Community Server Quickly电子书

Community Server Quickly

Table of Contents

Community Server Quickly

Credits

Foreword

About the Author

Acknowledgements

About the Reviewers

Preface

What This Book Covers

What You Need for This Book

Conventions

Reader Feedback

Customer Support

Companion Website

Errata

Questions

1. Introducing Community Server

What is Community Server?

Blog

Forums

Photo Gallery

File Gallery

Reader and Roller

The Evolution

A Comparison with DotNetNuke (DNN)

Editions and Licensing

Express

Standard

Professional

Enterprise

Hosted

What's New in Community Server 3.0 (or Calypso)?

Chameleon

Morpheus

Zion

Tallyman

Summary

2. Getting Started with Community Server

Prerequisites

Downloading Community Server

Install Options

Using Windows Installer to Download Community Server

Using Web Installer to Download Community Server

Installing Community Server

Installing Community Server Using the Windows Installer

Configuring Community Server

Connecting to the Database

Windows Authentication vs. SQL Server Authentication

Configuring the Administrator Account

Launching Community Server

Installing Community Server Using the Web Installer

Creating a Database Using SQL Server

Using the Installation Wizard

Testing the Installation of Community Server

Navigating the Control Panel Dashboard

Summary

3. Working with Blogs

Understanding Blogs

Blog Groups

Creating a Blog Group

Managing Blog Groups

Creating a Blog

Managing Permissions

Managing a Blog

Writing your Blog Entry

Viewing a Blog Post

Working with Comments

Viewing Comments

Generating Email Alerts

Managing Comments

Managing Content

Managing Posts

Moderating Blogs and Comments

Approving Comments

Working with Blog Pages

Working with Tags

Working with Blog Lists

Working with Snippets

Displaying General Information on the Blog

Working with Global Settings

Supplying Title, Description, and News

Changing the Appearance of your Blog

Configuring Email Settings

Working with Post Settings

Understanding Blog-Level Settings

Understanding Syndication using RSS & Atom

Working with Spam, Ping, and Cross-Posting Settings

Rating Blog Posts

Managing Blogs Globally

Configuring Blogs for Members

Summary

4. Working with Forums

A Brief History of Forums

Getting Started: A Sample Forum

Introduction to Creating Forums

Creating Forum Groups

Creating Forums

Basic

Advanced

User Permissions

Admin Permissions

Viewing Sample Forums

Posting a Thread as an Administrator

Compose

Options

Video

Poll

Related

Preview

Posting the Message to the Forum

Replying to a Post

Replying to a Post with a Quote

Deleting a Post

Editing a Post

Working with Favorites

Managing Contacts

Moderating a Post

Sorting and Navigating Posts

Threads versus Posts

Moderating Posts

Approving a Post

Merging Posts

Moving Posts

Locking Posts

Managing Forum Settings Globally

Managing General Post Settings

Managing Post Editing

Managing Attachments

Managing Duplicates and Flooding

Managing Popular Posts

Working with Ranks

Creating a Rank

Viewing the Rank

Analyzing the Forums Home Page of an Administrator

Shortcuts

Viewing a List of All Users

Posts you have Not Read

Forum Subscriptions

Popular Tags

My Discussions

Active

Unanswered

Most Active Users

Analyzing the Forums Home Page of a User

Personalizing the Home Page

Summary

5. Working with Galleries

About Galleries

Building a Photo Gallery

Creating a Photo Gallery: Getting Started

Creating a Gallery Group

Creating a Photo Gallery

Settings

Permissions

Theme

CSS Overrides

Layout Options

Quotas

Adding Photos

Content

Options

Advanced Options

Preview

Viewing Photos

Navigating Photos

Posting Comments

Managing Comments

Moderating Comments

Managing Tags

Working with Albums

Creating Albums

Managing Albums

Customizing your Photo Gallery

Modifying the Title and Description

Modifying the Appearance of your Gallery

Skins

Layout Options

Configuring the About Page

Changing the Categorization Method

Managing Post Settings

Default Post Settings

Managing Advanced Post Settings

Managing Advanced Photo Settings

Watermarking Photos

Displaying the Properties of a Photo

Importing Photos

Advanced Syndication Settings

Building a File Gallery

Getting Started

Creating a Folder Group

Creating a Folder

Settings

Options

Permissions

Managing a Folder

Uploading a File

Working with Comments

Managing Settings

Title and Description

Advanced File Settings

Advanced Syndication Settings

Accessing the File Gallery

Viewing the Download Report

Summary

6. Working with Reader and Roller

Overview

Working with Reader

Aggregating Feeds

Managing Feeds

Granting Permissions for Users to Access the Reader

Working with Roller

Managing Settings

Summary

7. Managing your Community's Users

The Community's Members

Getting Started

Searching

Navigating Search Pages

Examining Quick Lists Options

Top Contributors

Visitors in the Last 24 Hours

Recent Registrations

Users Awaiting Approval

Browsing All Members

Modifying the Username

Changing Passwords

Adding and Removing Roles

Deleting Users

Creating a New Account

Managing Roles

Managing Registration Settings

Allow Login

Allow Banned Users to Login

Allow New User Registration

Show Contact Checkboxes

New User Moderation Level

Username Regular Expression Pattern

Username Minimum Length

Username Maximum Length

Account Activation

Password Recovery

Password Regular Expression Pattern

Managing Account Profile Settings

Allow Signatures

Enable Signatures

Signature Maximum Length

Allow Gender

Enable User Theme Selection

Require Authentication for Profile Viewing

Member List Settings

Display Member List

Enable Advanced Member Searching

Enable Audit Counters

Members per Page

Managing Cookie and Anonymous Settings

Roles Cookie Enabled

Track Anonymous Users

Roles Cookie Name

Roles Cookie Expiration

Anonymous Cookie Name

Anonymous Cookie Expiration

Cookie Domain

Anonymous User Online Window

Managing Avatar Settings

Enable Avatars

Enable Remote Avatars

Avatar Dimensions

Summary

8. Customizing Community Server

Customizing the Home Page

Modifying Headings and Logos

Editing Content

Modifying the Theme of your Site

Modifying the Theme of your Blog

Modifying Themes

Modifying Themes Dynamically

Working with Add-ons

Using FreeTextBoxWrapper Control

Installing the FreeTextBoxWrapper Control

Working with Modules

Creating Custom Links

Summary

9. Working with Settings

Overview

Managing General Site Settings

Enable Ink

Display Site Description

Display Current Time

Display Who is Online

Display Site Statistics

Enable Display Names

Default Site URL

Terms of Service

Enable Content Language Filters

Display EULA Graphic

Managing Site Content

Site Name

Site Description

Search Meta Description

Search Meta Keywords

Raw Header

Copyright Notice

Applications

Managing Contact Information

Admin Email Address

Company/Organization Name

Company/Organization Email Address

Company/Organization Fax Number

Company/Organization Address

Managing RSS Settings

Enable Secure Syndication

Enable RSS Search

Managing Post Settings

Enable Anonymous Posting

Enable Post Censorship

Allow Emoticons

Forum Rating Type

User Posting Performance

Display User Rank as a Picture

Search Results/Page

Number of Top Posters

Managing Date and Time Settings

Time Zone

Date Format

Time Format

Thread Date Filter

Managing Email Settings

Enable Email

Email Encoding

Email Throttle

SMTP Server

Use Windows Integrated Authentication

SMTP Server Login Required

SMTP Server Login Name

SMTP Server Password

SMTP Port Number

Tracking the IP Address

Enable Tracking of Poster IP Address

Display Poster IP Address Publicly

Display Poster IP Address only to Administrators & Moderators

Summary

10. Working with Reports

Overview

Working with the Exceptions Report

Filtering the Exceptions Report

Working with the Jobs Report

Reporting with Community Server

Generating Reports for the Site

Generating Reports for Blogs

Generating Reports for Forums

Working with SQL Jobs

Creating SQL Jobs

Summary

11. Working with System Tools

Getting Started

Working with Ads

Enabling Ads

Implementing Google AdSense on your site

Implementing Amazon Associates on your Site

Implementing Inline Ads

Working with Disallowed Names

Working with Censorship

Creating Censored Words

Working with Smilies

Working with Articles

Working with Spam Blocker

Examining the Rules

Bad Word Count

Forbidden Word

IP Count

Link Count

Installing New Spam Rules

Working with the Member Points System

General

Enable the Member Points System

Post Points Visibility

User Points Visibility

Factor Values

Post Factor

Reply Factor

Replier Factor

Rating Factor

Download Factor

Downloader Factor

Favorite Post Factor

Favorite User Factor

Rater Factor

Calculate

Viewing Member Points

Working with Licenses

Working with URL Redirects

Handling Mass Emails

Banning an IP Address

Working with Event Log Viewer

Summary

A. Deploying Community Server

Registering a Domain Name

Obtaining a Web Space

Uploading Files

Index