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Store timestamps in UTC time

mstaszew — Tue, 12 Mar 2013 16:36:45 GMT

We're on Telligent 7.X

I'm using the REST API and all timestamps are being returned in the server's local time. Using the Info endpoint I can get the timezone info of the server in UTC format which does not incorporate daylight savings time into the UTC offset. This results in a difficult situation to convert timestamps into the user's local time. If all timestamps would use the universal format conversion would be effortless. Alternatively if the info endpoint would introduce a new property that returns the correct GMT offset (reflecting DST) that would also be sufficient.

Various REST enhancements

mstaszew — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:57:02 GMT

Hi there, I have the following requests for the REST API. I think they are all new features, but if some are currently in place please clue me in! If you'd prefer I break these out into one per message I can do that as well.

1. Forum threads - Ability to OR ThreadStatus values in ForumThreadQueryType when retrieving threads. The retrieve unanswered questions endpoint only returns those having a status of Unanswered, but I'd like to retrieve those having Unanswered and AnsweredNotVerified in one call. The current workaround of making two calls and merging the lists is inefficient and supporting paged results is a nightmare.

2. Forum threads - Ability to mark all threads as read

3. Forum replies - Ability to retrieve only those replies that are answers to a thread.

4. Forum replies - Ability to return replies in the default viewing order of the website where answers appear at the top followed by all replies in their post order.

5. Forum - Ability to email subscribe to a forum

Thanks,

Michael

Download wiki as document

Robert Miller — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:19:54 GMT

Our users love the wikis, with one exception: printing. The idea of printing a wiki page-by-page can be a daunting task. If it were possible to download or view a wiki as a PDF or single HTML page that would permit them to easily create print-outs or redistribute a static copy of the wiki to students, parents, or anyone requiring a self-contained copy.

What do you want to see at The Big Social this fall?

Jenn Emerson — Tue, 24 May 2011 19:35:14 GMT

The Big Social committee is putting together its soon-to-be-not-so-top-secret featured topics and presenters list. Who do you want to see? What do you want to learn at The Big Social?

Point system and ranks... missing features

Daryll — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 18:27:48 GMT

Hey all,

I am a relatively new user of the Telligent admin panel, so please do point me in the right direction if I'm missing something.

You have two features that don't seem to be connectable or related in any way to each other having to do with user recognition. These two things are the point earning system, and the rank system. Maybe you already have this on a list for the future - I know this version of the software is fairly new so there are probably some improvements already in the works. Here is my basic problem:

You have this highly configurable "point earning" system. You can get points for posts, replies, correct answers, friending someone.... a whole bunch of stuff. The point values are adjustable in the admin panel. Good stuff. Great stuff even.

Then, you have this not-so-configurable "ranking" system, in which you can configure and name pre-set ranks for achieving certain numbers of posts.

Why are these two features not connected? As it stands, there is no logical reason to have both features enabled unless they are related to each other.

In my perfect world, I would deploy the following things to make this feature a lot more useful than it is:

change the ranking system so that ranks are based on the amount of POINTS someone has earned, not the amount of posts they've made.
A "leaderboard" that can display user rankings in few different areas. The community homepage (or root group if you will) would have one that lists the top 10 users community-wide. Each individual group would have one that lists the top users in that group. Each forum component or wiki component would also have a leaderboard that only tabulates points earned in that particular application.

Again, I'm only just getting my feet wet with the admin features, so maybe I'm missing something that I shouldn't be - but if I'm not - this is a critical disconnect between a fairly rich point-earning system and a ranking feature that really ought to be directly related to the point earning system.

Thanks,

Daryll

Suggestion: EnableFileDateVersioning for page header in theme.config

Anders Vindberg — Thu, 24 Feb 2011 07:59:07 GMT

It would be useful for proxy caching features to be able to add the EnableFileDateVersioning timestamp as a replacement key to css references in the theme.config file PageHeader area.

This is a feature not available in TC 5.5, and don't believe it has been added to TC 5.6.

Best,
Anders Vindberg

Separation of administration and themes

Anders Vindberg — Thu, 06 Jan 2011 09:04:47 GMT

In recent versions of TC I see that more and more content and configuration is moving into the themes area. This creates unnecessary complexity when customizing a new theme (copied from fiji). In addition, it creates confusion when handling administrative tasks; should I goto the Controlpanel, or can it only be moderated/configured at the frontend!?

Has this been considered in version 6.0?

I only want the best for TC!

Best,
Anders

cara beriklan di internet

anasyus — Thu, 13 Jan 2011 19:02:32 GMT

bagaimana cara beriklan di internet yang tepat?

ActivityMessageListAjax.asmx.cs hardcoded markup & avatar size

Anders Vindberg — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:08:52 GMT

A suggestion to the Activity Message List.

I believe you are already aware of this, please for future releases move the hardcoded markup and avatar definition out of the code behind in the ActivityMessageListAjax.asmx.cs file.

We can't find a way to resize the avatars other than messing with the codebehind which is bad bad practice.

Thanks!

choosing the right cms

FWCL — Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:45:51 GMT

Hi,

Can anyone help me choosing the right CMS for our company ? I got here from the graffiti cms webpage. Did anyone tested both and can share some experience with ? I'm talking about telligent community and graffiti cms.

Appreciate any suggestions,

Suggestion: Move Anonymous.gif into theme

Anders Vindberg — Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:26:05 GMT

Hi all I have a small suggestion.

The default avatar is located in the /utility/anonymous.gif and hardcoded to its url and extension (gif file) several placed in the code. I would like to suggest this be moved into the default theme for better seperation of code when customizing TC.

Thanks.
Anders

TC 5.6 release - User-to-user messaging removed?

Anders Vindberg — Thu, 04 Nov 2010 10:02:42 GMT

According to this feature comparison: http://telligent.com/support/telligent_evolution_platform/w/documentation/feature-comparisons.aspx the "User to user messaging" has been removed?

Is this a typo? :)

Thanks,

Anders

Changing avatar dimension

Gregory — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 13:54:16 GMT

I changed the dimension of the avatar of members and groups. But it's still displayed as small as before.

i've changed that in the default Group settings and the member settings. After that i uploaded a new avatar with bigger size.

The avatar changed but i still have the same size (90x90)

What settings should i change for bigger avatars?

Greetz

Greg

iPhone Ipad application for Telligent Community

FrankDirks — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 20:00:37 GMT

Hello, I was wondering if anyone is planning to build an Ipad or Iphone application especially for Telligent Community? I myself are interested in it, but are not able to do that. Thx Frank

What is PubSubHubbub and why should I use it?

Treasure Coast News — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 00:12:39 GMT

PubSubHubbub is a simple, open, server-to-server Publisher and Subscriber Protocol as an extension to Atom and RSS feeds. The PubSub protocol serves near-instant notifications "6 seconds" via WebHook callbacks to Subscribers, Search Engines, and Social Networks in Real-time. Check out this quick video from Google engineers talking about PubSubHubbub.

Value of using "folders" within Media Galleries

Jordan Pritchard — Thu, 29 Jul 2010 08:08:29 GMT

I'd be most appreciative to hear thoughts on the value of using "folders" within Media Galleries. I currently work in Knowledge Management at US Africa Command and one of the things we try to steer people away from is the old Explorer-style storage of files in folders nested within folders. We've tried to push using a standardized set of tags instead that help expose the data to the search engine, but it's kind of like herding cats, if that's not too military of a metaphor.

People simply don't want to do that, whether it be through genuine work overload or habit.

I get asked a lot of the time why it's important to move away from using folders and even though I always repeat the same line, I think to the end users it sounds like a pointless culture shift.

Ideas?

Deleting a post

Jordan Pritchard — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 05:51:53 GMT

I found this process a bit cumbersome. I think it'd be much easier if group owners could simply click an "X" by the post, be asked to verify if they want to delete the post, then the post recursively deletes from all data streams. It's messy when you delete a post but you still see references to it in other places.

Ability to Search a User's Bio

Navy#1 — Fri, 02 Apr 2010 17:08:12 GMT

This would be nice to have feature.

wiki - most popular pages

Daniel Rae — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:15:50 GMT

I think it'd be great if Wiki pages counted page views, like blog posts do. It'd be nice to have a widget that showed the most read wiki articles, as these would be the ones people would read the most.

Ability to change a post author in control panel

Daniel Rae — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 14:59:21 GMT

It's easy to do in Wordpress, but in Community Server, I have to edit SQL to change the author of a post. Admittedly, I've not used TC 5 extensively yet, I still have 2008.5 SP2, but I've not read that this feature has been implemented, even though it sounds easy enough to achieve.

It means that admins could write blog posts for others who either aren't technically skilled enough, or simply don't have the time. Impesonation goes some way to helping, but if you prefer to use a blog application like Live Writer, you can't impersonate.

Thanks!

New CSApplication event: PreUserProfileRequested

Robert Miller — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:27:26 GMT

It would be very useful if the Evolution platform had an event that was triggered whenever a user requested another user's profile. As a school district, we have parent, student, and staff profiles within Telligent Community and we do not always want to allow user profile requests. For example, we only allow student profiles to be viewed by staff, whereas staff can view all user profiles.

We have worked around the shortcoming by adding code directly to the ~/Themes/generic/User/userprofile.aspx page that redirects to an error message if the profile request is not allowed; however, it would be much cleaner if this code was added as a CSModule attached to an appropriate CSApplication event.

If this event existed, it would be wonderful if the event's EventArgs object could contain:

the User object belonging to the requested Profile or, at minimum, the user's UserId or Username.
the context (membership group) where the request originated from, if available.

User Status in API?

andrewdevlin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 15:29:49 GMT

I can't find the call to pull a user's "status" in Enterprise 2.0. Does it exist?

--andrew

How to customize main menu navigation?

zubairdotnet — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 14:01:19 GMT

Hi,

I'm a TE newbie and I have seen the intro video but no where in the video does he say that I can put links to Wiki pages or external links or any link for that matter in the Main menu without having to create a group. I know TE/TC are group driven but there must be a way to get a custom navigation much like what Telligent has up there (Products > | Services | Support | Res....)

I'm pretty sure some (in)telligent guy out there knows how to do it, so please reply as soon as you can.

Thanks

-Zubair

Widget with link to remote document

Alexey — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:24:57 GMT

Hi,

I'm tring to create simple widget with link to remote document:

<%@ Control Language="C#" AutoEventWireup="true" %>

<%@ Import Namespace="System.Net"%>

<%@ Import Namespace="System.IO"%>

protected void LinkButton1_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)

{

string username = "UserName";

string userpassword = "Pass";

string domain = "Domain";

NetworkCredential networkCredential = new NetworkCredential(username, userpassword, domain);

WebClient webClient = new WebClient();

webClient.Credentials = networkCredential;

Byte[] buffer = webClient.DownloadData("http://localhost/Docs/Documents/1.jpg");

MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(buffer);

Response.Clear();

Response.ContentType = "application/octet-stream";

Response.AddHeader("Content-Disposition", "attachment; filename=" + "1.jpg");

memoryStream.WriteTo(Response.OutputStream);

Response.End();

}

</script>

<asp:LinkButton ID="LinkButton1" runat="server" onclick="LinkButton1_Click">LinkButton</asp:LinkButton>

But filesize is incorrect (remote filesize: 22kb ,when downloaded from widget: 40kb). This problem didn't depend on file.

What's wrong?

Thanks

Atom feeds for Blogs does not contain the blog post ID

reddysampathk — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:24:12 GMT

Hi,

We have a need to access the blog post ID from the ATOM feeds of Telligent Enterprise group blog ATOM feed. We are able to access the ATOM feed by using the blog URL - http://localhost/telligent/sample_group/my_test_private_group/b/weblog/atom.aspx, however we are not able to find the post ID of individual blog posts within the feed.

There is an "<id>" field as per the ATOM specification which would contain the ID of the entry. In the above Telligent ATOM feed URL, we are observing that the "<id>" tag contains the URL to the blost post instead of the blog post ID. There is another tag "<link>" which also contains the same URL as the one thats present in "<id>" tag.

Is there a configuration change that can be made in Telligent so that it includes blog post ID in the "<id>" field instead of URL to the post? Or is there any other configuration that can be changed to have blog post IDs sent in ATOM feeds?

Appreciate any suggestions/thoughts. Thanks.