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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

Posting the Message to the Forum


As soon as you click on the Post button, the message will be added to the relevant forum as shown below:

From the above screenshot, you can observe that the message has been posted by a user with the username admin. Moreover, the admin has made a total number of five posts. The posts made on the blogs also count towards the total. The page also mentions the date on which the user joined the site. As noted earlier, the page also displays the tags used for posting this message under the section Filed Under. These tags will be available when you submit another post later on.

Members can rate the post and also activate email subscription. If this feature is enabled, members will receive an email as and when a new post has been posted on this thread. You can also change the view to Flat View or Threaded View using the Change View drop-down list.

On the right-hand side, you will see a series of buttons, which are used for various purposes while working with the relevant...