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I have posted about this before as have others and this has been talked about. But now I have a requirement to implement and I want to review what the options are available today or in the next update. While this has been discussed, I have not seen anyone actually doing it, or any notes on the steps to implement a shared community. If you have implemented such a shared multiple communities, I would certainly appreciate a link to the two sites to see them in action. Community 1000 Forum ... [read more]

straneg that in edit this post looks fine, but in reading all formatting is gone. As if the and are supressed. Well yes, this is mentioned in the FAQ as not supported but there is discussion about it, from there this fell silent. Yet posts from asp.net and last year here on this topic showed it as being an area people talked about having an interest in. Is it just talk, and the practical requirements for these are limited and it is off the design table? Or is it simple to do and I am missing ... [read more]

There used to be a way to mark forums as "shared" between communities, e.g. 1000 and 1001. This feature originated for the site www.aspadvice.com and it may still be possible to do this, but you'd have to spelunk the code to figure it out...

well I will take that as it is no longer on the feature list since it is coming straight from the horses mouth. The shared forum concept was discussed from the ASP.NET forum builds, but as I said - never seen it done and never tested it before. Thanks for the clarification Rob

Well another request came up, might as well check here on it. Can we create Community A, with user accounts A, Skin A and forums A And then create a second community Community B, with Skin B, forums B ( no shared forums) - but it uses the same accounts database as COmmunity A - user accounts A. This would allow a group using the main forums to branch off, run their own skined site, and still come back to Community A. Obviously the other big issue to this is does it allow for someone to be appo... [read more]

http://docs.communityserver.org/default.aspx/CS.MultipleCommunityInstallations states this is not tested yet - Anyone done this successfully for my domaina.com and domainb.com scenario above? seperate forums, seperate skins, same user database? Multiple Community Installations *A new Installer has been created that allows you to automatically create a new community on an existing database schema. Look for it it in the Addins and Modifications section. Just replace the default page in the Instal... [read more]