ActiveTopics

Inserting the ActiveTopics server control onto a page

Prerequisite

You must have installed the server controls. See Installing server controls into Visual Studio Toolbox.

1. In Visual Studio, choose View > Toolbox.
2. Click the Ektron server control tab to display the server controls.
3. Drag the ActiveTopics server control and drop it into the desired location on the page.

   NOTE: You also can place the cursor on the page where you want the server control, then double click the server control that you want.

   <CMS:ActiveTopics ID="ActiveTopics1" runat="server" />

4. Click on ActiveTopics in the code to display and modify the control’s properties using the Properties window of Visual Studio. The page is updated as you modify the property values.
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ActiveTopic properties

The following are Ektron-specific 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. properties. For information about native .NET properties such as font, height, width and border style, use Visual Studio^® help.

• BoardID (Long)

  The ID of the board from which to get entries. If you don’t know the ID, click Ellipses (), then sign in, browse to, and select a discussion board.

• CacheInterval (Double)

  The number of seconds that a 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 data is cached. The default is 0 (zero). For example, if you want to cache the data for 5 minutes, set to 300. See also: Caching with server controls.

• DisplayMode (eDisplayMode)

  Choose between Active or Recent. The default is Active.

  • Active. Lists the most active posts.
    
  • Recent. Lists recently added posts.
• DoInitFill (Boolean)

  By default, Fill occurs during the Page_Init event. Set to false if you want to postpone the fill-action until later. In this case, Fill is automatically called during the Page Render event. You might do this if you need to set or change a property on the control in code-behind and have it render with your changes shown.

• Hide (Boolean)

  Select False to display this server control on the page. Select True to suppress it.

• Language (Integer)

  Set a language for viewing content; shows results in design-time (in Visual Studio) and at run-time (in a browser).

• MaxNumber (Integer)

  The maximum number of topics listed. The default is 10.

• SuppressWrapperTags (Boolean)

  Suppresses the output of the span/div tags around the control.

  • True. Suppress wrap tags.
  • False (default). Allow wrap tags.
• URLPath (String)

  Enter the path to the Forum server control’s Web page. For example: http://<your site>/siteroot/forum.aspx or /CMS400Developer/forum.aspx. If your Forum page and your Active Topics page are in the same folder, just enter the name of the page. For example: forum.aspx.

• WrapTag (String)

  Lets a developer specify a server control’s tag.

  • Span (default). Designate an inline portion of an HTML document as a span element.
  • Div. Apply attributes to a block of code.
  • Custom. Lets you use a custom tag.