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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

Blog Groups


Before we create a blog, we need to create a blog group. Blog groups are a way of organizing blogs within the site. For our understanding, we'll create a new blog group csbookblog for our blog.

Creating a Blog Group

In order to create a blog group, click on the link titled Blog Groups located under the Blogs navigation panel by selecting the Administration link on the Dashboard. You will view a new page as shown in the following screenshot. From the following screenshot, you will see that a sample blog group with the name Sample Weblogs has been automatically created by the installer.

Now, click the Add New Group button. A small window with the title New Group will pop up. Enter the required information in it as shown in the screenshot below and submit the page by clicking on the Save button.

You will be returned to the Site Administration page and the newly created blog group will appear below the default group as shown in the next screenshot:

Managing Blog Groups

You can edit or...