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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

Using FreeTextBoxWrapper Control


Community Server contains three different content editors that let you post content to your site namely: Plain Text, Standard, and Enhanced. But these editors don't provide advanced functionalities such as formatting source code, managing images, etc. These features are provided by a third‑party content editor called FreeTextBoxWrapper. The FreeTextBoxWrapper content editor is developed by George J. Capnias and is available for download at http://communityserver.org/files/folders/add-ons/default.aspx.

In order to download the control, you need to log in as a member and navigate to the Downloads section by clicking its link from the top navigation bar. Expand the tree titled Community Downloads and select the Add-on folder as shown below:

As soon as you click the link, you will see a list of all add-on files on the right-hand side of the page. You have to locate the link titled FreeTextBoxWrapper for Community Server v2.1 series. After locating the link,...