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2/18/2008 1:34:16 PM
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larrym
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I am a dotnet developer and am researching your product for possible use on our site. Our existing forum software is a private community which serves our existing customers only. When a new user wishes to register to use a forum he must select an existing company under which to create his individual profile. Registered users then have the capability to search a Company Directory or an Individual Member Directory -- and view whatever information was posted about these membership accounts when they were created. Not a lot of info, pretty basic stuff here.
I am using SQL Server 2005 and VS2005 under dotnet 2.0 for our website
My question is this: Is the underlying architecture of the source code easily adaptable to this type of customization? And if so, anybody have a rough ball-park idea of the effort (hours - days) that would be needed to customize this product in this way?
Thanks in advance to anybody responding
-LarryM
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2/19/2008 1:50:43 AM
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jitbit
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As far as I can see, all you have to do is add 1 field to the "ForumUsers" table and modify the registration procedure ("INSERT INTO ForumUsers ..." etc.) I think it would take no more than a day to modify the sources to add all this.
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2/19/2008 7:07:43 AM
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larrym
Posts 4
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Thanks jit. But I am more thinking about adding a new table called "ForumCompanies" and establishing a one-to-many relationship from it to the "ForumUsers" table. That way I can add some company information, and make the list of companies searchable and expandable so that users can read the company profile and see some info about the company, and then also see the list of users within that company.
Do you consider that the source code in your product is structured in such a way that this can be done without too much trouble?
Also, I have another question:
Another requirement that I am working with is to allow users to subscribe to an entire forum (or just a thread) and have all posts from that subscription be automatically emailed to them (similar to the functionality in Yahoo Groups). This is not the same as email notification, I need the actual posts to be brought into the users email client. I can see that your product has RSS feeds, and that I could use one of of the 3rd-party Outlook add-ins with the RSS feed to accomplish this. (Most of my users are not yet using Outlook 7)
Is there a more direct way to do this (pre Outlook 7) without telling my users they have to start a RSS feed and then get a Outlook add-in installed?
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