Displaying blog page as default

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csfreak Posted: Sat, Oct 18 2008 5:24 AM

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Hi,

Your themes are really excellent but I've some questions.

(1) How can I display the contents of the Blogs page as default insetad of the welcome page?

(2) How can I create new tabs on the top menu bar?

(3) How can I create new pages? I would like to create a new page called Reviews and post all the content for reviews there?

Regards,

Nandu

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Andrew Belon replied on Sat, Oct 18 2008 1:16 PM

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Hi Nandu,

Thanks for the feedback.

1. Regarding your blog question, download the following config overrides:
   
   http://docs.communityserver.com/customization/configuring-community-server-for-a-single-user-blog/
   
   Refer to the "communityserver_overide.config" file and comment (or remove) what is not relevant to your version of CSServer otherwise you will get "errors".  If all else fails, just edit the file to look like this:
   
   
        <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
   
        <Overrides>
   
               <Override xpath = "/CommunityServer/Weblog" mode = "new" name = "defaultApplicationKey" value = "Blog" />
   
        </Overrides>
   
   
   You will need to change "value" to the name of the blog you want as your root.  For a detailed alternative, visit Dan Bartels site: http://blog.danbartels.com/archive/2005/12/27/1138.aspx
   
   
2. In CS 2008.5, there is a custom navigation tab within the "Site Theme Admin", where you can edit up to two levels of menu items.  If you're using a prior version, check out this article (which also addresses your third question).
   
   http://www.aquesthosting.com/HowTo/CS/CSAddSection.aspx

Hope this was helpful. 

Regards,

AB

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Popeye_2k replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 5:51 AM

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Hey,

First of all thanks for some nice themes, im trying my luck with the 3dzlight theme + the solution above for showing the blog as the front page, however when i do this the new frontpage dont get the theme applied but is shown with the default one instead.

How to work around that?

By the way, i uploaded both override.config files, the the communityserver_override.config changed according to your post.
The other one i left "as is"

BR
Søren

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Andrew Belon replied on Tue, Dec 9 2008 11:55 AM

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Hi  Søren,

Did you set the blog default presentation to "3DZ Light"?  If not, then navigate to your blog theme settings:

Control Panel >  Manage "name of blog" > Change how your blog looks

Under "Available Themes" select "3DZ Light" then "save". 

I just tested the files located in the "Blog at Root" folder of the archive.  The siteurels_override works, however, communityserver_override.config will error out with the current CS version, since it is looking for config attributes that are no longer used.  As in the previous post, I removed everything except the override string for the weblog, and it worked.

The "blog" menu item will link to a blank page, so you might want to remove it from the navigation Item list or set the blog button "Role" to "Administrator" so only you can see it.

Regards,

AB