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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 Ranks


As an Administrator, you can specify ranks for your members. You can set a specific range within which a member can be assigned an appropriate rank. A rank denotes how active a user is within the forum. For instance, a member who posts a minimum of 5 posts can be recognized as a Beginner and those who post more than 50 posts as Advanced. Let us now examine the steps involved in the creation and management of ranks.

Creating a Rank

Firstly, navigate to the Dashboard by selecting the Control Panel link after logging in as an Administrator and click the link titled Administration. Pull down the Forums panel from the navigation bar located on the left-hand side and click Manage Ranks. You will see a new page with an empty grid. In order to create a new rank, select the Add A New Rank button and enter the required information on the pop-up dialog box as shown in the following screenshot. Click on the Save button to add the rank to the forum.

From the above screenshot, you...