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Simple question on DotNetNuke Module development

If you are developing multiple modules on a webpage displaying different things such as content like a bio or pictures based on a userId passed through the Query String. At page load should all modules on the webpage act independently and individually look at the query string and return the content based on the userId. And in the sam...

Retrieve Password DNN

Hi ALL, we are using dot net nuke portal. when user clicks Retrieve Password he gets email with From: [email protected] I want to change this email but I can't find the place. Thanks ...

DotNetNuke Retrieving UserInfo for the given UserID

Is there somthing in the dotnetnuke framework which will allow me to pass it a userId and it would return the UserInfo object filled with details of that userId. If not what would be the normal way of doing this? ...

Change favicon in DotNetNuke portal

I'm managing several DotNetNuke portals (as well as the main hosting itself). All of the portals have the default DNN icon in the address and when they're bookmarked. I want to have a custom favicon.! It's the icon on the left side of this: I've tried clobbering the default favicon.ico file in the root directory (where the web.confi...

Updating DotNetNuke module from another app

I have several DNN modules that I wish to update silently, using the portal's built-in module upgrade facilities called from a separate application, in this case a Windows service. I was able to make it all work with version 4.3 of the portal by modifying the DNN source in key areas to allow DotNetNuke.dll to function outside of a web ap...

Prevent jQuery multiple reference

Hi, I am developing Dnn modules and I am using jQuery in some modules, I add the jQuery reference to the top of the each ascx file, by the way when user add multiple modules to the page it references every time when modules are added, this situation gives some errors, when I remove the reference from the module which is bottom of the oth...

How to stop "SMTP Configuration Test" email every time I send a Newsletter in DotNetNuke 5.0?

The question is in the title, every time i send out a Newsletter from DNN (Newsletter Module) the Admin gets a blank "SMTP Configuration Test" email. How do I stop that email? ...

Dnn Module Packaging Question

Hi, I have folders inside a module which I developed and there are many files inside them. How can I package the folders with files? Should I archive the folders in a zip file? If so, how can I extract them again? ...

Dotnetnuke and gzip

I am currently running Dotnetnuke version 4.9.4 and would like to enable gzip compression. My concern is that IE6 prior to SP2 has known issues with gzipped content. Does the Dotnetnuke framework handle the gzip issues with IE6 or will I need to apply a fix outside of the framework? ...

How to use transactions in DotNetNuke?

I'm trying to do the most simple thing and apply a transaction to the CreatePortal method. If I'm using TransactionScope - It promotes to DTC for some unknown reason - BAD. using (var ts = new TransactionScope()) { var portalController = new PortalController(); var portalId = portalController.CreatePortal( ...

Reuse DNN modules in other applications

Hi, I had an application built on top of DNN. We created a few custom DNN modules for it. Now the functionality is required in another application that is not going to be built on DNN but on plain old ASP.NET. The question is that can the existing modules somehow be reused as is in other applications as plain UserControls somehow?? ...

DotNetNuke 'Run As Script' sql option

What does the 'Run as Script' option do in the Host->Sql page in DotNetNuke? ...

Dotnetnuke menu custom root

Is there anyway to use the built-in DNN Menu module to display a menu based at a different root node other than the current tab node? Given the following structure: Page1 -child1_1 -child1_2 Page3 Page2(hidden) -child2_1 -child2_2 In this scenario I will be having 2 menus on this skin. One will be normal navigation based off of the...

Multiple swf files not loading in DNN 5.X

Hi Guys, We have run numerous tests now and it has now come down to either a DNN-SWFObject loading multiple swf files on a page or Firefox bug. Here's the outcome we need: Two swf files on one page: Header.swf: which holds the nav and some bling animation. Map.swf: which has different provinces of the country highlighted on rollover...

Transferring DNNdatabase from local to production

Hi, I creaed one dnn applicaiton, and the source is moved to production and also same as the database is also moved to production server, but i am getting the dotnetnuke error. I think there is a database not inserted correctly. Can you help me how to transfer the database from local to production.. ...

Mixing DNN modules that use .NET 2.0 and 3.5

I am running a DNN 4.9.x site with a number of custom modules that we've written. They all use .NET 2.0 until I upgraded one of them to use 3.5. Now I'm getting this error on the 2.0 modules error CS0433: The type 'System.Web.UI.UpdatePanel' exists in both 'c:\WINDOWS\assembly\GAC_MSIL\System.Web.Extensions\3.5.0.0__31bf3856a...

Is it possible to make a tooltip appear on a DotNetNuke menu?

I am running DNN 5.x and the XDMediaBlue skin in horizontal menu full mode. Is there any way to have a tooltip appear for menu items? ...

Problems building a DNN module using Linq to SQL

I am building a module using linq to SQL and I am running into some problems. I have been following Michal Washington's tutorial on adefwebserver.com. The problem is that VB does not recognize my Complaint Class when I try to create new Complaint object. Any idea why I am unable to Dim a Complaint object? Here is my code: View.ascx.vb( ...

TabInfo IconFile

I'm wondering how to correctly use the IconFile property of a TabInfo object in DotNetNuke? I am building a custom overlay menu that will be displaying the tab name, description, and an icon similar to the Admin and Host pages that use the 'console' DesktopModule. If I have a TabInfo object that has an IconFile set for it the value of ...

Localize DNN Site via CodeBehind

Hi, I've a portal with two different alias, one for eache language: - en.mysite.com - it.mysite.com Now I've the issue to have English language on the first portal and Italian on the second one. What I've done is to add the following line in the default.vb.aspx in the Page_Load: If Request.Url.Host = "en.mysite.com" Then ...