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nikebaxter-gmail - 7/7/2009 7:40:56 AM

Forum Activity

So I have a client evaluating Kentico and he has a question.

http://www.allaboutpets.org.uk/home.aspx

This site, on the right, shows the recent activity of the forum. Does Kentico allow for this kind of thing? Can it go further than that? Can it show all the activity throughout the site?

Something like a consolidated activity form...this blog post was just created, this guy just joined, here is a new comment, here is a new forum post, etc.

How detailed can you go to show visitors that your community is active?

Thanks,
David

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kentico_helenag - 7/9/2009 5:30:57 AM

RE:Forum Activity

Hello David,

we provide out-of-box web part to see the on-line users. Please see here: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/webparts/Kentico_CMS_WebParts.htm#_6af7efc2-ca74-4355-a33f-a440e77935ab for more details.

Maybe you could take an advantage of Forum posts viewer which can display the latest forum posts: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/webparts/Kentico_CMS_WebParts.htm#_6111a8f5-4736-4520-8cf3-b4c15e61da97

Other functionality needs to be developed by yourself. You could create a custom web part – please see here: http://devnet.kentico.com/docs/devguide/developing_web_parts.htm for more details.

You may use the API to know the number of posts in the last 24 hour for example (e.g. SelectForumPosts methods of class: CMS.Forums.ForumPostInfoProvider). In similar way you could know the latest users, comments and so on.

API Reference is here: http://devnet.kentico.com/downloads/kenticocms_api.zip

I hope this will help you. You could whenever contact our support team for more details.

Best regards,
Helena Grulichova

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