Hi.
I've just installed CS2007, and I'm frustrated at finding how to change things. I am new to programming, but the directions I'm reading aren't helping.
I want to change the sidebar. My copy of "Professional Community Server" says to edit default.aspx located at the root. I found this to be an empty folder. Did this change from 2.1 to 3.0? How do I change it now? Is this merely my lack of knowledge, or is there a more up to date guide, so that I don't waste hours?
Also, I'd love to work on the navigation bar, but the indicated file in skins is something I can't find.
Thanks for any help.
Steven
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Steven,
Sidebar is found in themes/default/common directory. home.aspx is the file you will edit. Hope that helps point ya in the right direction!
Sincerely,
Tom
Tom,
I greatly appreciate your prompt response.
I am still looking forward to a member of the Telligent team to explain where information like this can be found, rather than having to hunt or rely on other users.
Thanks,
Not a problem. Unfortunately I'm not sure of the best place to point you for such information aside from a lot of trial and error and the forums here. I believe they are putting together a knowledge base on here where people can look things up but I'm not sure how far along it is but I believe some of it can be found http://docs.communityserver.org/. With me it was one of those things where I asked a ton of questions and bugged people often before I finally "got it" so to speak. If you have any questions don't hesitate to contact me. I am no expert but might be able to get you in touch with someone who can help you if I cannot.
Thanks. I'm still in a bit of a shock over how little information about the architecture is available.
The book is written to sound as if CS2007 is out; but the changes aren't there. Oh, well.
Now that I've located home.aspx , do I remove items by commenting them out?
I hope I'm not bugging you; but could you tell me the location of the navigation bar, so I can alter the links?
Thanks
You are not bothering me at all and if at times it takes me a while to respond it simply means I got caught up doing something so always feel free to shoot me an email. You can comment out items or you can simply delete them. What are you looking to remove?
stevennestler:I hope I'm not bugging you; but could you tell me the location of the navigation bar, so I can alter the links?
Forgot to answer part two of your question. The navigation bar links are found in "siteurls.config"
Again, many thanks!
stevennestler: Again, many thanks!Steven
Now note if you are adding things to the navigation bar really the only things you can add are external links. In order to add new pages to your site and have them reflected in the navigatio bar you have to do a little bit more. Just let me know and I can help you either way.
-Tom
Tommyweather: stevennestler: Again, many thanks!Steven Now note if you are adding things to the navigation bar really the only things you can add are external links. In order to add new pages to your site and have them reflected in the navigatio bar you have to do a little bit more. Just let me know and I can help you either way.-Tom
Tom, since you mention it, I was actually looking to create an internal link, for such things as an "about us," page. Wow, this ain't easy!
Also, my next need is to extend the user registration form, to add more fields. Can you tell me where that's located?
I appreciate your help, and hope to return the favor some day, when I know what the hell I'm doing!
Haha... no problem. I have asked so many questions of people it is crazy. If you don't believe me as the Telligent CS support guy "TheWizard". I think he still regrets giving me his MSN messenger ID. Thanksfully through his patience he taught me a thing or two about a thing or two.
It sounds like the" about us" page is going to be a page that doesn't change all that much. (aka a page that isn't going to have a list of recent blog or forum posts or something.) If so then one easy quick way to add the page is to create a new "article".
1. Go to the control panel...
2. Click the administration tab...
3. Then click system tools on the left side.
4. You will see create/edit articles. Then simply create an "article" and edit it as you wish.
5. Then go to the siteurls.config file and add the link in the navigation list. You can add the url to this article page as an external link in the following format: (obviously the url will depend on your site and the name of the article you create)
<link name="aboutus" navigateUrl="http://www.yourdomain.com/content/yourarticlename.aspx/" text="About Us" />
6. "Touch" your web.config file to restart your website and the page option will now appear in the navigation bar.
If you are looking to add a page that is more involved that has more dynamic content... here is something I threw together.
http://chumlyworldnews.com/blogs/twxztips/archive/2007/04/23/add-a-page-to-cs2007.aspx
As far as the extra options in the user registration form that is a bit beyond my current level of compehension as I've simply never tried to add anything to it. It would take a good bit of trial and error on my part so I'm not sure how much immediate help I could be though I may be able to toy around tonight with it as I think it would be helpful to know how to do it. Actually now that I think about it there are some neat options I'd like to add in people's profiles where they can select who their favorite team is, etc... (i have a college football website) I know others have asked similar questions but for the life of me I don't recall the answers they got.
Your solution is much better than what I came up with. Thanks!
Do youknow how to implement the dropdown menu in the nav bar?
Regards,
stevennestler: Tom,Your solution is much better than what I came up with. Thanks! Do youknow how to implement the dropdown menu in the nav bar?Regards,Steven
That is a bit out of my realm of knowledge right now I'm sorry to say. Telligent's Ben Tiedt would probably be a good person to ask though. Sorry I couldn't be of more help
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