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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

Browsing All Members


As soon as you click on the link titled Browse People located under the Membership panel, a list of all registered members will be displayed as we have seen previously in this chapter. We have already discussed the various options on the page in the previous section. In this section, we will examine some of the hidden options on the page. As noted earlier, a pop-up menu will be displayed when you click the button captioned Actions as shown in the screenshot:

The above screenshot shows four options which enable you to modify the username and password of the specific user, add/remove roles, and also delete the user. Let us examine each of these options in detail.

Modifying the Username

In order to modify the username of a member, you should select the Change Username option from the pop-up menu shown in the previous screenshot. This brings up the following dialog box:

As you can see we have entered a new username in the Desired UserName field. As soon as you click the...