blog bits
- Man, I have been WAITING for this! Jose has begun providing information about Morpheus on the CS Wiki. I'm linking to Dan Hounshell's notice about the Morpheus docs since he describes Jose as the "Leader of the Free World." That's all I needed to hear. Consider the "Jose Lema for President 2008" campaign officially launched!
- What's coming, the Community Server Roadmap. The Maui July 2007 release will sport a new "public and private" approach to blogs and photo galleries that will enable much larger communities, with possible OpenID and CardSpace support as well. The Hawaii release in October will have two focus areas. First Pearl, with a rearchitected data provider to facilitate new applications, and Oahu (the "big one"), with multiple sub-community support (hubs.) Also in the works besides Maui and Hawaii are a hosted version of Mail Gateway and the first public web service release.
- A new Community Server Daily News tip from ScottW (with hat tip to Ben) that I wanted to make sure I had a permalink to in CS Bits. Chameleon Tip: How to process the first item in a list control differently.
- Jose is seeking input on the Member Points System. Please give his new overview a look-see and provide your thoughts. Interestingly, as Jose mentions, Member Points are now supported in all purchased versions of Community Server, from the Personal Edition on up.
- Scott Watermasysk announces a new "Is this article helpful?" feature in the Community Server KB and Wiki. I want that! Ya know, I was wondering after reading this whether any KB and Wiki source will be made available when they're released?
- Keyvan shares a new Windows Live Writer plugin with us. Insert Acronym. Instructional source listed in his post as well. Keyvan was one of the first who demonstrated how to write a Writer plugin and I'm happy to see he's still at it. I should try to rekindle my Live Writer Plugin passion since I spend so much time in Writer, kinda like at this very moment.
- Ben Tiedt updates the "Creating New Themes in CS2007" post that he originally published in February. A definitive reference, like much of what Ben writes.
- I actually posted some non-CS Byte Community Server type info on my blog including the fix for the CS2007 bug of moderated forum posts not displaying, a Queensryche piece on the CS2007 threadset query object, and a quickie on new forum notification of moderated posts in CS2007.
forum bits
- So, Wyatt and Ben are working on a new book on Community Server theming, eh? Alright! Available sometime in the fall.
- Anything Ben has to say about CSS is CS Bit Worthy: CSS class names are case sensitive. Something most probably know but good for those who don't.
- Great example from Ben on how the quality of CS2007 life is better with how to add a poll to a site home page using the ForumPostList Chameleon control.
- Ben on CSControl and CSForum differences. "So, in general, you could use a <CSControl:IndexPostList /> control to retrieve posts from all applications or just forums, but some forums-specific fields and links will only be supported by <CSForum:ThreadList />, <CSForum:ThreadData />, <CSForum:ForumPostList />, and <CSForum:ForumPostData /> controls."
- How to display blogger profile information on any blog page with Chameleon, from Ben.
- Ben shows how to use the SectionApplicationKeysToSearch property of QueryOverrides with the IndexPostList to search multiple sections by appKey. Dang, that sounded geeky! By the way, a bug in the RTM caused this not to work, which is why I advocated downloading the updated (post 4/26) releases of CS2007. As a good related link that we also covered last time, Ben shows how to add multiple applicationTypes for the homepage "What's New" query.
- ScottW on opening Mirrored Blog links in a new window. "You just need to add LinkTarget="_new" to the WeblogPostData control." Too easy.
- I mentioned this thread the other day, where Jeff Espenschied demonstrated how to override the SiteUrl.config to use /forums as the site home page. I'm mentioning it again today because he went even further by demonstrating how to go to a specific forum group as the site home page. The same principal applies if you want use an individual forum as well once you get the hang of SiteUrl overrides.
- The fix for the CS2007 Security Exception, from daveburke.