A couple of question

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JaffAJob Posted: Mon, Oct 22 2007 10:08 AM

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Hi,

 I'm working for a company and I've been asked to find a ASP.NET package to create a forum. I found this product and I want to know if it's ok for my requirements:

1. Login must be made with an existing user table. I know it will need some modification but is it possible?
2. I just want to use the forum, I don't want menus with blog, photos or anything like that. Is it possible?
3. I need to create multiple forum, all of them must be completely independant. In fact, we have one table for users, but they can be member of different forums. Is it possible?
4. I download the express edition, is that the correct edition for my needs?

I think that's all for the moment. When I will get your answers, maybe I will have more questions!

 Thanks in advance for your help!

Jaff

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Alex Crome replied on Mon, Oct 22 2007 11:52 AM

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1. Yes - that will be possible using 'Morpheus'.  See http://docs.communityserver.org/wiki/page.aspx/246/morpheus-an-overview/ for more information
2. Yes -  goto Control Panel > Administration > Settings > Applications and you can turn off everything except forums.
3. Yes - to allow different users to be able to read / post to different forums, you'll need to create 'roles' which can read / post to the appropiate forum and then assign users to those roles as appropiate.
4. Not for comercial use.  You may use the expres edition to try out CS and to assess whether it's appropiate for you needs however if you are going to use it on a comercial site, you'll need to buy a comercial edition (i.e. Small Business or above). 

I hope i've answered Qs. 1,2 and 4 well.  My answer for Q. 3 is fairly vague as I'm not 100% sure what you meant by your third requirement.  If you could expand a bit more on how independant you want each forum to be we'll do our best to help you out.

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JaffAJob replied on Mon, Oct 22 2007 12:09 PM

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Thanks a lot for your reply!

 I will go and check morpheus.

 For number 4, I read the agreement and it's ok. The usage of the forum will only be in the inside of the company and nothing will be sell.

Thanks!

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JaffAJob replied on Tue, Oct 23 2007 11:10 AM

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Hi it's me again,

 I check Morpheus, but to be honest,  I don't understand what it can do to help me. Here is what I need again:

I already have an application with a user table, and this table is already related to a very big application. What I need is that this current table will be used for the forum so that my users don't need to resign a second time for the forum (Or mayby I can juste set some session variable to mimic a login). I also need that when a user create an account in my current application, it create an account in CS so users don't need to create an account a second time ! And finally, when they will create their accound in my application, I need to set which "roles" they have (to restrict which forum they see). I don't want to manually set these roles in the application logged as and administrator.

 Please help!!

Thanks!

Jaff

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daveburke replied on Tue, Oct 23 2007 10:00 PM

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Jaff,

You're looking at one of the Community Server Single Sign-On Modules then.  Documentation on SSO at this site is pretty poor, but lots of good information on the download readme of the SSO for your environment.  You'll find the download here.  ASP.NET Forms, Windows Authentication, Cookie-based, Passport and Cardspace.  How it works is that CS is, in regards to authentication, a child application to an existing application which passes account info to CS.  Essentially, if the user does not exist in CS it is created dynamically when the user hits a CS page for the first time.  Other than Windows Authentication Single Sign-On which makes users who are admins of the doman admins of CS, there is no automated role assignments in SSO unless you build a custom solution, typically with a CSModule on the PostUserUpdate event.

Regards,
Dave