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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 the Member Points System


Community Server includes a system called Member Points with which you can allocate specified numbers of points according to the activities performed by each member on the site. These activities include submission of posts, posting a reply, and much more. But in order to work with this feature, you require a standard license or above of Community Server.

As an Administrator, you can manage points by clicking the Manage Member Points System setting. Firstly, you need to activate the Enable Member Points System setting from the General tab of the Manage Member Points System page. Let us examine the settings included in each tab in detail.

General

With the help of the settings on this tab you can enable and control the visibility of points for posts and users.

Enable the Member Points System

You can enable or disable member points by selecting the required value. By default, this setting is disabled. As noted earlier, you need to enable the setting. If it...