When using the Javascript OpenID connect client (oidc-client) library switching from one complaint provider such as Identity Server to another such as Auth0 is pretty straightforward, but there are a couple of things to look out for.

If your creating a plugin for Verint Community (aka Telligent Community) you need to use the .NET Framework version of the lowest version you want to support. This is because DLLs built using older frameworks can be run by newer ones, but not the other…

We have created an Azure DevOps extension which will append the branch name to all builds not created from the master branch, that is now available on the Visual Studio marketplace.

Version 1.4.2 of the chrome extension for Verint Community (aka Telligent Community) developers is now available. This new version comes with a new name to recognise the switch from Telligent Community to Verint Community, and with support for the newly…

A new version (1.2.3) of the chrome extension for Telligent developers is now available. To edit a page since Telligent Community 9, you've had to hover over the pencil icon, select "Edit Site/Group/Blog Theme", and then click "Edit this Page", this new…

The Telligent Community Developer Shortucts chrome extension provides a selection of quick links for common development tasks in Telligent Community. You can assign a keyboard shortcut to each of these actions.

Interested in building a plugin for Telligent Community, but don't know where to start? Our new video series explores some of the core concepts as we walk through the creation of a fully functional plugin.

AKA Using Docker Compose with Telligent Community. I've seen a lot about Docker and Docker Compose over the last few months, but not had a chance to use it. With the push from Microsoft and the ability to run windows based containers I decided it was…

Last Christmas whilst working on the Macmillan Cancer Support community, some of the team thought it decided to add a Christmas themed "Easter Egg" to the site. To start with I was skeptical, but within a few hours Kieran had put something together…

Step by step guide on how to deploy a ASP.NET Core website using Visual Studio Team Services and Octopus Deploy!

When you get Telligent Community content via the REST API, by default embedded content (such as Videos or Audio), isn't returned, instead it is replaced with a message such as "(Please visit the site to view this video)", the PostTarget parameter can…

Often when writing code for use with Telligent Community you'll need to get hold of the current context from the content, for example the current Group, Blog or Blog Post, this can be accessed using the CurrentContext property.

Often when writing a blog there will be a standard piece of text, or link that you use in many blog posts, and end up copying and pasting between posts. This can become tedious and if you need to update the text is a lot of effort, this is where snippets…

If you ever need the full URL when using Telligent Community this can easily be done with the AbsoluteUrl method, in either velocity or C#.

The latest version of Telligent Community adds open graph tags to the page by default, but doesn't add the tags required for Twitter to make use of those tags and show a preview of the content within the tweet. Easily enable Twitter Card support with…

If your anything like me, when developing with Telligent Community your likely to have many tabs open, Widget Studio, API Documentation, Developer Tools, and will be always jumping between them! Once the tabs are open this can work out OK, but as soon…

We’ve been running the Telligent Community UK User Group for almost a year now, and I think we have now started to get the hang of organising them! As Telligent is a product used worldwide, and we are currently the only user group, we’ve ...

AWS provide an extension to Visual Studio to make interacting with your AWS services easy, including deploying to a Beanstalk environment, which is the recommended way of deploying to a Beanstalk. This works great, and if you are able to, you should…

If you are hosting a ASP.NET App using an AWS Elastic Load Balancer (or Elastic Beanstalk), you may want to redirect all requests to another site, or rewrite all requests to a holding page for some amount of time. With a ASP.NET applications and AWS…

Last week Scott Hanselman announced the release of Open Live Writer. This is an Open Source version of the excellent Windows Live Writer tool for authoring blog posts, which hasn’t been worked on for several years. Whilst trying out the new version Open…

I'd read a little about bug bashes, and after speaking with a couple of members of the team set up a "Bug bash and Bug Squash" day. The idea was simple, get as many of the team and stakeholders together as possible and review the site, listing every issue…

Many widgets in Telligent Community use "endless" or automatic paging, loading the next page of content when the user reaches the bottom of the page. By default the next page of content is loaded when you are 150 pixels from the bottom of the page. If…

Github Gist's provide a simple way for storing and sharing code snippets linked to your GitHub account. Gist's can be embedded in web pages, this requires a Javascript snippet to be placed on the page where the Gist should appear. Telligent Community…

When browsing a community site created with Telligent Community (formally Zimbra Social) one of the first things you are likely to see is the Activity Stream. This shows a summary of the recent Activity that has taken place. But how you can customise…

You may be unable to build a solution that references the Zimbra Social DLLs after upgrading to Visual Studio 2015, and receive a "Failed to Emit Module" message. This only happens if you call certain methods. Currently there is no fix available for this…