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So, again I managed to keep quite for almost 2 months. Sometimes the energy for writing is just not there. No writing doesn't mean that nothing has happened though. The content of this article was meant to be published on the 18th of April. So here I'll quote myself on an article that never was...
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Sometimes there might be a need to add your users to different roles, depending on certain invitations, at registration time. Is that possible in Community Server (CS)? Well, in this case CSModules can be your friend as in many other situations. The other day there was a request for this functionality...
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Wouldn't it be great to be able to standardize how mails sent from your Community Server site looks, and to be able to change them on demand without having to re-compile anything? As you might know Community Server (CS) already has a built-in system for this. This localizable template system is used...
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Previously on J-O Erikssons blog: A long, long time ago. At least in Internet Time. At J-O Eriksson's old blog there was an article about a solution to handle sending Newsletters to your Community Server users with the help of CS Roles . As time went by, new articles was written, other areas of Community...
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Do you have any forums posts that have been caught by a spam rule? Or do you have any forums posts that haven't been approved for other reasons? It's not easy to know unless you frequently visit your Control Panel -> Forums to Moderate . I have had sites where I discovered posts that were several...
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I decided to call on The Wizard , who always seem able to name the right man for the job if it's not one he can do himself. After describing my ongoing problems, he suggested I drop a line to Telligent's resident SQL guru, Terry Denham. While I was drafting an email to him, a thought hit me, so I clicked...
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During a Skype conversation, I mention some of my upgrade headaches to Sean Winstead , who makes two helpful suggestions: first, that I try disabling constraints on the tables before running the Import/Export Wizard and secondly that I try using SQL Data Compare to sync the databases. I've used Red...
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Copy fresh set of CS 2.1 SP2 web files, hook up site in IIS, amend web.config, load Firefox, hit Return, hold breath. Error. But of course. ASP.NET is complaining about an unrecognised section in web.config, which reminded me I hadn't updated the ASP.NET script mappings for that site to ASP.NET 2...
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Time to get to grips with SSIS. I've not used this beast at all, so I did a little brushing up to see what the changes between this and DTS in SQL Server 2000 are. My first inclination was to run the Export Data wizard, but then I came across somewhat worrying post that suggested I might run into...
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My simple plan to get the database collation (and those of all it's tables) switched was based on these steps: Script entire database Create new db based on amended script with new collation Copy data Step 1 seemed like it should've straightforward enough, but of course, it turned out not to...