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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

Analyzing the Forums Home Page of an Administrator


In the previous sections, you have learned about the creation and management of forums. Let us now examine the elements inside the forums home page of an Administrator as shown on the next page.

As you can see each forum group has been placed inside a separate panel. Each panel can be expanded and collapsed as per your requirements. For instance, if you click on the group name titled Microsoft, a new page will be displayed that will contain only those forums filed under the Microsoft group.

Note

You should note that these features are available for both users and Administrators.

Alternatively, you can also navigate to the relevant forums and posts by selecting the required option from the links located below the top navigation bar inside each forum page as shown below:

The forum group panels can be expanded and collapsed using the appropriate arrow located on the top right-hand side as you can see on the screenshot in the next page.

By default...