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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....

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: ...

We recommend using forms authentication if you are configuring Telligent Evolution in an environment where members of the community are already authenticating against an existing application that uses Microsoft ASP.NET. Your members can then access your Telligent Evolution community without explicitly...

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...

Groups define the areas of interest for your community and allow you to control the type of content and the access to that content for community members. We provide many tools for you to help you understand how best to structure your community. You can define a group hierarchy with any number of groups...

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...

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...

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...

Forums enable interactive collaboration among members of your community. We support two different types of forum threads: Discussions (posts with replies) Q&A (question posts with replies, suggested answers, or verified answers) Each forum can include both thread types (with a default...

When you set up your community built on the Telligent Evolution platform, you need to ensure that its structure matches the needs of the members and can provide you with the information you need to understand usage and performance. Before you walk through these steps to configure your community, you...

Forum threads that are of the discussion thread type encourage community members to post content which isn't necessarily seeking a definitive answer, but instead allows for many contributions. A discussion thread is easily identifiable in any forum list without an icon. Read more about how...

Forum threads that are of the question and answer (Q&A) type are very useful for the portion of your community providing support to community members who have questions. We make it easy to know whether or not questions have been answered. A Q&A thread can be in one of three states: ...

By default anonymous, not-logged in users cannot post anything within your community. To allow anonymous posting: Navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > System Administration > Forum Administration > Configuration > Global Forum Settings > General . To allow anonymous...

By default, users who have access to edit forum posts (typically just moderators) do not have to enter notes when they edit a post and edit notes are not displayed on the post. Also, anyone who creates a forum post can edit his/her post at any time. To change these settings: Navigate to Control...

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...

Telligent Evolution supports moderation for forum posts and forum tags. The Posts page contains the list of posts to moderate and moderation statistics.Navigate to Control Panel Dashboard > Forums Moderation . In this Article Moderate forum posts Moderation statistics Related information Moderate...

Use the following procedures to ensure that all posts and tags are approved before they are published to a forum. You can specify a global setting so that all users who do not have a moderator or administrative role are moderated regardless of the setting at the individual member level. You can set...

Telligent Evolution lists all of the forum posts that require moderation on the Forums to Moderate page.You can enable the moderation notification setting so that you do not have to periodically check the page for posts requiring moderation. Telligent Evolution notifies you via email when posts are queued...

Tags are one of the means you can use to organize information and help users find information on your Web site. You can allow users to add tags when they publish content or to content published by other users, or you can retain control over how tags are used. You can control forum tags. Disable...

As you build your Web site, you may want to separate a post from a tag. There could be many reasons to do this: For example, you might determine that a tag is misleading for the post content. Telligent Evolution gives you the option of separating a single post or multiple posts from a tag without deleting...