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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...

To stay on the upgrade path, we recommend that you do not modify widgets but instead create new widgets. This section contains the following articles: Create a configurable widget - How to create a widget that users can configure. Create a simple Twitter widget - Take what you've learned...

Reduce the administrative overhead involved with provisioning new users in your community by defining mappings between Windows security groups and Telligent Evolution platform roles. With the mappings in place, as user accounts are created from Windows (the first time they access the community), they...

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...

Avatars can be used to allow your community members to uniquely identify each other beyond the username/display name. User avatars are displayed on each user's profile, in the activity stream, and in any content that shows author or contributors (including posts, comments, replies, etc.). An avatar...

The Friendship Settings page allows you to specify friendship properties, such as default request text sent with friendship requests. To set friendship properties for your Web site: Navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > System Administration > Membership Administration > Configuration...

If your community is configured to handle registration and authentication by itself (i.e., not integrated with other applications or with Windows active directory to provide authentication), and if you make no other configuration changes, your community: Allows anyone who has an approved, registered...

The Profiles Settings page allows you to set user profile properties, such as user name display, signatures, and gender. Based on the properties you enable, users can then customize their personal profiles. To set the user profiles properties: Navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > System...

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...

In this Article Adding configurable widgets List of configurable widgets Adding configurable widgets Telligent Evolution allows you to configure its out-of-the-box widgets when you launch the Customize Mode or enter Edit Mode to customize your pages. The widget configuration functionality is located...

As a blog author, you can completely control all aspects of blog post creation; determine how your blog looks and functions, and limit who has access to read your blog posts. The articles contained in this guide walk you through these procedures in the following sections: Blog reports - View unfiltered...

A community moderator is responsible for ensuring that the content within the community is appropriate for all community members. Depending on how your administrator configured your community, you may be responsible for only one forum, for content for a single group, or for content across the entire...

When creating a new blog: Consider which group within the community it should belong and who should have access to its posts. Review the site-wide configuration options for blogs and decide which settings should be different for the blog you are creating. Create the new blog...

You can configure Telligent Evolution to alert the your community of new and updated content on your site by automatically alerting blog services and search engines when the content is published. Telligent Evolution provides two methods for doing this. In this Article Pings Trackbacks Pings ...

The browse application browse controls allow you to sort the items in the list. When you configure a browse widget , you can specify which sorting options to display, including: Application type Parent group Posts Latest posts You can sort each column by clicking on the arrow at the top...

Widgets can easily support exposing configuration options by using an alternate base class . To create a simple configurable widget, first create a basic widget , then use the following steps to add and render a configuration option. Upgrade the Base Class and expose configuration options ...

When you are in the widget editing mode, you control the border and padding properties for configurable widgets, as well as whether or not to display the widget title. The default padding and border setting is "full border (with header)," which inserts a border around all sides of the widget...

As a community administrator, some of your most important functions include creating, changing, or cloning member roles. This section contains the following topics: Changes you can make from the Configuration tab - Including avatars, profile fields, status messages, visitor tracking, and registration...

These membership settings are accessed from the Configuration tab: Avatars - General information and instructions for using avatars. Enabling/disabling status messages - Make it possible (or impossible) for users to leave status messages. Friendship settings - Determine whether a potential...

There are certain properties you can change in any configurable widget . By having the widget reference a user's group, application, or user ID, you can engage him/her more fully in the application experience. By selecting the browse search order, you specialize the results for your user audience...

New in Telligent Evolution 5.6: The Fiji theme is lightened significantly by removing bold from some font classes. New in Telligent Evolution 5.5: Telligent Evolution includes the following theme feature enhancements: In Customize mode, an administrator can save a tab just for himself/herself...

New in Telligent Evolution 5.5: Group owners (in addition to administrators) have the ability to delete a group. If you are a group owner, you can delete a group without seeking out an administrator. To do so: In the group home page, click Edit this group in the Options area. The Configure...

This article describes how to create or update a widget that supports user-configurable options. Create a New Configurable Widget Create a new class with the following: Ensure the class inherits from ExternallyImplementedConfigurableContentFragmentBase . Override GetPropertyGroups...

You can create a simple custom widget that redirects anonymous users to the welcome.aspx page and place this widget on your home page to control these users' experience. Create the AnonymousRedirect widget class Create the AnonymousRedirect widget user control Deploy the updated widget...