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This tutorial provides a quick start guide for DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.

The DataSprings Dynamic Forms module is a very powerful module for quickly building forms and collecting data from the visitors on your website and it also allows you to quickly view and export the data into Excel files.

With so many functions available in this module, it would be impossible to cover them all in a single tutorial so this quick start guide shows the basic principles of the module and from there you can follow the additional Dynamic Forms tutorials on DNN Creative.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Question Wizard for Quick Setup
• Video 2 - Drag and Drop Functions For Quickly Building Forms
• Video 3 - Editing Form Fields, Creating a Combo Box
• Video 4 - Editing Field Properties, Using the Advanced Wizard
• Video 5 - Module Configuration, Validation, Sort Order and Styling Text Field
• Video 6 - Styling Text Field, Copying Fields, Additional Information

Total Time Length: 49min 17secs

This tutorial demonstrates working with Question Events in DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.

Question Events allow users to be prompted with new questions they were not previously privileged to, hide questions they were previously privileged to, or set the default value of a field. Question Events make your forms much more powerful, flexible and user friendly as they only display form fields that are related to the users’ details.

Before viewing this tutorial, make sure that you watch the Dynamic Forms Quick Start Guide.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Creating Additional Fields for the Question Events
• Video 2 - Advanced Wizard and Question Events to Display Hidden Form Fields

Total Time Length: 19min 50secs

This tutorial shows how to work with data in the DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.

We show you:

• How to view the data that the Dynamic Forms module captures
• How to setup a message to display when a user clicks on the submit button
• How to import and export forms that you have created into other Dynamic Forms Modules

The Import / Export feature is very useful as it allows you to reuse forms you have previously created for other projects.

Before viewing this tutorial, make sure that you watch the Dynamic Forms Quick Start Guide.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Submit Button, Submit Message
• Video 2 - Managing Captured Data, Importing and Exporting Forms

Total Time Length: 13min 21secs

In this 32min video interview with Paul Deschenes from Advologix.com we discuss Software as a Service (SaaS) and an application he has developed using ListX.

We discuss the process of developing a SaaS application and the benefits of Software as a Service over store purchased products. Paul then shows us an example of how he set up the ListX module and finally how to manage a SaaS architecture within DotNetNuke.

This tutorial demonstrates a method for quickly adding large amounts of data into a DotNetNuke module. The module in this example is the core Documents module.

Throughout the tutorial we walk you through the methods used for investigating how to add large amounts of data into the Documents module so that you can adapt these methods to add content to other modules.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Initial Demonstration with Documents Module
• Video 2 - Testing, Errors and Link Tracking Tables
• Video 3 - Creating an Excel file of Data for the Documents Module
• Video 4 - Copying the Data from Excel to SQL Server, Testing, Adding Files

Total Time Length: 40mins

This tutorial shows you how to setup the authentication settings in DotNetNuke.

The authentication settings cover the various configuration options available for the Login Page of DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to enable CAPTCHA in the standard DotNetNuke login page, as well as how to setup the login using Windows LiveID and OpenID.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, CAPTCHA, Windows LiveID Application
• Video 2 - How to Setup and Test Windows LiveID Login in DotNetNuke
• Video 3 - How to enable a LiveID Register Link, Configuring OpenID
• Video 4 - How to configure OpenID in DotNetNuke
• Video 5 - How to create an OpenID signup page

Total Time Length: 40mins

This tutorial demonstrates how to setup the DotNetNuke Core Search.

We walk you through configuring the DotNetNuke Core Search step by step, beginning with how to ensure that DotNetNuke indexes your website, the content that it should index and how to schedule a regular index of your website.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Using the DNN Core Search, Re-indexing Content
• Video 2 - Increasing Search Effectiveness, Configuring the Search Results Module
• Video 3 - Configuring the DotNetNuke Search Skin Object, Google AdSense Affiliate ID’s
• Video 4 - Configuring the Search Skin Object, Configuring the Search Input Module

Total Time Length: 32min

This tutorial outlines how to setup a Podcast website using DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how we setup the podcasts on dotnetnukepodcast.com right through to submitting your podcast to the iTunes store.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Dotnetnukepodcast.com, Configuring the Ventrian News Articles Module
• Video 2 - Feedburner.com, Creating an RSS feed
• Video 3 - Promoting the RSS feed using the iTunes Player

Total Time Length: 22min

This tutorial demonstrates how you can use the styles drop down list in the FCK editor to format the text.

Using the styles drop down list allows you to quickly apply CSS classes from your skin.css file and should help to ensure that administrators do not use bad practices for styling text, such as using font tags.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Styling the Background of the Style Dropdown List in the FCK Editor
• Video 2 - List of Available Styles for the FCK Editor
• Video 3 - Dynamic Styles in the FCK Editor
• Video 4 - How to Create Custom Styles
• Video 5 - Creating Class Styles in the Style Dropdown List
• Video 6 - How to Customise Block Quotes with Different Classes

Total Time Length: 48mins

This tutorial demonstrates how to create your own HTML templates for the FCK Editor in DotNetNuke.

HTML templates are really useful for adding repetitive content into a page; they can give you a starting point when adding content to the page, you do not need to start from scratch, you can simply select a template as a starting point and then edit the content within the template. This will help to reduce errors created by content editors.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, the FCKtemplates.xml file
• Video 2 - How to Create a Custom HTML Template

Total Time Length: 16mins