Platform Topics/Features

This section contains documentation on the following topics:

Abuse

• Description of the Abuse service from a development perspective.

Activity Stream

• The Activity Stream lets you log, group, and render activity related to actions taken by site members.

Authentication: OAuth

• Creating an OAuth provider. This contains a description of the Telligent Evolution OAuth Service, including:
  • How to configure Telligent Evolution for OAuth client applications
  • How to create an Evolution OAuth app

Cache

• Cache information, including examples and demonstrations.

Centralized file storage (CFS)

Information about the new Telligent Evolution Centralized File Storage (CFS) service, including:

• Changes from the previous release
• How to: Secure your filestorage folder
• How to: Use files stored in CFS file stores

Comment service

• Description of the Comments service from a development perspective.
• Email information, including:
  • Email Digest
  • Email services
  • Email template how-tos

Content: Content, Applications, and Containers

• Understand how Content, Applications, and Containers are used in the platform.

Email

Includes the following information:

• Customizing an Email Digest template, select the data to be imported, change when digest emails are sent, and troubleshooting.
• The services that make up the Email service, including email providers.
• Customizing Email templates, adding images and descriptions, extending IEmailTemplateExtension, and email template descriptions.

Events

How developers can plug into to extend behaviors or alter content.

• Events, including examples and demonstrations.

Jobs

Jobs are units of work that are executed in the background at user-defined intervals.

• Job information including:
  • Creating a new job for Job Scheduler
  • Install the Job Scheduler
  • Telligent Tasks Configuration

Like service

The Like service offers developers the ability to allow members of the site to "like" user-generated content.

• Description of the Likes service from a development perspective.

Mentions service

The Mentions service offers developers the ability to allow members of the site to mention content within user-generated content.

Permissions

While Permissions is not an extensibility point the Telligent Evolution platform offers APIs for viewing and managing permissions.

Plugins

Plugins are used to interact with Telligent Evolution platform events, the in-process API, and services.

• Plugins
• Plugin Lifecycle

Ratings

The rating service offers developers the ability to allow members of the site to rate user-generated content.

• Ratings

Score service

This service is responsible for calculating scores for content items.

• Predefined Core Metrics that can be used in custom scores.

Search

Search is used by users to find content on the site and in many of the widget configuration and Control Panel pages. You can add custom content types in Telligent Evolution 7.0.

• Creating a new search provider
• Custom facets
• Recommended content
• Search filters and facets, including:
  
  • Search Facets
  • Supported search syntax
• Search indexing
  • search fields by type

Shared Membership

• Information about when to use Shared Membership, and creating or using an existing Membership Store.

Tags

The tag service offers developers the ability to allow members of the site to tag user-generated content.

• Tags

Upgrade: Themes

If you are upgrading from Telligent Evolution 5.6 to Telligent Evolution 7.0, Telligent offers the Migrate 5.x Themes Utility to help move your theme to the new release.

User interface

• Development and topical information about the Telligent Evolution user interface components, including:
  • Themes:
    • Automating Theme Changes
    • Components of a Theme
    • Page, Header, and Footer Layouts
    • Page, Header, and Footer Versions and Inheritance
    • Theme Types
    • Theme Version Control
  • Widgets:
    • Getting Started with Widgets:
      • Factory default widgets
      • Using Custom Ajax Endpoints
      • Using dynamic configuration
        • Basic dynamic configuration syntax
        • Dynamic configuration scoped properties
        • Platform Property Control Types:
          • Blog Selection Custom Control
          • Checkbox List String Control
          • Custom Navigation Custom Control
          • Email String Control
          • Forum Selection Custom Control
          • Group or Application Selection Custom Control
          • Group Selection Custom Control
          • Media Gallery Selection Custom Control
          • Property Visibility Select Box Control
          • Rich Editor HTML Control
          • Sortable List Custom Control
          • Tokenized String Control
          • User File URL Control
          • User Profile Field Selection Custom Control
          • User Profile Group Int Control
          • Wiki Selection Custom Control
      • Using the Widget Studio
        • Authoring Widgets
        • Managing Widgets
      • Using Velocity
        • Basic Velocity syntax
        • Tips/Tricks
      • Widget contexts
    • Widget Best Practices
      • Accessing the QueryString
      • Javascript and Ajax
    • Widget How-Tos
      • Adding 7.x Features to Existing Widgets
      • Creating factory default widgets
      • Creating new contexts
      • Creating new widget extensions
      • Widget Import Adjustments
      • Widget version control