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Ben, Your Chameleon series was very informative and helpful, but I was wondering if it would be possible for users to define specific content - like widgets - for sections of their theme. The only way this could be done in CS 2.x (at least that I know) was to copy a blog theme and then edit the skin...

The problem with the existing Weather.com modules are that they don't seem like they're integrated as part of the site. The reason I asked for a Weather module is so that it gives us a framework on how to add other similar widgets. E.g. Currency Exchange, Stock Quotes, Word of the Day etc etc...

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...

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

Okay, I'm searching high and low and I can't seem to locate code for any of the existing widgets. I was interested in taking a look at how they were created so I could see if it was possible to create new ones of my own. Alas, I've only located the ContentFragment base classes. Could someone...

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 Im trying a widget to show the current user's pending Friendship request. This is the code Im trying. FriendshipList friendshipli = new FriendshipList (); CommunityServer.Controls. FriendshipQuery fq = new CommunityServer.Controls. FriendshipQuery (); fq.RequestorUserId = CSContext .Current...

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.

Hi, Is the source code for the group sidebar widgets available? For example, I want to change the main sidebar box that has links like "Home", "Media", "Members", Contact" etc. but I can't seem to find the source for this anywhere in the website or SDK. Am I...

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! As many of you know, I made a widget for blogs that shows the posts in a different way. It always shows the latest n posts, but I really would like that, if the user chooses a link to access the post archive, the widget would be able to know the month that is selected to show the appropiate...

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 to All, Pls any one help me to create own widgets. I tried with this.But i don't get.pls any can give the best step to create Widgets. http://getben.com/archive/2008/04/21/community-server-2008-how-to-implement-custom-widgets.aspx To complete the implementation of this widget, the...

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

I created an "Individual Blog Post" Widget group and put it into the /themes/hawaii/theme.config file, but noticed that the blog widgets for the individual blogs are fed from /themes/blogs/hawaii/theme.config. Is there a shortcut of feeding a custom/defaul blog widget from the administrative...