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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 Articles


Articles are short content, compositions or publications on a certain subject posted on the site. You can link them while creating blog or forum posts. The difference between blog posts and articles is that your users can only view the posted content. They cannot post comments or rate the article. This feature will be useful if you would like to showcase certain content that doesn't require user feedback.

You can create and manage articles by clicking the Manage/Create Articles link. Community Server will display the content editor immediately after selecting the Create new article button from the Manage Articles page. The look and feel of the content editor will be the same as we saw while discussing blogs and forums.

You need to give the name for the article, a headline title, and the required content inside the content editor as shown in the following screenshot:

The above article is saved and created immediately upon clicking the Save Changes button. You can also...