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In this Customization Guide , we cover everything that you need to know to customize your community built on the Telligent Evolution platform. New in Telligent Evolution 5.6: Capitalization in URLs is standardized in CSS in this release. Since search engines can count multiple URLs (i.e....

New in Telligent Evolution 5.6: <H1> tags are used on Group and People tabs (in Telligent Enterprise) to aid SEO. The Telligent Evolution platform includes built-in tools to allow you to customize the user interface of an existing theme to meet the unique needs of your community without any need...

In this Article Types of themes and how to set the default theme Change the site-wide theme Change the default group theme Change the theme for a single group Change the default blog theme Change the theme for a single blog Theme components Header, footer and content widgets Standard markup Cascading...

We strongly recommended that you use an existing theme and customize it using the options exposed through the site if at all possible. This provides the easiest upgrade path as we continue to evolve our products. A new physical theme should only be considered if any of the following must be customized...

We support four application types: Name Description Typical uses Blogs Short name for weblog. Location for an author or more than one author to write commentary on a specific topic or area of expertise. Readers of the content can typically comment on the content. Personal...

In addition to the site-wide permissions , the system administrator can assign permissions to the user roles at the application level, for all applications at the site root and then again for individual applications. Telligent Evolution can be configured to handle membership in one of two ways: ...

Telligent Evolution uses templates to send system emails or notifications to community users about ongoing activity in Telligent Evolution, such as friendship requests and approvals, new accounts, password requests and changes and more. The email templates are contained in the [Telligent Evolution...

New in Telligent Evolution 5.5: For the first time, a site, group, or blog owner can add additional content pages from the Control Panel to URLs that he/she defines. These pages can be managed from the Control Panel and can be customized to contain any widget. The content pages also display in search...

In Telligent Evolution 5.5, the capability to reorder applications on the Applications page was removed. The Applications page is accessible through the group editing functionality. The Applications page allows you to access the applications that have been configured for the group so you can edit...

The Permissions page is accessible through the group edit functionality. The page allows you to control the group user roles and assign privileges to the roles. You can modify the default permissions for the default roles; but we recommend that instead of changing the default permissions, you customize...

Roles and permissions determine the content users can see and the kinds of tasks they are allowed to perform within your Telligent Evolution community. A role is, at its simplest, a group of permissions, customizable to your specific community. Each role can also have a role icon associated with it so...

Permissions can be granted to site-wide and group roles to control access to each area of the community. This document describes what each permission, if granted to a role, allows anyone in that role to do. Permissions are grouped into six categories: Site Group Blog Forum Media Gallery...

Word-wheel search boxes are often referred to as "search as you type" boxes. The search occurs against the title and description of the applications through which the user is searching. Word-wheel style searches are now available on the following browse widgets: Blog - browse...

Telligent Evolution requires the Modify permission for either the Network Service account (Windows Server, Windows Vista) or the ASP.NET account (Windows XP) on the following folders. Blogs Forums\storage filestorage Site files If the Modify permission is not granted, you will see...

New in Telligent Evolution 5.5: Blog Administration - Enable Anonymous Email Subscriptions options and descriptions are renamed. Manage Application pages now all have paging to help with large sites. Membership Administration - Edit User page now has custom fields. Users are warned that...

In the right sidebar of the Control Panel, we've included an announcement area that displays the latest blog posts from our product support community, providing you with up-to-date information on the happenings with Telligent products and services. You can change this section to include custom...

The group functionality helps you organize your Web site's content and enhance communication between the members of your community. In this Article Parent/child group architecture Support for multiple instances of applications Topic-driven navigation architecture Administrative functions separated...

Blogs (also called weblogs) are designed to include commentary on a specific topic or an area of expertise. You can create a blog within any existing group or at your site root and can even configure Telligent Evolution to automatically create blogs for each new community member account created . ...

Telligent's Evolution platform provides end users with multiple tools for publishing and consuming content. One of the most popular publishing tools is Telligent's email integration which also enables publishing to a blog though email. This article details the requirements , such as Telligent's...

The About page is where you enter publicly viewed information about your blog. Navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > My Blogs > [blog name] > Configure > Blog Setup > About . Enable or disable the Publish the About You page option. If you enable the option...

The Search Engine Optimization page allows you to add a site description as well as keywords that make your blog discoverable by search engines and users. To set the search engine optimization properties: From your Group home page, click the Blogs tab. The blog list displays. If multiple...

The Telligent Evolution platform enables users to blog on Telligent Community or Telligent Enterprise using Windows Live Writer. The following steps walk you through the process of configuring Live Writer with either Telligent Community or Telligent Enterprise. If using Windows Live Writer with a community...

Telligent Evolution does not directly support features such as read more or tags when blogging with Windows Live Writer. However, users can manually enter tags into the body of the post by using the following syntax: [tags: WLW, Evolution] Related information Blogging with Windows Live Writer

Deleting a blog post also deletes all comments made on the post. When you delete a blog, you cannot recover it. So use this functionality with caution. You can delete a blog post if you meet at least one of the following criteria: You are the author of the blog . The author of a blog can delete...

You can edit any blog post that you have created, regardless of whether or not the post has been published to the site. In this Article Edit an existing blog post Edit a draft blog post Edit an existing blog post Click the name of the blog post in the Blog list. Click Edit this post when...