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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

Searching


As you can see from the above screenshot, the search functionality is initially displayed by default. You can search for members using different criteria such as their role or status. You can also refine the search using username, email address, number of posts, date of joining, and date on which the user was active on the site. Clicking the Search button without entering any options displays a page populated with all the registered users of your site as shown in the screenshot on the next page:

As your site grows, the number of users will increase. You can choose how many users should be displayed on the search results page by selecting the required option from the Items per page drop-down box, which is highlighted in the above screenshot.

You can also perform a search by selecting the required dates from the Filter By Date panel. You can either choose the date of creation of a post, or the date on which the last post was submitted on the site. First, you need to pick the relevant...