The Community Starter Kit Custom Controls

We’ll take a look at the common custom controls in the CSK.

The secret of building a functional skin file lies in using the included CSK controls properly. You can find these custom controls under the Controls subfolders under the /Engine folder:

• /Engine/Admin/Controls subfolder contains the controls used in the admin pages.

• /Engine/Modules/module_name/Controls subfolder contains controls specific to particular modules. module_name can be one of the following: Articles, Books, Discuss, Downloads, Events, Links, ParentSection, or PhotoGallery. (There are two more folders that have no custom controls defined: CustomModules and HtmlPage).

• /Engine/Framework/feature_name/Controls subfolder contains various controls specific to CSK features. The subfolders in Framework that contain custom controls are: Comments, ContentPages, Images, Moderation, Notify, Ratings, Controls, Services, Topics, Users, Voting, and WebBoxes.

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