Assigning Templates to Groups and Members

As mentioned in Managing User Communities, Ektron CMS400.NET ‘s Community Management feature supports both community and individual member pages. Like other Ektron CMS400.NET content, Community Management content appears on a dynamic Web page. Page templates determine each page’s layout and location of elements (menus, content, blogs, etc.). Below is a sample Community Management template. See Also: Creating/Updating Templates

See Sample Group Template

Sample Group Template within Visual Studio.NET

Sample Group Template on a Web Page

The Community Management feature includes six templates:

Community Group

- documents

- photos

- journal

User

- documents

- photos

- journal

Ektron CMS400.NET provides a sample for each template. You can use the sample or create your own. If you begin with a sample template and modify it, be sure to save it under a different name to prevent it from being overwritten when you upgrade.

The Templates Screen

Use the Workarea Settings > Community Management > Templates screen to assign templates to Community Management pages.

See Screen Sample

The following table explains the fields on the Templates screen.

Field	Page that displays template
Group Templates
Community Document	Page hosts the CommunityDocuments Server Control; ObjectType property is set to Group
Photo Gallery	Page hosts the PhotoGallery Server Control; ObjectType property is set to Group
Journal	Page hosts the Blog Server Control, and the blog was created for a group page
Profile	Page that hosts a Community Group Profile server control. Note, however, that a site visitor, while viewing a page, may click an icon to visit a community group profile from there. See image below. In this case, if the original control has a TemplateUserProfile defined, that value overrides this field and defines the template in which the community group profile is displayed.
User Templates
Community Document	Page hosts the CommunityDocuments Server Control; ObjectType property is set to User
Photo Gallery	Page hosts the PhotoGallery Server Control; ObjectType property is set to User
Journal	Page hosts the Blog Server Control, and the blog was created for a user page
Profile	Page that hosts a User Profile server control. Note that a site visitor may click a user icon to visit a user profile from another page. See image below. In this case, if the original control has a TemplateUserProfile property value defined, that value overrides this field and defines the template in which the user profile is displayed.