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Some Notes about Community Server 2007 SP3

I've just added descriptions and notes to docs.communityserver.org regarding some of the changes in SP3 I was involved with: Tags: Is there a way to hide TagClouds when they have no tags to display? Introduction to Chameleon: New TruncationEllipsisTemplate on Single Value Controls Blogs: How can...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-28-2007
Community Server 2007 Sub Forms

Earlier this week I was spending most of my time converting the Microsoft Dynamics Live Community site from Community Server 2.1 to Community Server 2007 . One of the things that had been done on the original site was to extend the user sign up process to capture a bunch of metadata as well as the usual...

Posted to Rich Mercer (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-27-2007
Discussing Chameleon on Telligent.com

Ado just posted the latest installment of the TelliCast video blog series in which I get to talk about Chameleon , Dynamic Configuration, and another project I'm working on...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-25-2007
Extending User Registration using Sub-Forms

A common Community Server customization involves adding fields to the registration form (CreateUserForm control) and performing custom actions based on these fields. Chameleon provides an easy way to extend the CreateUserForm control by using Sub-Forms. Sub-Forms are controls that can be registered against...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-15-2007
CS2007 Chameleon Base Classes

For those of you diving into the Community Server 2007 SDK and learning about the inner workings of Chameleon to create custom controls , I thought it would be helpful to outline the base control classes available to Chameleon control developers. The list below outlines the base controls existing within...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-17-2007
Adding New Themed Pages in CS2007

To add a new page to a theme in CS2007, Add the page to SiteUrls_Override.config The SiteUrls.config file defines all of the rewritten URLs within Community Server. The SiteUrls_Override.config file within the root of the Community Server installation can be used to customize the base SiteUrls.config...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-14-2007
CS2007 Theme Contest

This is just a friendly reminder to be sure to submit one or more themes to the CS2007 Theming Extravaganza contest. You can enter a full theme or a theme configuration (an export from the theme configuration page in the control panel). Prizes include MacBooks , XBOX 360 Elites , and Amazon gift cards...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-09-2007
Updates to Creating New Themes in CS2007

I just wanted to point out that I made a few changes to the Creating New Themes in CS2007 post to highlight some common changes that will need to be made when copying the out-of-the-box site themes. The changes include notes to update the name and preview information of newly created themes and instructions...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2007
Introduction to Chameleon - In Chinese

Deerchao has translated the Introduction to Chameleon blog series into Chinese. If you read Chinese, can read this, and would like to get started using the new theming engine in Community Server 2007, go read Deerchao's Introduction to Chameleon in Chinese .

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-02-2007
A Very Simple 1 to 3 Column XHTML/CSS Layout with Table-like Behavior

I'm working on some new themes for Community Server 2007 and wanted to get rid of the table-based layout used in the current default theme. The problem with going from a table-based layout to a table-less layout is that all of the examples that I've seen lost one of the best features of tables...

Posted to Ben Tiedt (Weblog) by Anonymous on 03-28-2007

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