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• Upgrading a Community Server 2007 Site Theme for Community Server 2008

  The following procedure describes how to upgrade a Community Server 2007 site theme to Community Server 2008.

   

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• Implementing Widgets in a Custom Theme

  You implement widgets in the Community Server 2008 themes after you update your themes. Click here for more information on upgrading your themes for Community Server 2008.

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• Adding Widget Dynamic Configuration Properties

  Community Server implements widget support as an extension to Dynamic Configuration support in themes. For each set (or column) of widgets in a theme, a new <property /> node must be added to the theme's theme.config file. The following <property /> node identifies a column of widgets: <property...

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• Upgrading a Community Server 2007 Blog Theme for Community Server 2008

  Use the following procedure to upgrade a Community Server 2007 blog theme for Community Server 2008.

   

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• Implementing Group/Hub Themes in CS2008

  Sub-communites, referred to as Groups in the user interface and Hubs in themes and the API, are new to Community Server 2008. Telligent recommends that you follow the procedure provided in Upgrading Community Server 2007 Themes for Community Server 2008 for copying themes and implementing changes to...

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• Setting Defaults for Widget Dynamic Configuration Properties

  When shipping a custom theme, you can include a default set of widgets for each column of widgets supported by the theme. 

   

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• Filtering Widgets for a Dynamic Configuration Property

  Community Server 2008 supports filtering the widget drop-down list by application type. 

   

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• Adding a Content Part to a Page

  You can use content parts to edit a portion of a site theme with a custom message, link list, or other less dynamic content.

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• Adding Dynamic Configuration Options

  You can add dynamic configuration options to your themes to support exposing end-user theme options on the Theme Configuration page in the Community Server Control Panel. 

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• Adding New Pages to Themes

  The SiteUrls.config file defines all of the rewritten URLs within Community Server.

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