If am integrating InstantForum.NET into an existing Intranet, what would be involved in disabling the login functionality of the forum?

Hi Lile,

Thank you for your post. A simple workaround to this problem would be to pre-populate the userID session variable the forums use. You could do this during your intranet login process. This would then skip the forums login process. Features within the forum such as members profiles would be effected by this modification. You could choose to remove the member specific features completely or integrate our members table information into your intranet users database table.

There are a number of ways to approach this. It would help if you could detail your specific requirements and i'll happily detail any changes that maybe required. I look forward to your response,

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Ryan,

Thanks for the reply.

To extend my inquiry...

I need to add a discussion forum to my company's Intranet, and I am currently exploring the cost benefit of using third-party software as an alternative to in-house development. InstantForum.NET has all the functionality I would require and more, but my concern is in regard to the ability to disable all of the extra "stuff" that I wouldn't want to use.

Essentially, I would like to have only the bare bones functionality - posting, replying, moderating - without the any of the functionality related to membership (login, profiles, etc.) or any of the extraneous "eye candy" such as smileys, etc.

I simply would like to try to assess the amount of extra work I could expect upon receipt of InstantForum.NET to modify it to meet the needs I've described.

Lile.

Hi Lile,

Gee, where do i begin

As i mentioned in my previous post you could integrate the InstantForum.NET login into your current Intranet members table by spoofing the member ID session variable used by the forums during your login process to use your user identifier. This would then automatically log users onto the forums from your members table providing you updated the InstantForum.NET login stored procedure to point to your table.

Within your current Intranet members table you would need to carry over some fields from the InstantForum.NET members table for the application to still function currently. You would need to add the additional fields to your intranet login table - LastLoginDate, NoOfPosts, Administrator, Moderator.

You would then need to update some application stored procedures to point to your members table and not the InstantForum_Members table.

You could then disable the profile, user information and members links from within the forums header and remove the physical files (userinfo.aspx, members.aspx, editprofile.aspx etc) from the application. This would be quite simple.

The smiles can be easily removed from the post.ascx user control. These are clearly defined and removing them from the WYSIWYG editor will not impact any other area of the application. You could even disable the WYSIWYG editor and only show the standard HTML TextArea.

I would guess around 1-2 days for the integration. If your familiar with ASP.NET and SQL Server you should be up and running with a very little learning curve. The application is very structured. It follows a very similar n-tier architecture to the IBuySpy portal provided by Microsoft.

I would be happy to help during your integration if you wish. I hope that offers some of the information you where looking for. If you have any further questions please don't hesitate to contact me. I'm more than happy to help

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