An application is a Telligent Community program (not a widget) that members use to manipulate data by creating it, posting it, commenting on it, viewing it or deleting it. If you think of a group as a neighborhood in the Telligent Community, an application is a car that moves data around in the group.
Note that:
- When you create a group, Telligent Community creates one of each application type automatically. You can then can remove any of these applications or add additional applications as necessary through the Manage Group contextual panel.
- A group directly owns the content it creates. For example, a group's blog application owns its blog posts.
- An application can be moved to another group by changing the group in application configuration.
Application Types
There are six types of applications in Telligent Community. These types are described below:
Name | Description | Typical Uses |
Blog |
An application for distributing news or expressing a point of view. |
A location within a member's group where he/she and other authors can distribute news or write commentary on a specific topic or expertise. Readers of the content can often comment on the content. |
Calendar | Event calendaring. | Originating and manipulating calendars and events, activity stream reporting of all calendar and event activity, geocoding (location services), and search. A calendar event provides an invitation, attendance, location details, and reservations. |
Forum | Discussions and/or question and answers. | Discussion threads advocate an opinion or point of view, and can be posted by any group member. Q&A posts are answered using or replies, suggested answers, and verified answers. Discussion threads might be topical about a method or event, or aimed at consensus-building. Q&A threads are used to solicit answers or opinions for a question. |
Ideation | Idea generation and evaluation. | Poses challenges to stimulate idea creation; records idea generation; allows voting and commenting, and provides for idea triage and status notation. |
Gallery | File upload, comment, and download tool. | Nearly any kind of image or document file can be uploaded (including dragged and dropped) into the gallery, then commented on or downloaded. |
Wiki | Content creation, editing, and deletion. | Allows for collaborative or individual content creation (such as reference articles), editing, or deletion. Supports commenting and contains a revision history for comparing document versions. |