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Community Server Quickly

By : Anand Narayanaswamy
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Community Server Quickly

By: Anand Narayanaswamy

Overview of this book

Community Server is Telligent System's award-winning solution for quickly and easily enabling online communities. It includes a suite of integrated applications, such as blogs, discussion forums, photo sharing, file sharing, email lists, newsgroups, and more, which together can help you create your community presence. Community Server is the trusted solution for many organizations ranging from Microsoft and Dell to Conde Nast and Match.com, and powers massive communities like the Microsoft ASP.NET forums (www.asp.net/forums) and the XBOX forums (forums.xbox.com). You can learn more about Community Server, and see it in action, at http://www.communityserver.org. Written in a clear and concise manner, this book will guide you through the installation, administration, customization, and deployment of a Community Server solution. With the help of this book you will be able to start using your Community Server site within minutes of its installation. The book kicks off with a brief overview of Community Server, its various editions and licensing options, and installation procedures and then delves deep into the creation and management of blogs, forums, photo galleries, file galleries, and more. The book also explores the different ways you can customize your Community Server site along with coverage of various add-ons and modules. You will also learn how to manage your Community Server license and other related settings. Towards the end, the book provides an overview of the various steps required to deploy Community Server to a hosting server.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Community Server Quickly
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
Acknowledgements
About the Reviewers
Preface

Working with the Exceptions Report


In programming jargon, exceptions mean run-time errors. We often face a lot of problems when we run applications either locally or on a remote server. Community Server enables you to generate these kinds of errors in a report format sorted by the date of their occurrence. By default, a report of all exceptions is generated and displayed upon selecting the Exceptions Report link located under the Reports section from the Site Administration page as shown in the following screenshot:

Note

You can access the Site Administration page by clicking the Control Panel link and selecting the Administration link from the Dashboard.

As you can observe from the above screenshot, the report shows the type of exception, the IP address from where it occurred, the date of occurrence, and the number of times the specified error occurred. It also displays the browser and operating system used when the exception occurred, its path, and the sequence of events that led to the...