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Developer Options
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Centralized File System Overview
In Community Server 2007 and earlier versions, the many file-related features such as post attachments, site files, blog files, avatars, and role icons implemented their own file management logic and supported the following:
- Storing files in the database;
- Storing files in the file system; or,
- Configurable options allowing file storage in the database and/or file system.
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Configuring Community Server for Amazon S3
Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3) is a third-party service that allows you to store files and distribute them through Amazon’s file distribution network. You can configure Community Server to use Amazon S3 to store some or all files related to content such as post attachments and avatars.
Support for Amazon S3 is included with Community Server, but you must configure Community Server to use Amazon S3. You can independently configure each Centralized File System file store in Community Server to use Amazon S3.
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Allowing Users to Upload Files Greater Than 4 MBytes
To do this you need to add a httpRuntime element to the <system.web> section of the root web.config file.
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Changing the Email Address of Emails Originating from Community Server
Most of the emails that originate from a Community Server site use the admin users email address in the From address.
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Configuring w.bloggar to Work with Community Server
Follow the link below for directions for setting up wbloggar, a free blog authoring tool that works with Community Server.
http://scottwater.com/blog/pages/using_wbloggar_with_community_server/
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Customizing Footers
Since the footer appears on all pages, the markup (html and controls) representing the footer lives on a single master page. If you want to modify either the color or the background image of the footer, you can use the dynamic configuration settings described. If you want to change the footer in some other way, perhaps by adding a link, then begin by finding the master.Master file in your theme.
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Displaying Edit Notes to All Users
Community Server allows you to display the forum post edit notes to all users, even those who are not forum moderators. This means that any edit notes for any edited post will be displayed.
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Editing the Ban Reason and Ban Time Period Options
You can edit a banned time period and ban reason.
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Enabling Exception Logs
Exception logging is disabled by default. To enable it edit the communityserver.config in the root of your web site in a plain text editor like Notepad. Procedure Locate the line in the core section near the start of the file: enableExceptionLogging = "false" Change the line to: enableExceptionLogging...
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Hiding Tag Clouds
TagCloud controls can be set to not render when the tag cloud has no tags to display by using the EnableNoTagsMessage property.