighter.config.stripBrs = true;  SyntaxHighlighter.all();  </script>

Save the page

At this stage, you should now be able to use syntax highlighter by manually editing the HTML of your posts to include the required syntax for Syntax Highlighter to do it’s work (e.g. <pre class="brush: xml">Here is some code</pre> ), however there is an extension for the Text Editor used by Telligent Evolution that makes it easier to insert code without having to manually edit the HTML.

Install the SyntaxHl TinyMCE plugin

There is a SyntaxHl plugin for TinyMCE which makes it easier to insert code samples into content through the TinyMCE text editor. To install this plugin:

Download the SyntaxHL plugin from http://github.com/RichGuk/syntaxhl
Copy the contents of the download to ~/tiny_mce/plugins/syntaxhl/

Add the following entries to your communityserver_override.config file to register the SyntaxHL plugin

<!--   TinyMCE extensions for Syntax Highlighter   - requires SyntaxHl extension from http://github.com/RichGuk/syntaxhl  -->  <!-- Add Pre to the format selection list -->  <Override xpath="/CommunityServer/Core/editors/editor[@name='Enhanced']/editorOption[@name='theme_advanced_blockformats']" mode="change"      name="value"      value="'h2,h3,h4,p,pre,div'"      />  <!-- Register the SyntaxHL Plugin -->  <Override xpath="/CommunityServer/Core/editors/editor[@name='Enhanced']/editorOption[@name='plugins']" mode="change"      name="value"      value="'advhr,advimage,advlink,contextmenu,emotions,fullscreen,iespell,insertmedia,insertvideo,paste,safari,smilies,spellchecker,table,syntaxhl'"      />  <!-- Add the SyntaxhHL button -->  <Override xpath="/CommunityServer/Core/editors/editor[@name='Enhanced']" mode="add">   <editorOption name="theme_advanced_buttons2_add" value="'syntaxhl'" />  </Override>

Using the Syntax HL Plugin

Now when you use the text editor, you should see a syntax highlighter button on the right of the bottom row.

Upon clicking this button, you will get a window which allows you to paste in your code sample, specify the language the code is written in, as well as a few more configuration options supported by Syntax Highlighter.

When you save your content, you should see the code highlighted in colour when you view it. For example, submitting the code in a forum post gives

Troubleshooting

If you have problems, then you most likely haven’t specified the correct path to the syntax Highlighter scripts in the “Install the SyntaxHl TinyMCE plugin” section. Use a tool such as Fiddler to view the HTTP Traffic when you view a page containing some code blocks configured for Syntax Highlighter – check your browser is successfully requesting the javascript and stylesheet files. You should also check your browsers for any javascript errors.

Wiki Page: Referral Points

Alex — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 22:09:00 GMT

The Telligent Evolution Platform allows your existing members to invite new members to your community through the Invite User widget. This addon provides an incentive for them to use this as it gives the user points for every new user they bring to the community.

You can optionally make the user who joins and the user who sent the invitation friends.

Installation Instructions

[[Installation Instructions|Install the core AlexCrome.Evoution package]]
Execute the ReferalsSQL.sql script against your database.

Ensure your the communityserver_override.config file contains the following

<!--         Referral Points Addon   -->   <!-- Change default Points Provider-->   <Override xpath="/CommunityServer/Core/providers" mode="add" where="end">     <add name="PointsProvider" type="AlexCrome.Evolution.Points.ACPointsProvider, AlexCrome.Evolution" connectionstringname="SiteSqlServer" databaseownerstringname="SiteSqlServerOwner" />   </Override>  <!-- Add Referral Point Module-->   <Override xpath="/CommunityServer/CSModules" mode="add">     <add name="ReferralPointsModule" type="AlexCrome.Evolution.Points.ReferralPointsModule, AlexCrome.Evolution" />  </Override>

Add the Invite User widget to a page where your users can see it, and encourage them to invite new members to your community. Alternatively you may provide a link to ~/user/inviteuser.aspx which already contains an Invite User widget.

Configuration

Referral Points is a [[Configurable Addons|Configurable Addon]]. To configure it, you should use the [[Manage Addon Configurations|Manage Addon Configurations widget]]. When configuring the widget, there are two configuration option to configure

Points – Determines the number of points a member receives when a user they invite successfully joins the community
Make Friends – If checked, makes the inviter and invitee friends with each other when the invitee successfully joins the community.

Forum Post: Re: Error using the Quick reply form!

mbtshoes — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 13:02:00 GMT

thanks for sharing.

Blog Post: Styling Widgets

Alex — Thu, 19 Aug 2010 14:13:00 GMT

In this blog post, I’m going to discuss various ways in which you can restyles widgets in the Telligent Evolution platform. This article assumes you have basic knowledge of CSS, and and have had some experience with either the fiji theme from Telligent Community, or the evolution2 theme from Telligent Enterprise. All the examples in this blog post will use Telligent Enterprise’s evolution2 theme, but the same concepts apply for Telligent Community’s fiji theme as well as any custom themes you may create.

Structure of a Widget
Targeting a particular type of widget
Targeting particular styles of widgets
Targeting widgets in a particular region
Targeting an individual widget
Targeting Widgets on a particular Page
Targeting Widgets on a particular page layout
Putting it all together
Conclusion

Structure of a Widget

Widgets in the Telligent Evolution platform typically have three Css Classes

content-fragment
a class name indicating the type of widget ( e.g. blog-post-list) . This is generated from the class name used by the widget)
a class name indicating the layout of the widget (e.g. full-border)

Within this widget, there are three main areas

Header (<div class="content-fragment-header" />)
Content (<div class="content-fragment-header" />)
Footer (<div class="content-fragment-header" />)

To demonstrate these three regions, add the following CSS to the CSS Overrides section of your theme’s configuration.

.content-fragment  {    border: 10px solid #9f9;  }  .content-fragment .content-fragment-header {     background-image: none  !important;     background-color: #666  !important;     color: #fff  !important;     border: none !important;  }    .content-fragment .content-fragment-content {     background-color: #ccf;     border: none !important;  }    .content-fragment .content-fragment-footer {     height: 5px;     background-color: #f00;  }

This will transform a widget in the Telligent Enterprise Theme as follows.

Targeting a particular type of widget

Above, i mentioned that widgets included a CSS class indicating the type of the widget. We can use this to make our CSS Selectors more specific so that they only target a particular type of widget. Let’s say we want to target the Generic Content widget, we can use a tool such as Firebug for Firefox, or the IE Developer Tools to inspect a Generic Content widget. We can see that the Generic Content widget has a "html-content” css class which is the class used to indicate a Generic Content Widget.

So to style just Generic Content widgets, instead of targeting just elements with the content-fragment class, we want to target all elements with the content-fragment AND html-content class. For example, if we wanted to make the content of all generic content widgets larger and bold, we could use the following CSS:

.content-fragment.html-content .content-fragment-content  {    font-size: 1.2em;    font-weight: bold;    color: orange;  }

Targeting particular styles of widgets

This is very similar to targeting widgets of a particular type. If you use a tool such as Firebug to inspect the HTML of a widget, you’ll see a CSS Class indicating the style of the widget. For example, say we want to target all widgets using the No Wrapper with Spacing or No Wrapper with No Spacing options We can use the following CSS.

.content-fragment.no-wrapper  ,.content-fragment.no-wrapper-with-spacing  {    background-color: #9f9;  }

Gives us

Targeting widgets in a particular region

If you have a look around the HTML structure using Firebug, you’ll see that widgets are placed within layout regions. You can use these layout regions to target only widgets in a particular areas of the page. Say for example we want change the colour of headers in the left and right sidebars, we can use the following CSS

.layout-region.left-sidebar .content-fragment .content-fragment-header  ,.layout-region.right-sidebar .content-fragment .content-fragment-header  {    background-image: none;    background-color: #ccc  }

Targeting an individual widget

Be careful using this technique as the ID of a widget can sometimes change when a page is edited – see Ben Tiedt’s comment below.

If you use Firebug to inspect the markup of a widget, you’ll see that each widget has a unique id fragment-XXXX (where XXXX is an integer). You can use this to target one particular widget. For example, say we want to give the bottom right Generic Content (with an id of fragment-2146) a different coloured header to make it stand out, you could use the followign CSS

#fragment-2146 .content-fragment-header  {  background-image: none;  background-color: #f00;  color: #fff;  }

Targeting Widgets on a particular Page

If you inspect the marrkup of the main page using firebug, you’ll see that all widgets are wrapped in a div with the css class “content-fragment-page”, and an additonall css class based on the page you’re on. You can use this to target just widgets on a particular page. For example to use the Impact font for just widgets on the homepage, use the following css

.content-fragment-page.common-home .content-fragment .content-fragment-content  {  font-family: impact;  }

Targeting Widgets on a particular page layout

Looking a bit deeper into the HTML markup, you’ll see that the main widget area is wrapped in a div with the css class layout-content, and an additional css class based upon the page layout in use. Again, we can use this to target just widgets. For example, say we want to change the border of al widgets on pages using a header, main content and left sidebar

.layout-content.content-left-sidebar-right .content-fragment  {     border: dotted 5px;  }

Putting it all together

You can combine all these ideas together for some very detailed styling. Let’s say you want to restyle all generic content widgets using the no wrapper layout in the left sidebar of the homepage, when it’s using a header & three column layout. (Quite why you’d want to do something this specific I don’t know, but it’s more a demonstration that it can be done, as opposed to something that you would want to do).

.content-fragment-page.common-home .layout-content.header-top-sidebar-left-content-center-sidebar-right .layout-region.left-sidebar .content-fragment.html-content.no-wrapper .content-fragment-content   {    background-image: none;    background-color: #cfc  }

Conclusion

I hope this post gives you some ideas of different ways in which you can customise widgets in themes. If you have a look around my website, you’ll see I have some custom CSs that specifically restyles any widgets usingthe No Wrapper styles. I have also updated all sidebar widgets to use the No Wrapper style to give my site a unique look. I have also updated the header of other widgets to have a gradient background, and removed the rounded corners from the bottom of widgets.

File: Permission Viewer Tool

Alex — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 09:14:00 GMT

The permission viewer application is a diagnostic tool for viewing permissions in a Telligent Evolution platform community. It allows you to view permissions in a tabular form which can make diagnosing permission based issues easier.

Blog Post: Permission Viewer Tool

Alex — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 13:44:00 GMT

The application may be downloaded from github, where the source code is also hosted.

Set up your Community

This application uses the REST API to communicate with the Telligent Evolution platform. You must first enable the REST API and then generate an API Key for your user account within your Telligent community.

Connecting with the Application

In the connection area at the Enter the URL to your Telligent community and hit Connect
The Application will try and connect to your website. After a moment a new row will pop up asking for your Username and API Key. Depending on how your community is configured, you may also be required to enter a password. Enter the requires details and then hit Login

Understanding the Permission Report

The permission report is displayed as a grid with roles listed along the top of the table, and a list of permissions down the left hand side. If a role is granted a permission, the cell corresponding to the permission and role will have a green colour with an X in.

Roles are always listed in the following order: Everyone, Registered Users,Members, Managers, Owners, Moderators, Administrators, OTHER ROLES

If you do not see a role listed in the table, that means the role has no permissions for that application

Viewing Permissions for an Individual Application

In order to view permissions for a particular application, you first need to select an application. After doing this, permissions will be displayed in a table in the Permission Display area on the right. There are two ways of selecting an application:

Browsing for an Application

Select the Browse tab in the Application Selector area
Browse through the tree to find the application you want to view permissions for
Click on the Application to view it’s permissions

Searching for an Application

Click on the search tab in the Application Selector area
In the search box, type in your search query then hit Search to search for applications
Click on the Application you want to view permissions for

Viewing Site Wide Permissions

When you first connect to your community, you will be shown Site Wide permissions. If you have started viewing permissions for an individual application, you can return to this page by hitting the Show Site Permissions button in the bottom right

Exporting Permission Reports

You can export the permission grid for an application to an HTML report. This HTML report will include the permissions for the currently selected application, and groups above it.

Show the permissions you wish to export
Click on the “Export Permission Report” button in the bottom right
In the Save As dialogue, choose a location to save the report and press Save.

Group: Telligent Evolution Platform

Anonymous — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:35:00 GMT

Wiki Page: AlexCrome.Evolution 5.0 Documentation

Alex — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 17:39:00 GMT

AlexCrome.Evolution is a set of addons for the Telligent Evolution Platform (Telligent Community and Telligent Enterprise) written by Alex Crome.

The following is a list of all items included in the AlexCrome.Evolution 5.0 addon package for the Telligent Evolution Platform (Teligent Community 5 and Telligent Enterprise 2)

[[Configurable Addons]]

[[Table Of Contents]] - Automatically builds a Table of Contents from any Heading tags (h1-h6) in use in a page or post when the content contains [toc] – see an example above.
[[Referral Points]] – Gives members points if they successfully invite new members to join the Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[Notify On User Create]] (also a [[CSModules|CSModule]]) – Sends an email to configured email addresses whenever a new user joins a Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[Search Engine Ping]] (also a [[CSModules|CSModule]]) – Pings search engines to let them know when new content is added to a Telligent Evolution Platform community.

[[Widgets]]

[[Classic Forum Display]] – Displays a list of forums in the specified group and it’s sub grouped, and shows the forums grouped by the group they’re contained in.
[[Manage Addon Configurations]] – Allows an Administrator (or any user with the Site – Manage Settigns permission) to manage [[Configurable Addons]].

[[CSModules]]

[[New Group Random Avatar]] – Selects a random user Selectable Avatar for new users when they register on a Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[New User Random Avatar]] – Selects a random Group Selectable Avatar to be the default avatar for new groups.
[[Mark Threads Read On User Create]] – Marks all existing forum threads as read when a new member joins a Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[Notify On User Create]] (also a [[Configurable Addons|Configurable Addon]]) – Sends an email to configured email addresses whenever a new user joins a Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[Search Engine Ping]] (also a [[Configurable Addons|Configurable Addon]]) – Pings search engines to let them know when new content is added to a Telligent Evolution Platform community.

[[Controls]]

[[Extended Attributes SubForm]] - A subform that allows you to easily store additional data in Extended Attributes when creating / saving data that supports Extended Attributes.
[[Resource Controls]] - Utility controls to reference resources in the AlexCrome.Evolution.Resources.xml resource file.

Deprecated Addons

The following addons are still included in the addon package, but are no longer maintained and will be removed in a future release. For further details on why the addon was deprecated, and for workarounds, view the documentation on the addons.

[[Default Mirrored Blog Post Author]] – Sets the author of mirroed blog posts to be the first owner of a blog, instead of the anonymous user.

Wiki Page: Installation Instructions

Alex — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:08:00 GMT

For an overview of the addons available in the AlexCrome.Evolution addon package for the Telligent Evolution Platform, [[DefaultWikiPage|click here]].

Install all Addons at Once

This is the quickest method, and installs all the addons at once. If there is only one or two addons you don’t want to use, it may be quicker and easier to install all the addons, and then uninstall the ones you don’t want to use.

Download the AlexCrome.Evolution package.
Run the AlexCrome.Evolution.SQL.sql script against your database (this is required even if you installed the CS2008.5 version as there have been some changes to the points stored procedures)
Copy the contents of the \web\ folder into the web folder of your Telligent Evolution Platform (Telligent Community or Telligent Enterprise) website.
- If you already have a communityserver_override.config file, add the overrides in the provided file to the bottom of your own.
- If you are using a theme other than the Fiji theme, you will need to copy the \themes\fiji\CustomCss\ and \themes\fiji\CustomImages\ folders into your theme. You may also need to adjust the styles and images to better suit your theme.
- If you are using any languages other than English you will need to copy the contents of \Languages\en-us\ into each other language you’re using, and translate the files into the appropriate language.
Copy the contents of TableOfContents.css into the CSS Overrides on the Theme Configuration page in the Control Panel. (Again you may wish to customise these styles to better suit your site’s look and feel)
You have now successfully installed the addon package. Some addons however require additional setup
- [[Manage Addon Configurations|Configure Configurable Addons]]
- [[Classic Forum Display|Use the Classic Forum Display widget]]

Install Addons Individually

Use this method if you only want to install a small number of addons, or if you want to go through the addons very carefully so you know what you’re installing.

Download the AlexCrome.Evolution package from TBD
Copy the following files from the \web\ folder into the equilivent place in the web folder of your Telligent Evolution Platform website
- \bin\AlexCrome.Evolution.dll
- \Languages\en-US\AlexCrome.Evolution.Resources.xml
  - If you are using a language other than English, you will need to copy this file into the appropriate location for each language you use, and translate the resources within the file.
- \Utility\ContentFragments\ACCustom\
For each addon you wish to install, browse to the addon’s page in the documentation and follow the Installation Instructions.

Wiki Page: Default Mirrored Blog Post Author

Alex — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 08:09:00 GMT

This module is no longer being updated as this functionality was added to Telligent Community 5 SP1 / Telligent Enterprise 2 SP1. View documentation

The DefaultMirroredBlogPostAuthor [[CSModules|CSModule]] takes new blog posts created from mirrored RSS feeds and sets the author of the post as one of the blog owners. The post author is set as the first valid user in the blog owner's list.

Installation

[[Installation Instructions|Install the core AlexCrome.Evoution package]]
Ensure your the communityserver_override.config file contains the following
[code language="xml"]
<Override xpath="/CommunityServer/CSModules" mode="add">
<add name="DefaultMirroredBlogPostAuthor"
type="AlexCrome.Evolution.Modules.DefaultMirroredBlogPostAuthor, AlexCrome.Evolution" />
</Override>
[/code]

Uninstallation

To uninstall the Default Mirrored Blog Post Author addon, simply remove the above xml from your communityserver_override.config file.

Forum Post: Re: New active topics page - displays each thread twice

Erik P. Ernst - Dynamics User Group — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 15:49:00 GMT

Hi Alex,

I've attached it here (well not you don't allow to attach aspx files).

  

<%@ Page EnableViewState="false" Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" Inherits="CommunityServer.Discussions.Controls.CSForumThemePage" MasterPageFile="..\forums\forums.Master" %>
<%@ Register Assembly="AlexCrome.CS" Namespace="AlexCrome.CS.Controls" TagPrefix="ACControl" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="CommunityServer.Components" %>
<%@ Import Namespace="CommunityServer.Discussions.Components" %>
<script runat="server" type="text/C#" >

    protected override void OnLoad(EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!GroupByForum)
            FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.QueryImplementation = null;
    }

    protected override void OnInit(EventArgs e)
    {
        CSContext context = CSContext.Current;
        User user = context.User;

        // If the user has changed view, save the change to their profile as an Extended Attribute
        string currentSortOrder = context.QueryString["Sort"];
        if (!user.IsAnonymous && !String.IsNullOrEmpty(currentSortOrder) && currentSortOrder != user.GetExtendedAttribute("FilteredThreadListSort"))
        {
            user.SetExtendedAttribute("FilteredThreadListSort", context.QueryString["Sort"]);
            CommunityServer.Users.UpdateUser(user);
        }

        // If we're grouping by forum, show more results per page
        if (GroupByForum)
            FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.PageSize = 30;
        else
            FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.PageSize = 20;

        // Moved this from conditional actions to OnInit as it removes over complicated markup
        // and doesn't cause the repeater to be databound twice
        switch (context.RewrittenUrlName)
        {
            case "forums.post_Unanswered":
                FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.UnAnsweredOnly = true;
                break;
            case "forums.post_Active":
                FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.ActiveTopics = true;
                break;
            case "forums.post_NotRead":
                FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.UnReadOnly = true;
                break;
            case "forums.post_Videos":
                FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.PostMedia = PostMediaType.Video;
                break;
            case "forums.user_MyForums":
                FilteredThreadList.QueryOverrides.UserFilter = ThreadUsersFilter.ShowTopicsParticipatedIn;
                break;
        }
    }

    void FilteredThreadList_DataBinding(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        /* For some reason, chameleon repeaters get databound twice
        * which means if only posts form one forum or group are displayed
        * when the control is databound for the second time, the fist
        * item does not register as being of a new group / forum. */
        lastForumID = -1;
        lastGroupId = -1;
        previousPostID = -1;
        previousIsAlternatingTemplate = false;
    }

    int lastGroupId = -1;
    /// <summary>
    /// Compares the provided GroupID value with the GroupID of the previous post
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="forumID">The GroupId to compare to.</param>
    /// <returns>Returns true if the GroupID value has changed, otherwise false.</returns>
    public bool ShowGroupHeader(int groupID)
    {
        if (groupID != lastGroupId && GroupByForum)
        {
            lastGroupId = groupID;
            return true;
        }
        else return false;
    }

    int lastForumID = -1;
    /// <summary>
    /// Compares the provided ForumID value with the ForumID of the previous post
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="forumID">The ForumID value to compare to.</param>
    /// <returns>Returns true if the ForumID value has changed, otherwise false.</returns>
    public bool ShowForumHeader(int forumID)
    {
        if (forumID != lastForumID && GroupByForum)
        {
            //Update the lastForumID value
            lastForumID = forumID;
            //Reset Alternating Template value
            previousIsAlternatingTemplate = false;
            return true;
        }
        else
            return false;
    }

    int previousPostID;
    bool previousIsAlternatingTemplate = false;
    /// <summary>
    /// Determines whether the current item should be rendered as an
    /// alternating item template
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="postID">the ID of the current post</param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    bool IsAlternatingTemplate(int postID)
    {
        /* For group rendering, can't rely on item / alternating item template of
        * filtered thread list as otherwise individual forums may not always have
        * first row the same colour as each other which just looks odd
        */

        /* Have to compare against the ID of the previous post as the condition
        * is evaluated twice, which would leave as all rows rendering as a
        * normal item template */
        if (postID == previousPostID)
            return previousIsAlternatingTemplate;

        else
        {
            previousIsAlternatingTemplate = !previousIsAlternatingTemplate;
            return !previousIsAlternatingTemplate;
        }
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Are we grouping posts by forum they were posted to
    /// </summary
    bool GroupByForum
    {
        get
        {
            CSContext context = CSContext.Current;
            if (context.User.IsAnonymous)
                return context.QueryString["Sort"] == "SortOrder";
            else
                return CSContext.Current.User.GetExtendedAttribute("FilteredThreadListSort") == "SortOrder";
        }
    }

</script>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="bbcr" runat="server">
    <CSForum:BreadCrumb runat="server" Tag="Div" CssClass="CommonBreadCrumbArea">
        <LeaderTemplate><div class="Common"></LeaderTemplate>
        <TrailerTemplate></div></TrailerTemplate>
    </CSForum:BreadCrumb>
</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="tr" runat="server">
    <%-- Set the title based on the URL we're viewing --%>
    <CSControl:Title ResourceName="ViewUnansweredThreads_Title" IncludeSiteName="true" EnableRendering="true" Tag="H1" CssClass="CommonTitle" runat="server">
        <DisplayConditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Unanswered" /></DisplayConditions>
    </CSControl:Title>
    <CSControl:Title ResourceName="ViewActiveThreads_Title" IncludeSiteName="true" EnableRendering="true" Tag="H1" CssClass="CommonTitle" runat="server">
        <DisplayConditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Active" /></DisplayConditions>
    </CSControl:Title>
    <CSControl:Title ResourceName="ViewNotReadThreads_Title" IncludeSiteName="true" EnableRendering="true" Tag="H1" CssClass="CommonTitle" runat="server">
        <DisplayConditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_NotRead" /></DisplayConditions>
    </CSControl:Title>
    <CSControl:Title ResourceName="ViewVideos_Title" IncludeSiteName="true" EnableRendering="true" Tag="H1" CssClass="CommonTitle" runat="server">
        <DisplayConditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Videos" /></DisplayConditions>
    </CSControl:Title>
    <CSControl:Title ResourceName="Forums_YourDiscussions" IncludeSiteName="true" EnableRendering="true" Tag="H1" CssClass="CommonTitle" runat="server">
        <DisplayConditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.user_MyForums" /></DisplayConditions>
    </CSControl:Title>
</asp:Content>

<asp:Content ContentPlaceHolderID="bcr" runat="server">

    <%-- If the user is not logged in and we're looking at the 'not read' or 'my forums' page, redirect to the login page --%>
    <CSControl:ConditionalAction runat="server">
        <Conditions runat="server" Operator="And">
            <CSControl:UserPropertyValueComparison UseAccessingUser="true" ComparisonProperty="IsAnonymous" Operator="IsSetOrTrue" runat="server" />
            <CSControl:Conditions Operator="Or" runat="server">
                <CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_NotRead" />
                <CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.user_MyForums" />
            </CSControl:Conditions>
        </Conditions>
        <Actions>
            <CSControl:GoToSiteUrlAction runat="server" UrlName="login">
                <Parameter1Template><CSControl:ModifiedUrl runat="server" Encoding="URL" RenderRawUrl="true" /></Parameter1Template>
            </CSControl:GoToSiteUrlAction>
        </Actions>
    </CSControl:ConditionalAction>

    <%-- Set the appropriate options on the thread list control based on the URL we're viewing
    <CSControl:ConditionalAction runat="server">
        <Conditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Unanswered" /></Conditions>
        <Actions>
            <CSControl:SetQueryOverridePropertyAction runat="server" ListControlId="FilteredThreadList" QueryOverrideProperty="UnAnsweredOnly" QueryOverrideValue="true" />
            <CSControl:ClearAndDataBindRepeaterAction runat="server" RepeaterId="FilteredThreadList" />
        </Actions>
    </CSControl:ConditionalAction>
    <CSControl:ConditionalAction runat="server">
        <Conditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Active" /></Conditions>
        <Actions>
            <CSControl:SetQueryOverridePropertyAction runat="server" ListControlId="FilteredThreadList" QueryOverrideProperty="ActiveTopics" QueryOverrideValue="true" />
            <CSControl:ClearAndDataBindRepeaterAction runat="server" RepeaterId="FilteredThreadList" />
        </Actions>
    </CSControl:ConditionalAction>
    <CSControl:ConditionalAction runat="server">
        <Conditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_NotRead" /></Conditions>
        <Actions>
            <CSControl:SetQueryOverridePropertyAction runat="server" ListControlId="FilteredThreadList" QueryOverrideProperty="UnReadOnly" QueryOverrideValue="true" />
            <CSControl:ClearAndDataBindRepeaterAction runat="server" RepeaterId="FilteredThreadList" />
        </Actions>
    </CSControl:ConditionalAction>
    <CSControl:ConditionalAction runat="server">
        <Conditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Videos" /></Conditions>
        <Actions>
            <CSControl:SetQueryOverridePropertyAction runat="server" ListControlId="FilteredThreadList" QueryOverrideProperty="PostMedia" QueryOverrideValue="Video" />
            <CSControl:ClearAndDataBindRepeaterAction runat="server" RepeaterId="FilteredThreadList" />
        </Actions>
    </CSControl:ConditionalAction>
    <CSControl:ConditionalAction runat="server">
        <Conditions><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.user_MyForums" /></Conditions>
        <Actions>
            <CSControl:SetQueryOverridePropertyAction runat="server" ListControlId="FilteredThreadList" QueryOverrideProperty="UserFilter" QueryOverrideValue="ShowTopicsParticipatedIn" />
            <CSControl:ClearAndDataBindRepeaterAction runat="server" RepeaterId="FilteredThreadList" />
        </Actions>
    </CSControl:ConditionalAction> --%>

    <div class="CommonContentBox">
        <div class="CommonContentBoxHeaderForm">
            <CSForum:ThreadListFilterForm runat="server"
                Tag="Div"
                CssClass="CommonFormArea"
                ApplyChangesImmediately="true"
                DateFilterDropDownListId="DateFilter"
                ForumFilterDropDownListId="ForumFilter"
                ThreadListId="FilteredThreadList">
                <FormTemplate>
                    <div class="CommonFormFieldName">
                        Forum/Group:
                        <asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID="ForumFilter" />
                        <asp:DropDownList runat="server" ID="DateFilter" />
                    </div>
                </FormTemplate>
            </CSForum:ThreadListFilterForm>
            <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="UserSearchControl_SortBy" />:

            <CSControl:ConditionalContent runat="server">
                <ContentConditions runat="server" Operator="Not"><CSControl:CustomCondition CustomResult='<%# GroupByForum %>' runat="server" /></ContentConditions>
                <TrueContentTemplate><CSControl:ModifiedUrl Tag="B" Text="Date Posted" QueryStringModification="Sort=Date&PageIndex=1" runat="server" /></TrueContentTemplate>
                <FalseContentTemplate><CSControl:ModifiedUrl Text="Date Posted" QueryStringModification="Sort=Date&PageIndex=1" runat="server" /></FalseContentTemplate>
            </CSControl:ConditionalContent> |

            <CSControl:ConditionalContent runat="server">
                <ContentConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CustomCondition CustomResult='<%# GroupByForum %>' runat="server" /></ContentConditions>
                <TrueContentTemplate><CSControl:ModifiedUrl Tag="B" Text="Forum Posted In" QueryStringModification="Sort=SortOrder&PageIndex=1" runat="server" /></TrueContentTemplate>
                <FalseContentTemplate><CSControl:ModifiedUrl Text="Forum Posted In" QueryStringModification="Sort=SortOrder&PageIndex=1" runat="server" /></FalseContentTemplate>
            </CSControl:ConditionalContent>

        </div>
        <div class="CommonContentBoxContent">

            <%-- Set the description of the page based on the URL we're viewing --%>
            <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" Tag="Div" CssClass="CommonDescription" ResourceName="ViewUnansweredThreads_Description">
                <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Unanswered" /></DisplayConditions>
            </CSControl:ResourceControl>
            <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" Tag="Div" CssClass="CommonDescription" ResourceName="ViewActiveThreads_Description">
                <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Active" /></DisplayConditions>
            </CSControl:ResourceControl>
            <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" Tag="Div" CssClass="CommonDescription" ResourceName="ViewNotReadThreads_Description">
                <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_NotRead" /></DisplayConditions>
            </CSControl:ResourceControl>
            <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" Tag="Div" CssClass="CommonDescription" ResourceName="ViewVideos_Description">
                <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.post_Videos" /></DisplayConditions>
            </CSControl:ResourceControl>
            <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" Tag="Div" CssClass="CommonDescription" ResourceName="ViewMyForumsThreads_Description">
                <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.user_MyForums" /></DisplayConditions>
            </CSControl:ResourceControl>

            <CSForum:ThreadList runat="server" ID="FilteredThreadList" ShowHeaderFooterOnNone="false" OnDataBinding="FilteredThreadList_DataBinding">
                <QueryOverrides runat="server" PagerID="ThreadsPager" PageSize="20">
                    <ACControl:SortThreadsByGroupForumSortOrderQueryImplementation CacheQuery="true" SortBySortOrder="true" runat="server" />
                </QueryOverrides>
                <HeaderTemplate>
                    <div class="CommonListArea">
                    <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                        <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                            <DisplayConditions runat="server" Operator="Not"><CSControl:CustomCondition CustomResult='<%# GroupByForum %>' runat="server" /></DisplayConditions>
                            <ContentTemplate>
                                <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                                <thead>
                                <tr>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader" colspan="2"><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_Posts" /></th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader">Author</th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader"><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_TitleViews" /></th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader"><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_TitleReplies" /></th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader">Last Post</th>
                                </tr>
                                </thead>
                            </ContentTemplate>
                        </CSControl:PlaceHolder>
                        <tbody>
                </HeaderTemplate>
                <ItemTemplate>
                        <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                            <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:CustomCondition CustomResult='<%# ShowForumHeader((int)Eval("SectionId")) %>' runat="server" /></DisplayConditions>
                            <ContentTemplate>
                                <%-- Putting in a second Condition Control screws up using Eval, so have to nest two placeholder cotnrols --%>
                                <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                                    <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSControl:ControlVisibilityCondition ControlId="GroupHeader" ControlVisiblilityEquals="false" runat="server" /></DisplayConditions>
                                    <ContentTemplate>
                            </tbody>
                            </table>
                            <CSForum:ForumData runat="server" Property="Name" LinkTo="HomePage" Tag="H4" CssClass="CommonListTitle" />

                            <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                            <thead>
                            <tr>
                                <th class="CommonListHeader" colspan="2"><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_Posts" /></th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader">Author</th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader"><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_TitleViews" /></th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader"><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_TitleReplies" /></th>
                                    <th class="CommonListHeader ForumMyRepliesHeader">Last Post</th>
                            </tr>
                            </thead>
                            <tbody>
                                    </ContentTemplate>
                                </CSControl:PlaceHolder>
                            </ContentTemplate>
                        </CSControl:PlaceHolder>

                        <tr class="<%# IsAlternatingTemplate((Container.DataItem as Post).PostID) ? "CommonListRowAlt" : "CommonListRow" %>">
                            <CSForum:ThreadStatusIcon runat="server" Tag="Td" CssClass="CommonListCell ForumMyImageColumn" />
                            <td class="CommonListCell ForumMyNameColumn dug_column">
                                <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                                    <tr>
                                        <td class="ForumSubListCellLeftMost">
                                            <CSForum:ThreadEmoticon runat="server" />
                                            <CSForum:ThreadData Property="Subject" TruncateAt="65" LinkTo="Thread" LinkCssClass="ForumNameRead" runat="server"><DisplayConditions><CSForum:ThreadPropertyComparison ComparisonProperty1="HasRead" Operator="IsSetOrTrue" runat="server" /></DisplayConditions></CSForum:ThreadData>
                                            <CSForum:ThreadData Property="Subject" TruncateAt="65" LinkTo="Thread" LinkCssClass="ForumNameUnRead" runat="server"><DisplayConditions Operator="Not"><CSForum:ThreadPropertyComparison ComparisonProperty1="HasRead" Operator="IsSetOrTrue" runat="server" /></DisplayConditions></CSForum:ThreadData>
                                        </td>
                                        <td class="ForumSubListCell" align="right" nowrap="nowrap">
                                            <CSForum:ThreadRating runat="server" IsReadOnly="true" RatingCssClass="CommonRateControl" RatingReadOnlyCssClass="CommonRateControlReadOnly" RatingActiveCssClass="CommonRateControlActive" ImagesBaseUrl="~/Themes/hawaii/images/common/" />

                                            <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                                                <DisplayConditions runat="server" Operator="And">
                                                    <CSForum:ForumConfigurationPropertyValueComparison ComparisonProperty="EnableThreadStatus" Operator="IsSetOrTrue" runat="server" />
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison ComparisonProperty="Status" Operator="EqualTo" ComparisonValue="NotAnswered" runat="server" />
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison runat="server" ComparisonProperty="ThreadType" ComparisonValue="QuestionAndAnswer" Operator="EqualTo" />
                                                </DisplayConditions>
                                                <ContentTemplate><CSControl:ThemeImage ImageUrl="~/images/status_NotAnswered.gif" runat="server" AlternateTextResourceName="Unanswered" /></ContentTemplate>
                                            </CSControl:PlaceHolder>

                                            <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                                                <DisplayConditions runat="server" Operator="And">
                                                    <CSForum:ForumConfigurationPropertyValueComparison ComparisonProperty="EnableThreadStatus" Operator="IsSetOrTrue" runat="server" />
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison ComparisonProperty="Status" Operator="EqualTo" ComparisonValue="Answered" runat="server" />
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison runat="server" ComparisonProperty="ThreadType" ComparisonValue="QuestionAndAnswer" Operator="EqualTo" />
                                                </DisplayConditions>
                                                <ContentTemplate><CSControl:ThemeImage ImageUrl="~/images/status_Answered.gif" runat="server" AlternateTextResourceName="Status_VerifiedAnswer" /></ContentTemplate>
                                            </CSControl:PlaceHolder>

                                            <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                                                <DisplayConditions Operator="And">
                                                    <CSForum:ForumConfigurationPropertyValueComparison ComparisonProperty="EnableThreadStatus" Operator="IsSetOrTrue" runat="server" />
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison ComparisonProperty="Status" Operator="EqualTo" ComparisonValue="AnsweredNotVerified" runat="server" />
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison runat="server" ComparisonProperty="ThreadType" ComparisonValue="QuestionAndAnswer" Operator="EqualTo" />
                                                </DisplayConditions>
                                                <ContentTemplate><CSControl:ThemeImage ImageUrl="~/images/status_SuggestedAnswer.gif" runat="server" AlternateTextResourceName="Status_SuggestedAnswer" /></ContentTemplate>
                                            </CSControl:PlaceHolder>
                                        </td>
                                    </tr>
                                </table>
                                <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server" >
                                    <DisplayConditions runat="server" Operator="Not"><CSControl:CustomCondition CustomResult='<%# GroupByForum %>' runat="server" /></DisplayConditions>
                                    <ContentTemplate>
                                        <table width="100%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0">
                                            <tr>
                                                <td class="ForumSubListCellLeftMost ForumLastPost">
                                                    <CSForum:ForumData runat="server" LinkTo="HomePage" Property="Name"><LeaderTemplate>Posted to </LeaderTemplate></CSForum:ForumData>
                                                </td>
                                                <td class="ForumSubListCellPager">
                                                    <CSForum:ThreadPostPageLinks runat="server" />
                                                </td>
                                            </tr>
                                        </table>
                                    </ContentTemplate>
                                </CSControl:PlaceHolder>
                            </td>
                        <td class="CommonListCell ForumMyAuthorColumn dug_column_c">
                            <CSControl:UserData runat="server" LinkTo="Profile" TruncateAt="16" Property="DisplayName" />
                        </td>
                        <td class="CommonListCell ForumMyRepliesColumn dug_column_c">
                            <CSForum:ThreadData Property="Views" runat="server" />
                        </td>
                        <td class="CommonListCell ForumMyRepliesColumn dug_column_c">
                            <CSForum:ThreadData Property="Replies" runat="server" />
                        </td>
                        <td class="CommonListCell ForumMyLastPostColumn dug_column">
                            <CSControl:PlaceHolder runat="server">
                                <DisplayConditions runat="server"><CSForum:ThreadPropertyValueComparison ID="ThreadPropertyValueComparison1" ComparisonProperty="ThreadDate" ComparisonValue="6/8/1980" Operator="GreaterThan" runat="server" /></DisplayConditions>
                                <ContentTemplate>
                                    <CSForum:ThreadData LinkTitleText="Show the last post" LinkTo="MostRecentPost" Property="ThreadDate" runat="server" IncludeTimeInDate="true"></CSForum:ThreadData>
                                    <CSForum:ThreadData LinkTitleText="Show the users profile" LinkTo="MostRecentPostAuthor" Property="MostRecentPostAuthor" runat="server" TruncateAt="15" ><LeaderTemplate><br />by </LeaderTemplate></CSForum:ThreadData>
                                </ContentTemplate>
                            </CSControl:PlaceHolder>
                        </td>
                        </tr>
                </ItemTemplate>
                <FooterTemplate>
                    </tbody>
                    </table>
                    </div>
                </FooterTemplate>
                <NoneTemplate>
                    <div class="CommonMessageWarning">
                        <CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="ViewThreads_NoTopics" />
                    </div>
                </NoneTemplate>
            </CSForum:ThreadList>
        </div>
        <div class="CommonContentBoxFooter">
            <CSControl:Pager runat="server" ID="ThreadsPager" ShowTotalSummary="true" />

            <CSForum:AggregateRss runat="server">
                <DisplayConditions Operator="Not">
                    <CSControl:CurrentSiteUrlCondition runat="server" SiteUrlName="forums.user_MyForums" />
                </DisplayConditions>
                <ContentTemplate><CSControl:ResourceControl runat="server" ResourceName="Rss" CssClass="dug_rss_button_small" /></ContentTemplate>
            </CSForum:AggregateRss>
        </div>
    </div>
</asp:Content>

PS: Why did Telligent remove the [ CODE ][ /CODE ] tag?

Wiki Page: Configurable Addons

Alex — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:04:00 GMT

Four Configurable Addons are available in the AlexCrome.Evolution 5.0 addon package for the Telligent Evolution Platform (Teligent Community and Telligent Enterprise)

[[Table Of Contents]] - Automatically builds a Table of Contents from any Heading tags (h1-h6) in use in a page or post when the content contains [toc] – see an example above.
[[Referral Points]] – Gives members points if they successfully invite new members to join the Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[Notify On User Create]] (also a [[CSModules|CSModule]]) – Sends an email to configured email addresses whenever a new user joins a Telligent Evolution Platform community.
[[Search Engine Ping]] (also a [[CSModules|CSModule]]) – Pings search engines to let them know when new content is added to a Telligent Evolution Platform community.

These Configurable Addons may be configured through the [[Manage Addon Configurations]] widget.

Blog Post: AlexCrome.Evolution 5.0 Addons for the Telligent Evolution Platform

Alex — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:32:00 GMT

After a period of inactivity I am finally ready to publish the 5.0 version of my addons which have been upgraded to be compatible with the Telligent Evolution Platform (that is Teligent Community and Telligent Enterprise)

New Functionality

The following is a list of the main new features since the previous version. For a full list of functionality see the documentation.

New Classic Forum Display Widget – The Classic Forum Display widget displays a list of forums in a particular group and direct sub groups, grouped by the group the forums are in
Table of Contents redesign – The Table of Contents addon has had a makeover to better fit into the new theme
Mange Addons page is now a widget – The Manage Addons page has been moved out of the control panel and into a Manage Addons Configuration widget – this prevents upgrades from removing the link to the Manage Addons page in the Control Panel.
General Refactoring – Improvements have been made to the underlying codebase which make it easier to write additional Configurable Addons and deal with Dynamic Configuration. I shall be blogging a more about this in the future.

Removed Functionality

The following features have been removed since AlexCrome.CS 2008.5.

Quick Reply – this is now implemented out of the box
Copy Wiki Page to Blog
Refresh Cache on Comment
Set Anonymous User Roles
Subscribe to Hub on Join

Wiki Page: Classic Forum Display

Alex — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:30:00 GMT

The Classic Forum Display widget displays a list of forums in a particular group and direct sub groups, grouped by the group the forums are in. Optionally allows forums within a particular group to be sorted by forum name, last post date, thread counts and reply counts. You may see this widget in action at http://alexcrome.co.uk/f/ .

Configuration

The following describes the options available when you configure the widget.

Display

The Display tab contains options that control how the widget appears to users.

Widget Title – Sets the text that appears in the Widget’s header.
Group Banner
- Show Group Avatar – Specifies whether the Group Avatar is shown next to the Group Name. The following screenshots show what the group banner looks with and without the avatar.
  - With avatar
  - Without avatar
- Show Group Description – Specifies whether a group description is rendered under the group name. The following screenshots show what the group banner looks like with and without a description.
  - With description
  - Without description
Columns
- Show Last Post Column – Specifies whether the Last Post column is shown to users
- Show Thread Count Column – Specifies whether the Threads column is shown to users
- Show Post Count Column – Specifies whether the Posts column is shown to users.

Functionality

The Functionality tab contains options that control how users interact with the Classic Forum Display widget.

Allow Favouriting Groups – Specifies whether users may favourite a group from the widget. If allowed, this is done by clicking the star icon next to the group’s name
Allow Favouriting Forums – Specifies whether users may favourite or unfavourite forums from within the widget. If allowed, this may be done by clicking on the star icon next to a forum’s name.
Allow sorting – Specifies whether users may sort forums within individual groups. If allowed, users may sort Forums by either: the name; last post date; number of threads in the forum or number of posts, simply by clicking on the header of a particular column on a Group’s Forum list

Data

The data tab controls the data that the widget shows to end users.

Group – Allows users to show forums from within a particular group. If this is not set, the Group to display data from will be determined from the context in which the widget is located..
Show Forums Within Group – Specifies whether a list of forums that are directly contained within the current Group are shown.
Show Forums in Child Group – Specifies whether a list of forums that are contained within Child groups of the Group selected in the current group .

Notes

This widget will only display forums that are contained within the current group, and it’s direct children. It will not show forums from a group that is a child of a child of the current group.