Customization Guide for the Telligent Evolution Platform - Downl. Developing on Community Server - Community Server - Alex Crome. When you come to developing on top of Community Server, you’ve first got to decide whether or not you should use the SDK (which you probably shouldn’t). You’ve then got to set up your initial project so you can best take advantage of Community Server.
This blog post will guide you through deciding (hopefully against) using the SDK and setting up Community Server to develop on top of it. What is the SDK To all intents and purposes the SDK is the source code for core of Community Server – that is it includes the source for the various CS applications (forums, blogs, etc.), controls and components. It does not however include source code for the Enterprise Addons (e.g. Single Sign On, Mail Gateway), nor the Telligent assemblies. Why should I avoid the SDK like the plague? Maybe I'm being a little over the top here, but I strongly reccomend you don't use the SDK for a live project. Generally there is no reason to need to touch the SDK. Building on Community Server without using the SDK. Jon from Proactive Logic » Blog Archive » Extending Community Se. Note: The pdf version of this post has been removed since I cleaned up the code formatting below. This post will go over my notes on how I accomplished extending the CS schema and code base in order to: acquire additional user fields on user registration, enable modification of these fields in the user control panel, display the new fields in the public view of the user’s profile, and display the new fields for the user in forum posts.
This post should be useful for developers that want to extend their CS schema and also contains content relevant for users just sticking with extended attributes (for example extending a theme with SubForms is useful for both scenarios). I have just started digging into Community Server 2007 as a pet project of mine. One thing that I wanted to do was link Community Server users with a set of tables that I already have in place. The first thing I did was to install the Community Server 2007 SDK and install the CS schema as per their directions. Read.