I have a situation where I have predefined tab name payments.
Now I want to load my payment module inside it whenever Tab is being called.
How can I Achieve this functionality?
Just write your own module:
Watch Tutorial here:
http://www.dnnsoftware.com/community/learn/video-library/view-video/video/437/view/details/dotnetnuke-explained-basic-module-development
Other videos in Development section
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I had an link in my DNN site Menu - pointing to aspx page of my installed module.
I replaced this link with an external link.
And now i wish to change back to old one - aspx from module. BUT am not getting that listed in the dropdown
How to get that back or I missed anything ? I could found the module still in that EXTENSIONS.
Please suggest
Rigin
I think you may be a little confused,
Modules are placed on pages, (One or mor module generally makes up a page.
Menu links refer to pages,
To add a module to a menu it must be on a page.
Once you have placed you module on a page you can select it from the select a web page drop down
A dnn module got 2 pages a view page and a settings page. So you must be sure that your module start's with the correct page.
So what you want is not possible the way you want it.
Best way for you is to control the page in your module. You can control this with for example a user controls(ascx). See image for a default module view.
I have create a DNN Module using the Visual Studio DotNetNuke 7 C# Compiled Module template. When my module is installed, I would like to create a page for View.ascx. How can I do this? Can this be done when I upload the module in Host > Extensions?
From the Control Panel you should use the Add new page functionality, then place your Module on that newly created page.
Check out this video for how to Add a page in DNN7.
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Video-Library/Viewer/Video/549/View/Details/How-to-add-a-page-in-DotNetNuke-7.aspx
And this one for how to adda module to a page
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Video-Library/Viewer/Video/537/View/Details/How-to-add-a-module-to-a-page-in-DotNetNuke-7.aspx
To answer the question specifically about having this done automatically with the module, yes, you can, BUT you have to write code to do this and I only recommend it for special circumstances.
I've seen this done using an implementation of the IUpgradable interface in DNN to detect an initial installation and create the page using DNN API calls.
There is some detail in the Wiki about how IUpgradable works
I have a DNN module which renders a user control (view.ascx)
All is ok ( I am logged in ) and I get the DNN settings menu.
however when I add another control and load it like so:
string url = Globals.NavigateURL(PortalSettings.ActiveTab.TabID, "View_Details", "mid=" + ModuleId.ToString());
Response.Redirect(url);
I lose the settings link when the new control loads.
Any ideas? Is there a property somewhere to turn on settings for the loaded user control?
When you have "mid" in the querystring, you're going to be using module isolation (i.e. that module control will show up in the edit skin's ContentPane and will be the only module on the page). When in module isolation, the action menu doesn't include settings. This is just a fact of DNN.
You have a couple of options. First, you could choose another navigation method (see Michael Washington's old (but still good) Module Navigation Options for your DotNetNuke® Module article).
Second, you could put your own link to the Settings on that control. You may be able to implement IActionable and just add it back to the action menu (I'm not sure if that would work), or you can add some sort of button or navigation bar to your module (potentially on all of the controls for consistency).
Are you designing this module for the general DNN community, or for a client that isn't familiar with DNN? People with DNN experience won't expect to be able to get to the settings one they're "inside" a module.
I am extremely new to dotnetnuke. I have added an HTML module in home page. I want this module with same content in some other pages and it should be update automatically when i update in home page. How can i implement this in Dotnetnuke?
Please anyone help me!!!!
In the ribbon bar on top of the page, on the common tasks tab, in the Add module section
select the Existing radio button
select your home page in the page drop down
select the module you want a reference to in the Module drop down
click add module
P.S. this question is not programming related and doesn't really belong on SO. A better place to ask this question is the forums on DotNetNuke.com, you may also want to support the DNN proposal for StackExchange here.
ok i have created a picture gallery module in the left bar , there is a page viewpicturegallery.ascs . on clicking any image i want it details to open in the content pane in the middle . how would i do it.
can some tell me the process? i would made a new page or new module or what? for the details in the middle
here are some steps you can achive it:
create two controls in a single module for showing images and showing details for a single image and create two different definitions, each having a default view control as the one you want to show.
when you install the module in the page, it will show both definition controls in content page, you can re-arrange them in whatever panes you want.
search for inter module communication in dotnetnuke and grab a sample from net
you will find that there are two module definitions participating in the communication. Your list control will be the IModuleCommunication and your details view will be your IModuleListner
That's how you can achieve the things you want.
Please tell me if you have any other questions.
Short answer: use multiple DNN modules and communicate between them via querystring parameters, postbacks or IModuleCommunicator. Depending on your requirements, the details view may be possible to implement using a Text/HTML module and client-side tools like jQuery and plugins only?
More details on using multiple interconnected DNN modules:
You can define multiple modules in the .dnn manifest section.
This way, each interconnected submodule is part of the same install package, but you'll only have one visible module in the in the control panel's "Modules" dropdownlist. Adding this composite module to a page will add all the submodules, but you can remove any one of them independently of the others.
You should be aware that each submodule that directly inherits PortalModuleBase will have its own Settings object. If you want to share settings, you'll have to inherit from a shared parent ascx that inherits PortalModuleBase or write a function to read settings from another module in the same page (having the same ModuleID helps here).
Communication between modules can be based on querystring parameters, which is recommendable for opening a details view so that you can open it even if the gallery module weren't present. PostBacks let you use UpdatePanel, though. Modules in the same page can also use IModuleCommunicator interface for event-based communication. For example, I use an event calendar module with a "month view datepicker" module and a "list view of events" module. List view module communicates active days to the monthview via IModuleCommunicator. This way I can emphasize the active days with a boldface font in the datepicker. For more details on IModuleCommunicator, see Rafe Kemmis's blog post.