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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

Posting a Thread as an Administrator


Let us now discuss how to post a thread to one of our sample forums — ASP.NET 2.0. We assume that you are logged in as an Administrator. Navigate to the home page by clicking on the Forums link from the navigation bar and select the appropriate forum. Initially, you will view a page as shown below:

You can sort the posts under the specific forum using different criteria found under the Sorting and Notifications panel by clicking the More Options button. In addition to this, you can also choose an option for notification. Community Server will automatically deliver an email to the logged in user whenever new posts are posted to the relevant forum. The panel also shows the various features and permissions that are available for the specific forum.

Click on the Write a New Post button to post a new thread. You will now see a new page, which contains a text editor with six tabs as shown below.

By default, a standard text editor with a limited set of options...