I love the new widgets feature that is in Groups!! On the few blog themes I've checked, I didn't see the ability to customize widgets in blogs as you can in groups. Will this be a feature that will show up in a later build prior to release? Also, where in the world are the widgets defined in...

I see there are widgets for Forums, Blogs and Groups applications, but what about the default home page? Can't I add a widget there? If this is not an out of the box functionality, will I be able to customize my homepage and the Sidebar configurations (in control panel) to be able to add widgets...

So I saw that SpringWidgets, WidgetBox Widgets, and Google Gadgets could be included in sidebars now. Neat idea! Not sure how much I'll take advantage of this, but I may have to even look into disabling the addition of these external ones. Will it be easy to remove these if necessary? What would...

Is there a way to add widgets like in the sidebar, but on the welcome screen?

Hello! I would like to have a new widget to do this (in blogs): To show the "x" most recent posts To show them with their excerpt The latest post should be displayed with the entire body (FormattedBody) Example: First post Blah blah blah blah blba bla bla bla I'm HTML...

Has anyone gotten FormShield to work with CS 2008 yet? If so is there instructions some whre that already exist?

Woohoo!! I finished my widget and it is ready to download!! I have prepared a .ZIP file with all the required files and all the info to install it. Here you can download it: it's really useful for blogs! http://www.superjmn.com/media/p/4618.aspx (Contains the required files for English and...

I've just published the source code (the Visual Studio .NET 2008 solution and project) for my widget. Free to inspect it and recompile it. If you modify the widget, please, contact me before distributing it. You can download the source here: http://www.superjmn.com/media/p/4623.aspx

Hi, I was wondering how would I be able to have generic content on the home page side bar?? Please show me how am I able to display it. Thanks.

Josh Ledgard Do you mean by the end user or by the admin? if you had to pick one which would it be. Widgets Oh, goodness, I don't think our users could cope with that! No, just for the admins for now. Purpose is twofold: To be able to easily promote behaviours we want to encourage...

I'm having a tough time getting the GG widget to accept the embed code from the friendfeed gadget. Whenever I try to paste in the embed code, it comes back with " This embed code does not appear to come from Google Gadgets. It cannot be used. " Are there only certain gadgets that it will...

OK, first I like the advanced options offered with the new layout controls. Don't get me wrong, but... I come from CS 2.1, and right now I'm working on some advanced RSS configuration for the blogs. So I go to the new 2008 site to get the link, and the link isn't there, main site or...

Hi SuperJMN, are you going to make this one available as well?

Has anyone modified the 'Blog Recent Posts' widget so you could specify a single Blog to show the posts from? We would like to use Blogs to contain lists of events and if we could configure Blog widgets to display only the titles from a single Blog it would give lots of flexibility. Thanks...

Hello - I am having the strangest problem. I installed CS on a new server (2008 sp1). we have a custom widget that we've built as well. On the main control panel page i have added the custom widget and "common links" just as a test. saved them, etc. on the main page (when user logged...

We have built a custom widget - installed in the bin directory, etc. etc. etc. on the web server if I point to a TEST CS2008 database that we created on the base 2008 then did an upgrade everything works fine... I also created a new PROD CS2008 database from the CS2008sp1 installer. Point the web...

Alex - did the import/export thing. i did a compare between the 2 files. from the production db <value><![CDATA[<contentFragments> <contentFragment type="FaceToFaceHealth.CustomWidgets.CustomSearchWidget, F2FCustomWidgets" id="9e213106-4a07-4c10-b59b-82f951fdddee"...

hi, check the folloing link, http://getben.com/archive/2008/04/21/community-server-2008-how-to-implement-custom-widgets.aspx

http://dev.lostechies.com/blogs/blogger1/archive/2008/12/01/embedded-video-test.aspx Bottom right. All I see are links to view more, but the RSS feeds are missing. Any help is appreciated.

The Blog Search Form widget displays a form for searching the Weblog. This widget is not supported for group blogs. Procedure 1. Add the blog search form widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window. 3. Specify the widget properties. Style Tab...

The Common Links widget displays common or custom links. Procedure 1. Add the common links widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window. 3. Specify the widget properties. Options Tab Control Panel – Enables or disables the Control...

The Forum Post widget displays the link to a specific forum post. Procedure 1. Add the forum post widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window. 3. Specify the post ID to which you want to create the link. 4. Click Save . Community Server applies...

The Generic Content widget allows you to customize a widget that contains any content you specify, including links to images and videos. Procedure 1. Add the generic content widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window. 3. Specify your widget...

The Google Gadget widget allows you to display a Google gadget, such as a clock, map, or Google search form on your page. Procedure 1. Add the Google Gadget widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window. 3. Specify the widget properties. ...

The Group Activity List widget displays a list of recent activity related to the current group. This activity includes blogging activity, membership activity, and so on. Procedure 1. Add the group activity list widget to your theme. 2. Click Configure to display the configuration modal window...