Hello,

I am looking for an accordion style control similar to one featured on this page:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/a...rry__91830
Notice the box on the right titled 'Related Recipes', and that there are 3 boxes below which expand and collapse smoothly when clicked.

I would like to be able to add a module (or preferably multiple modules) into each tab of the accordion control.

It's a common piece of gui functionality but I haven't been able to find anything to do this. There are a number of modules available from the dnn store but as far as I can see they allow the content to be an image or html not another dotnetnuke module. There are also menus which allow themselves to be configured in an accordion style but don't take modules as content.

Does anyone know of a 3rd party module I can buy to do this?

Failing that, can anyone advise on how to develop such a module.
I assume that I would need to use JQuery to create the accordion effect.
I'm not sure how I would allow a user to add a module to my control and I haven't been able to find any information on doing this. Does anyone know of a good resource for DNN module development that would give this kind of detail?

Steve.

I think that the jQuery Accordian (see http://jqueryui.com/demos/accordion/) is what you are looking for.

You would implement it in an HTML module that contains the "related" content and use a small jQery script to activate the accordian effect.

As jQueryUI is built into current version of DotNetNuke, this would be relatively easy to do.

Hi Joe,

Thankyou for your reply.

As well as being able to add modules to the tabs of an accordion control, I would like a user (with the correct privileges obviously) to be able to add tabs to the accordion as well as modules to a tab. Should have mentioned this in my original post.

Would the implementation you are suggesting support these features? I couldn't find any documentation on how to do this.

I was also looking at DNNStuff's Aggregator module, featured here in your excellent video series:
http://www.dnncreative.com/Tutorial...fault.aspx
It supports modules on tabs and allows a user to add tabs and modules to the tab. Unfortunately, the trial installation failed so I am waiting for a response from DNNStuff support.

If I could use the JQuery Accordion directly, I could avoid purchasing the Aggregator, but I am guessing the Aggregator is required to support the features I'm looking for.

Steve.

Aggregator is a nice modules. And, if you use it, you'll save the time and trouble of figuring out how to do this with jQuery. It will also make it MUCH easier for a non-techie to add content.

You will, of course, need to give that user permissions to edit the module.