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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

Aggregating Feeds


In order to aggregate the RSS feeds, select Control Panel link from the top navigation bar after logging into the site as an administrator. Locate the link titled Manage feeds, control permissions, etc from the Reader Administration section. The Site Administration page will be displayed. You will see a set of four options under the section Reader (see the following screenshot) on the left-side navigation panel.

Note

You can also grant role-based permissions for each registered user of the site to access the reader and manage the feeds. The users can post their own unique content from the Reader Administration section after logging into their site. We will examine this in more detail later on in this chapter.

Click the Aggregated Feeds link and select the Add Feed button inside the page. You will see a page titled Add Aggregated Feed as shown in the following screenshot:

As you can see, the list box displays a list of all feeds that we added using reader. As soon as you...