blog bits
- The Wizard, fresh from Assimilation into the Telligent Collective, takes the CS2007 plunge. As long as he keeps that handsome mug of his displayed on the sidebar, I'm happy with whatever version of CS he wants to use.
- I still don't get how Keyvan Nayyeri can post new CS Dev Guides as a fresh military recruit. That Iranian Army must be Party Central. Still, no complaints from Anytown, USA and elsewhere who enjoy Keyvan's newest guide on the GalleryPost. We love the Post base class, from which the GalleryPost is derived. We LOVE the Post base class! Keyvan provides a code excerpt which describes how photos are stored in the Attachment object and added to the GalleryPost object on AddNewPhoto().
- Ben Tiedt shows how Chameleon CustomCondition and CustomAction controls support code-based actions through their exposed CustomEvent event. Ben's demonstration of creating a Custom Event Handler explains the point very clearly. You don't realize how powerful Ben's Chameleon model is until you work with it, which I just recently started doing. I kid you not, I've said "Wow!" out loud several times, especially when building an original CS2007 control patterned after Chameleon's ObjectData and ObjectList, then making simple property changes in HTML to affect their display and behavior. "Wow!" There, I said it again!
forum bits
- Aaron Coleman posts a really excellent document describing how to change the ContentPart to support specific roles passed in an AllowedRoles property. The mod requires updates to Controls\ContentPart.cs and Controls\EditContent.cs which Aaron describes. Next stop, the same mod to CS2007 (if not already supported, and I don't think it is) and dropped into a separate DLL for CS Generation Next!
- What we have here is...no, not a failure to communicate as I was expecting, but in the words of Dan Bartels, a weakness in the CS gallery application in treating permissions in an all-or-none fashion similar to blog permissions. Conversational DanB (which I always enjoy and learn a great deal from) with links to workarounds on supporting photo upload roles without exposing full ownership functions.
- A question on tag support when posting by email to forums from robh of Oregon. Ken Robertson replies to a follow-up question that tag support for email posts to forums will not be supported in CS2007 out of the box, though Scott Watermasysk does mention that CS currently supports this in blogs which could be modified for forums.
- CS Classic thread here between J-O, Keyvan, Ken and Dan on the Enterprise Search Index. Lucene, jobs, location and permissions of the index directory and indexing options discussed.
- Essential thread from July 2006 on setting up a Paypal Donate button. I realized that this thread wasn't in the CS Bits reference library so being the Good Librarian I am reposting it here.
- This is my favorite Forum Bit of the day, and we've got some real goodies today. Maybe because its from Jose Lema. Here he shows how to create an RSS feed url to display Active Topics for a selected forum rather than the default All Forums display of Active Topics. The solution was suggested in the context of filtering the Active Topics display.
- The great Disappearing Forums Mystery, a Bisnut Production. This was interesting, as Bisnut (user CFAITH) reported that forums were disappearing for certain users after they signed-in. Bisnut followed the digital crumbs to the users' propertyvalues and propertynames cs_userprofile fields, and ultimately uncovered that the culprits had marked the English language for exclusion in their User Profile. Eat your heart out, Agatha. Screenshots and details provided by The Bisnut in a post on his forums site.