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Russian language pack for Telligent Community 5.0 SP1

mitek — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 21:57:49 GMT

This is basic package for Russian lagnuage for both Telligent Community 5.0 SP1 and Telligent Enterprise 2.0 SP1. Create new directory 'ru' under \Languages, copy all files from zip archive into this directory, add 'ru' locale to langauges.xml and you're set.

Upupo Calendar

SIvanov — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:44:04 GMT

Upupo Calendar is a Community Server 5.0 widget and a few underlying services that allow converting posts into date-bound events with optional attendees and then displaying these events and additionally user's birthdays using calendar grid.

This control is free to use. It's based on legacy Community Server calendar functionality and uses ComponentArt.Web.UI distributed with older CS versions to display calendar grid.

Installation

The package includes a few dlls, resource, ascx, and css files.

To install it just unzip the archive into your CS5 root directory and follow simple instructions:

1. Unpack the archive content yo your CS5 root directory
2. If you're not yet using the "communityserver_override.config" file for customzation just rename the supplied "communtyserver_override.config.upupo-calendar" to "communityserver_override.config". Otherwise copy/paste the content of <Overrides> element to the end of <Overrides> element within your "communityserver_override.config" file.
3. You've done with installation.

How to use

Convert a Post to an Event

Create a new or edit an existing post. In the post editor you will see a new "insert event" button on the right side of the bottom toolbar. Press the button and the dialog window will popup prompting you to enter date and optionally attendees for your event. Populate data as required and press Ok.

You will see that some specially formated text is inserted in your post looking like this [cal]9-25-2009[/cal][users]John Doe,Admin[/users]. This is BB-coded instructions for Upupo Calendar services to convert your post to an event. Note that this instructions won't be displayed when reading the post and are only visible when you edit the post.

You can enter such BB-code manually if you like although the dialog provides extra level of convenience and ensures a BB-code is well-formated.

The event you just have added will be displayed in the calendar view above the date you specified as a link to your post. Your post title will be used as link description with a list of attendees above. For convenience attendee's lists are colour-coded using simple algorithm. A remain from division of User ID by 8 is used to pick up one of 8 colours. Of course this doesn't result in unique colour for each user but at least give some visual clue on what dates a user in question has events.

User's Birthdays

Nothing special is required. Installed underlying services will automatically process existing user prfiles and collect birthday information. The services also sets up an event havdlers to capture user profile updates and update birthday information on the fly.

Brithdays are displayed in calendar grid using the "cake" icon followed by user name.

Add Simple Calendar Widget to Your Pages

It's time to add Upupo Calendar widget to your pages. Go to page you'd like to customize and enter the Edit mode. In the widget filter box type "Simple" or "Calendar" to quickly find the Calendar widget.

Now drag and drop it to your page. Save and exit the Edit mode. Congratulations, now you should see your events in the calendar grid!

Upupo Calendar Control

SIvanov — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 22:22:33 GMT

The package includes a few dlls, resource, ascx, and css files.To install it just unzip the archive into your CS5 root directory and follow simple instructions provided in readme.txt.

See more details

Quick fix for error: mouse over of user name with spaces

mitek — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:13:40 GMT

There is a bug in Telligent Community 5.0 / Enterprise 2.0 with user info mouse over popup for users which have spaces or dashes in their names. It was reported for a while now and was know since RTM.

Since it wasn’t fixed in SP1 we guess it’s going to take some time till next SP.

For those who need this to be fixed now – we made a quick fix for this bug. See attachment to the post.

Installation is simple – unzip it into your \Web directory.

Re: Captcha Control With C5

mitek — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:26:49 GMT

Thanks akent! As I mentioned before CAPTCHA control do not have any dependencies on Community Server, so it should work for any version of CS.

Captcha Control With C5

akent — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 04:20:14 GMT

We have been using this captcha control with 2008.5 and it worked great. We recently changed to Telligent Community 5 and shortly after received a lot of spam registrations again :)

Anyways I am no expert but managed to get the Captcha Control working the following way:

\bin\Upupo.Captcha.dll
\CaptchaImage.aspx
\Utility\ContentFragments\Core\CreateUser.ascx (merge with the createuser.aspx file)

I am attaching my createuser.ascx file in case someone needs it or manages to clean it up / improve it further

[View:http://upupo-soft.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/CommunityServer.Discussions.Components.Files/15/0081.CreateUser.zip:550:0]

Re: Captcha Control With CS 2008.5 SP2

Aurelian — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 21:28:07 GMT

If your community server installation resides in a non-root folder "ie" "/CS" then be sure to modify the createuserfile.aspx line that reads:

ImageUrl="/CaptchaImage.aspx"

into

ImageUrl="/CS/CaptchaImage.aspx"

Hope it helps.

Aurelian POPA

I've applied it to www.ronua.ro without any problems..
Under 3 mintues installation.

Captcha Control With CS 2008.5 SP2

scole76@gmail.com — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 23:00:36 GMT

I am trying to use the Captcha Control with CS 2008.5 SP2. Is there any known issues with this? I am receiving a red X signalling there is no image for the control.

Any help would be appreciated.

Sean

Captcha Control

mitek — Wed, 27 May 2009 00:33:23 GMT

This is simple free Captcha control for Community Server 2008.5 we decided to share with dev community. Package consist of dll and aspx file.

Just unzip attachment into your /Web directory. We also included an example of createuser.aspx (see it under hawaii). Don't forget to put file \Themes\hawaii\createuser.aspx into your Theme directory if you use some custom theme.

test more

mitek — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 18:56:05 GMT

oh yes

Character encoding in Harvest

mitek — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 14:05:06 GMT

Recently we found out, that Harvest 1.0 SP1/SP2 shows incorrect characters for non-latin alphabets. So graphics look like this :

or like this

The problem is in swfobject.js helper which provide data for flash-based graphics. We managed to make a fix for swfobject.js (see attach to this post) to avoid double encoding for characters. Feel free to give us feedback on this quick fix.

Provide your feedback on Upupo Soft SAAS solution here

mitek — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 13:24:11 GMT

If you have any issues, questions or suggestions about our SAAS solution - please leave it here.

Updated CS Media Manager

x893 — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 12:55:24 GMT

This is an updated version of CS Media Manager.

Changes we made:

support for CS 2008.5 SP1/SP2
work on Windows XP, Windows 2003

You can download original version from nb development site.

Microsoft Office Labs vision 2019 (montage + video)

mitek — Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:35:11 GMT

I’ve been able to get my hands on the new “2019″ video in its full glory. This 5-minute long spectacle is available separately below. Some of the new technologies demoed including a “transparent wall” between two classrooms around the world, animated drawings, realtime conversation translations, surface displays, electronic boarding cards, transparent displays, mini projectors among many others. The electronic newspaper is definitely my favorite.

Virtual communities through Community Server Groups

mitek — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:13:28 GMT

If you're a little bit familiar with Community Server 2008 and newer versions you might be wandering is it possible to define several CS Groups and give each of them separate URL such as http://en.company.com or http://de.company.com.

Now let's be clear about Group and Hub – since name Group was confusing, because there are groups of blogs or media galleries as well, you can also think about groups of users, so Telligent decided to introduce this new term Hub. And under the cover CS refer to this entity only as Hub. So am I.

Since each hub has almost everything you need for mini community (blog, forum, media gallery, etc.) then it could be great to have it exactly like mini-communities with different URLs and same CS database. This could be useful for intranet/internet community versions, multi-language site, etc.

The short answer – yes, it's possible and this functionality supported with Community Server 2008.5 together with our product Upupo Media Server.

Quick steps:

Install Upupo Media Server
Get SiteUrls_Override.config (attached), Search and Replace 'App=main' with 'App=Your_Hub_Name'
Optional. Your new registered site users will be added to your group automatically (group auto join module).

Edit (create) CommunityServer_override.config, and add module for hub

</Override>

Also append this at the end of your CommunityServer_override.config

That's it now when you open your site http://youhost.com/ you'll see first hub page, when you navigate to /blogs – hub blogs, /forums – group forum, etc.

Though your member-related pages will work as usual

Now the long answer.

The point where you start – take a look at SitUrls.config and SiteUrls_override.config and try to find a way to override root (common) nodes and set it to group(hub) urls. What if we replace all location with urls pointed to some specific group(hub)?

Let's see, first we define location

then some url

Well, the problem is that there is no place in url format where we could set a hub name.

But <location> is being processed because there is class CSLocation in CS. What if we create our custom location where we can process some custom parameter (hub name) using url format.

Then we could use urls like this, where 'MiniSite' is a hub name:

So our custom location provider for urls could be like this:

public class RootHubLocation : CSLocation

{

public RootHubLocation(string path, string physicalPath, string themeDirectory, bool exclude, string applicationType)

: base(path, physicalPath, themeDirectory, exclude, applicationType)

{

}

public override string GetReWrittenUrl(ReWrittenUrl url, string path, string queryString)

{

// string app = "main";

string app = this.NamedValue(url, "app");

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(app))

return base.GetReWrittenUrl(url, path, queryString);

else

{

CSContext csContext = CSContext.Current;

ThemePage tp = new ThemePage();

HubsContext context = ((HubsContext)csContext.ApplicationContexts[CommunityServer.Components.ApplicationType.Hub]);

if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(context.HubTheme))

context.HubTheme = CommunityServer.Hubs.Components.Hubs.GetHub(app, true, true).Theme;

if (context.HubTheme != null) tp.Name = context.HubTheme;

return url.GetReWrittenUrl(path, queryString, tp);

}

private Regex _regex = null;

public string NamedValue(ReWrittenUrl url, string name)

{

string pat = @"([^\r\n]*\?App=)(?<app>[\w\.-]+)";

_regex = new Regex(pat, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.Compiled);

string res = _regex.Match(url.Path).Groups[name].Value;

return res;

}

Now you'll need to create your SiteUrls_override.config (take a look at the example attached) and replace App=main to App=Some_Hub_Name

As you can see you can add some specific hub sub-apps from other hubs (with different ?App=Another_Hub_Name)

So, we can process our urls in a specific way and now every single url will route user to hub and it's sub-applications.

But what about new registered users on our site? They can't add any content inside hub (and all our community is just one hub now) until user is a member of this hub.

So let's make any user who registered auto join our main hub. For this we need to create module, something like this:

/// <summary>

/// CSModule to auto create a user gallery when a user registers.

/// </summary>

public class AutoJoinHub : ICSModule

{

public void Init(CSApplication csa, XmlNode node)

{

csa.PostUserUpdate += csa_PostUserUpdate;

}

private static void csa_PostUserUpdate(User user, CSEventArgs e)

{

if (user == null || e.State != ObjectState.Create) return;

HubsContext hubcontext = ((HubsContext)CSContext.Current.ApplicationContexts[CommunityServer.Components.ApplicationType.Hub]);

Hub hub = hubcontext.CurrentHub;

if ( hub == null || (!hub.IsPublic && !hub.IsCommunityAggregated) || hub.IsMember(user, SectionMembershipType.Manager | SectionMembershipType.Member | SectionMembershipType.Owner))

return;

if (hub.MembershipIsOpen)

{

// membership is open so the user can be added as a member immediately

SectionMembership sm = new SectionMembership();

sm.ApplicationType = ApplicationType.Hub;

sm.UserID = user.UserID;

sm.SectionID = hub.SectionID;

sm.MembershipType = SectionMembershipType.Member;

sm.DateAdded = DateTime.Now;

SectionMemberships.Add(sm);

}

Basically that's it, just don't forget to add at the end of your CommunityServer_override.config

Now you can create some iis instance, add custom dns header name to it and assign to CS with changes we just described.

Next mini-community could another iis instance configured the same way, but with different "App=You_Hub_Name2" in config file.

Happy hacking!

Bug in CFS with large files download

x893 — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:16:35 GMT

This bug appeared to us since our product can deal with really big files inside Community Server. So where it happens? It happens when you have big files, something like 100+ Mb and when you store them on the network storage.

See technical details and fix for this issue below.

It's all about Response buffer. Telligent use custom code to download from network storage (for files located on CS instance itself they use Response.TransmitFile() and it work just fine).

FileSystemFileStorageProvider.cs

using (Stream s = new FileStream(file.FullLocalPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { byte[] buffer = new byte[64 * 1024]; int read; while ((read = s.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0) { if (!context.Response.IsClientConnected) break; context.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, read); } context.Response.OutputStream.Flush(); context.Response.Flush(); context.Response.Close(); s.Close(); }

How to resolve:

1. Replace code mentioned above in source file (SDK version) and rebuild.

using (Stream s = new FileStream(file.FullLocalPath, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)) { context.Response.Buffer = false; context.Response.BufferOutput = false; try { byte[] buffer = new byte[64 * 1024]; int read; while ((read = s.Read(buffer, 0, buffer.Length)) > 0) { if (!context.Response.IsClientConnected) break; context.Response.OutputStream.Write(buffer, 0, read); context.Response.OutputStream.Flush(); } } catch (HttpException) { } catch (Exception ex) { new CSException(CSExceptionType.UnknownError, "FileSystemFileStorageFile", ex).Log(); } context.Response.Flush(); context.Response.Close(); s.Close(); }

2. Now we need to create our own HttpHandler from FileSystemFileStorageHttpHandler class and change web.config httpHandlers section, so CS work with our handler rather than default from Telligent.

web.config (original)
<add verb="GET" path="cfs-filesystemfile.ashx" type="CommunityServer.Components.FileSystemFileStorageHttpHandler, CommunityServer.Components" />to
<add verb="GET" path="cfs-filesystemfile.ashx" type="Upupo.Media.FileSystemFileStorageHttpHandler, Upupo.Media" />

3. Completely remove (or comment) line

<add verb="GET" path="cfs-filesystemfile.ashx" type="CommunityServer.Components.FileSystemFileStorageHttpHandler, CommunityServer.Components" />

in web.config and copy file cfs-filesystemfile.ashx (attached) to root of web site.

Have a nice hacking!

By the way, this bug already fixed on our products

Upupo Uploader

ako — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:49:01 GMT

Upupo Uploader 4.8.5.124.

Upupo Uploader is a client-side application intended to provide reliable, restartable, fault-tolerant, scalable way to convert and upload videos onto Community Sever via Upupo Upload Server.

Requirements and limitations:

UUS can be used with version of CS 2008.5 SP1 or higher

CS instance must be installed in the root of IIS Web Site.

Installation:

Download .msi package, run it, and follow instructions.

Upupo Upload Server

ako — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:49:01 GMT

Upupo Upload Server 4.8.5.124 for Community Server.

Upupo Upload Server (UUS) is file upload management service for Community Server Media and Upupo Media applications.

Requirements and limitations:

UUS can be used with version of Community Server 2008.5 SP1

CS instance must be installed in the root of IIS Web Site.

Installation:

Download .msi package, run it, and follow instructions. Note: At lease trial license is required to run UUS. Please contact us to get one.

Upupo Media Server

ako — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 10:49:01 GMT

Upupo Media Server 4.8.5.124 for Community Server.

Upupo Media Server (UMS) is video sharing and management application widely extending the standard Community Server Media galleries.

Requirements and limitations:

UMS can be used with version of Community Server 2008.5 SP1

CS instance must be installed in the root of IIS Web Site.

Important Notes:

Upon installation of UMS the existing instance of CS will be modified as follow:

- CommunityServer.Components.dll will be updated to support Upupo Media application and provide further flexibility for Site URLs management. Note that a backup of the original CommunityServer.Components.dll will be done to fully rollback changes on UMS uninstall

- Control Panel theme will be modified to provide support and management features for Upupo Media application including support in Groups(Hubs)

Installation:

Download .msi package, run it, and follow instructions.

(UpupoMediaServer_4.8.5.124.msi)

Video Streaming with Red5 VMware image

mitek — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:07:21 GMT

This is a vmware image of OS with red5 for distributed video sharing with Upupo Media Server. Root password is 'upupo'.