Ektron 9.00
A community is a group of people who network with each other to share information, ideas, likes and dislikes. Typically, people or members in the community are connected by a relationship. For example, they work for the same company, went to the same school, share values, or have a friendship.
When you visit a community site, look around to see the kind of information, people and groups that are on the site. Typically, you can see only limited information initially. To see all information, you need to become a member. When you sign up to be member, you enter information about yourself in a member profile. After becoming a member, you can:
The Community Platform in Ektron is a group of features that lets users network socially on a website. Access to the community platform is available from the website or the Workarea but only Ektron users and administrators can access their information via the Workarea. As an Administrator, you can manage Community features from the Workarea. Membership Users, Ektron users, and administrators can access their profile pages via a website.
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To learn about the server controla server control uses API language to interact with the CMS and Framework UI to display the output. A server control can be dragged and dropped onto a Web form and then modified.s that let membership users log into an Ektron site, see Getting Started with Ektron and Login server control. For other community-related server controls, see the following: