Development

Structured Data/Schemas

Aderson Oliveira — Wed, 12 Oct 2022 21:56:37 GMT

Hi Chris,

Not 100% what you mean by "Data/Schemas" but if I got it right an you mean around tables and records, I think xModPro is a good solution. I have used it many times in the past.

https://www.dnndev.com/products/xmodpro

Cheers,

Aderson

DNN 9.10.2 - Razor Pages

Martin — Tue, 23 Nov 2021 18:08:29 GMT

I'm playing around with creating a Razor Module. I remarked that all Helper-Methods are marked the following:

namespace DotNetNuke.Web.Razor.Helpers
[Obsolete("Deprecated in 9.3.2, will be removed in 11.0.0, use Razor Pages instead")]
public class UrlHelper
{
}

Does anyone have information about how to use Razor Pages on a DNN 9.10.2 installation?

Regards, Martin

Copy site

Aderson Oliveira — Thu, 08 Oct 2020 19:18:31 GMT

Hi Chris,

Assuming you have bought the 3rd part modules with the rights to use on as many DNN install as you want:

1 - Copy the site files and backup the database;

2 - Restore them both on the new location - I will assume you know that you have to commission a new site by using something like IIS or if you use a control panel like plesk, you do it there;

3 - Change the PortalAlias table, the URL field to point to the new domain;

4 - Adjust the db access in the web.config file;

That should get you going.

Best regards,

Aderson

customize login

Aderson Oliveira — Tue, 22 Sep 2020 10:52:46 GMT

Hi Chris,

1 - "Password reset" can be disable within the web.config with the enablePasswordReset="false"

2 - For the rest you need to be creative and skilled with the CSS of that module. With CSS and a bit of jquery you can do wonders. I don't have a be-all and end-all answer for this one.

Best regards,

Aderson

Countdown module error

Aderson Oliveira — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:33:29 GMT

Hi Chris,

DNN 9 removed some dependencies with Telerik. The modules that you are trying to install don't seem to be compatible with DNN 9 because they seems to depend on Telerik.

I think this is the problem. Have you checked if they are compatible with DNN? More specifically with your version of DNN 9?

Best regards,

Aderson

iframe refused to connect

Aderson Oliveira — Fri, 21 Aug 2020 17:46:30 GMT

Hi Chris,

If the page you are on in HTTPs and the iFrame is to a non-secure page, you may have problems.

That is what I can think of.

Cheers,

Aderson

Complex log in

Christopher — Wed, 12 Aug 2020 16:07:01 GMT

Thank you

The type or namespace name 'Entities' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke'

Stephen — Wed, 12 Feb 2020 08:43:13 GMT

Thanks Aderson and thanks for asking your friend too.

I couldn't imagine it either but just reading all the answers to similar questions gave me the clue I needed.

All sorted now, I need to start debugging.

Steve

Login not appearing in popup

Neil — Thu, 25 Jul 2019 06:03:27 GMT

I've watched the videos about creating an authentication provider and have created my own authentication provider. I've enabled it on the site and disabled the default DNN authentication. Having done that, the login doesn't appear in a popup window any more. I've inspected the source for the 'Member Login' link and it has changed since adding the additional authentication. How can I make it appear in a popup like before?

before:

<a class="hidden-xs udc-login" id="dnn_dnnLoginAH_loginLink" onclick="return dnnModal.show('http://xxx/Login?returnurl=/&popUp=true',/*showReturn*/true,300,650,true,'')" href="http://xxx/Login?returnurl=%2f" rel="nofollow">Member Login</a>

after:

<a class="hidden-xs udc-login" id="dnn_dnnLoginAH_loginLink" onclick="this.disabled=true;" href="http:/xxx/Login?returnurl=%2f" rel="nofollow">Member Login</a>

Assign user roles without getting email notification

Aderson Oliveira — Wed, 17 Jul 2019 12:26:53 GMT

Neil,

You are better off asking this question on the DNNCommunity.org site: https://dnncommunity.org/forums

Best regards,

Aderson

rss for itunes

Aderson Oliveira — Fri, 25 May 2018 18:42:09 GMT

Hi Chris,

The RSS feed from the HTML module has a very different format as compared to the one expected by itunes. So that will not work.

Your best bet is to get a podcast hosting provider where you can load the file and they will provide you with an RSS feed.

There are many hosting companies like that for instance Lidsyn is one that I have used in the past.

You may find this article interesting:

https://www.podcastinsights.com/upload-a-podcast/

Besides that, if you want to self host your files, you will have to get a developer to code your own feed from the site as I'm not aware of a module that provides the itunes rss feed.

Best regards,

Aderson

import an html js application

Scott Wilkinson — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 10:16:10 GMT

Not that I am aware of. The only way to install a module in DNN is using the standard manifest and packaging process.

8/9 DAL2 SPA Module - Unable to Remove FeatureController

Scott Wilkinson — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 09:42:43 GMT

Michael,

There's nothing special about the FeatureController class in the template. What make it special is if you define that class as your module's <businessControllerClass> in the manifest. Then it becomes special. By the way, the name of the class is irrelevant, it is just important that the fully-qualified namespace and class is specified in the businessControllerClass element.

Once you tell DNN what your business controller class is, you then can implement 3 integration points that allow DNN to call into your module. Those integration points are: search (ModuleSearchBase), import/export (IPortable), and upgrade (IUpgradable). These are special integration where DNN will call into your module to perform a task. If you don't need your module to support custom search data, import/export, or custom upgrade/installation tasks, then you don't need to define the businessContollerClass.

Lucene Search

Scott Wilkinson — Mon, 05 Mar 2018 08:44:21 GMT

Ami,

There are two parts to implementing search using DNN (and lucene). #1 - Indexing data (adding or updating data in the lucene index) and #2 - Querying the data (searching the index).

My tutorial that explains the ModuleSearchBase implementation is for the purpose of #1. The GetModifiedSearchDocuments() implementation (in DotNetNuclear.SearchContent.zip) is called when DNN's Site Crawler scheduled task runs to ask all DNN modules for their search index data. My tutorial shows how you can push custom module data into the DNN lucene index. This has nothing to do with querying the lucene index.

My other tutorial for customizing the search results (DotNetNuclear_HandlebarsCustomResults.zip) shows #2, querying the index. It is true I don't show the C# code for performing a lucene search. Instead I call the core webAPI method from DNN that queries the index. This is a javascript method in the results.ascx:

function runSearch(term, filter) {
var apiUrl = dnnSearchAPI.getServiceRoot('internalservices') + "searchService/search";
if (filter) { term += ':' + filter; }
apiUrl += '?search=' + encodeURIComponent(term) + '&pageIndex=1&pageSize=15&sortOption=0&culture=en-US'
$.get(apiUrl, function( data ) {
//use the search result data
});
}

Above you can see I am using the DNN's internalServices/searchService/search webapi method. You can look at how DNN performs the lucene search in this webAPI method. https://github.com/dnnsoftware/Dnn.Pl...

If you are just trying to implement a custom search input box that should be on every page, I would build it as a Theme/Skin Object. I have a tutorial that explains how to build a custom skin object. This would allow your search box to be embedded into the site's skin so you don't need to put a module on all pages.

To answer your question about the core search input. That is a skin object. The code is in /admin/Skins/search.ascx. You can start by copying this for your custom skin object.

Hopefully this helps with confusion. I will try to check on this post more often so I can answer your questions sooner.

Removing files when deleting a DNN module

Stephen — Fri, 24 Nov 2017 13:12:29 GMT

Hi Aderson,

OK will do, thanks.

Yes, I'm a member :-)

Best Regards,

Steve

Database installation script error

Stephen — Wed, 15 Nov 2017 16:34:37 GMT

Hi Aderson,

According to https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2299249/what-is-the-use-of-go-in-sql-server-management-studio-transact-sql"
"The GO command isn't a Transact-SQL statement, but a special command recognized by several MS utilities including SQL Server Management Studio code editor."

So I guess it can be removed completely. I'm not sure how DNN runs SQL but presumably, it doesn't recognise the Go command.

But that still leaves me with generated scripts that don't work. I could write something to remove them I suppose being careful not to remove the letters 'go' from anywhere else in the script. Or I could write my own script generator as mentioned, there are some other things i would like to include like checking if a record already exists before attempting to insert it, that would make my scripts re-runnable.

Steve

Illegal characters in path

Stephen — Sat, 04 Nov 2017 10:42:55 GMT

Hi Aderson,

OK that's good, that's the final piece of the problem in place :-)

If you delete the temporary directories 'package' (NOT 'packages') and 'ResourcesZip' it should compile.

Steve

Error calling web service

Stephen — Wed, 11 Oct 2017 14:58:43 GMT

Hi Scott,

I'm sorry I didn't see your last reply before posting one after it.

Yes, it could be a .Net Framework issue.

I've just taken the web.config file from another of my sites on the same host. I edited it just to change sql server login and it works fine. I haven't tested this thoroughly yet but I'm cautiously optimistic. I will talk to the host and see what they say.

It's taken me quite a few hours to find an issue which seems to be caused by a badly edited web.config file. It wasn't me who made all the changes but the hosting company I hasten to add.

Thank you so much for your questions. I didn't know to look for an error log file, I assumed everything would appear in the event log. Your question prompted me to check the web.config file.

All the best,

Steve

Unable to Access Controller in Child Portal

michael — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 15:29:28 GMT

Came across a brand new issue today that after an hour of googling I couldn't find a solution.

Here's the issue. I have installed a custom module (I manage around 30 of these so it's not like this is my first one) the same way I do every time on our test environment which happens to have a child portal attached to it.

When I try to hit the API with this URL: http://demo.website.com/DesktopModules/AdminUIEmployer/Api/Employer/Get?employerId=1

I get the message: Unable to locate a controller for http://demo.website.com/DesktopModules/AdminUIEmployer/Api/Employer/Get?employerId=1. Searched in namespaces: AdminUIEmployer.Api.Controllers.

However when I try almost the exact same URL to the parent: http://test.website.com/DesktopModules/AdminUIEmployer/Api/Employer/Get?employerId=1

I get what I expected to get when linking routes in the browser: Authorization has been denied for this request.

What could possibly be wrong. Both sites (child and parent) share the same file system and every single other module works as expected in both environment. Just not this one.

I've checked and made sure the DLL's are installing correctly and they are. I can't understand why this functions correctly in two environments (my local and the parent portal) but not my child portal...

Relevant code:

public class RouteMapper : IServiceRouteMapper
{
public void RegisterRoutes(IMapRoute mapRouteManager)
{
mapRouteManager.MapHttpRoute(
"AdminUIEmployer",
"default",
"{controller}/{action}",
new[] { "AdminUIEmployer.Api.Controllers" }
);
}
}

namespace AdminUIEmployer.Api.Controllers
{
public class EmployerController : BaseDnnApiController
{
[ValidateAntiForgeryToken]
[HttpGet]
public HttpResponseMessage Get(int employerId)
{ }
}

Determining modules in a DNN 8 database.

Stephen — Sat, 26 Aug 2017 04:58:59 GMT

Hi Aderson,

Thank you for your reply.

Yes, you can go either way, but I'm trying to find modules for which data exists in my app but which have been deleted in DNN.

Hence I created a list of all modules filtered by ModuleName to compare to the list of modules referenced by my app.

Then for those records with a null portalID, I tried working back to try and see which pages they exist on.
Now I can see they're on deleted pages.

Anyway, I don't think those records are doing any harm, so I will just ignore them.

Thank you once again.

Steve

Development

Structured Data/Schemas

DNN 9.10.2 - Razor Pages

Copy site

customize login

Countdown module error

iframe refused to connect

Complex log in

The type or namespace name 'Entities' does not exist in the namespace 'DotNetNuke'

Login not appearing in popup

Assign user roles without getting email notification

rss for itunes

import an html js application

8/9 DAL2 SPA Module - Unable to Remove FeatureController

Lucene Search

Removing files when deleting a DNN module

Database installation script error

Illegal characters in path

Error calling web service

Unable to Access Controller in Child Portal

Determining modules in a DNN 8 database.

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