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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

Managing Roles


You can globally manage the roles assigned to the various members with the help of the Manage All Roles link located under the Membership section.

You can, not only add new roles, but also view a list of members who have been allocated a specific role. We will now examine for which users the site administrator has allocated Moderator status. Select the View Members button from the Moderator row.

As you can see from the above screenshot, the Role drop-down box displays the name of the role, which is moderator. There are currently two members who are assigned the status of moderator. In the similar way, you can display a list of all members who have been allocated various roles.

You can create new role by clicking the Add New Role button on top right-hand side of the Manage All Roles page. You need to enter the required information such as the Name and Description of the role in the Edit Role pop-up dialog box. You can also upload an icon, which will be displayed along with...