DotNetNuke Videos

This tutorial demonstrate the ASCX method of DotNetNuke skinning. This is the method that the professional DotNetNuke skinners use as it is much quicker to build skins in this way.

We explain the concepts of DotNetNuke ASCX skinning, how to setup Visual Web Developer Express to enable the skin token attribute suggestions, how to use ASCX skin tokens, how to make quick edits to tokens and instantly see them on your DotNetNuke website, how to display two tokens of the same type - for instance two menus, how to use skinpath for images, how to view the attributes that are available for a skin token, how to speed edit CSS code, how to quickly create additional skins using the ASCX method and instantly view them within your DotNetNuke installation, and finally how to work with ASCX Containers.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Pros and Cons of ASCX Skinning
• Video 2 - Introduction to ASCX Skin Code and Setup in VWD Express
• Video 3 - How to Edit The ASCX Tokens, Configuring the Search Token
• Video 4 - How to Display 2 Nav Menus, How to Use SKINPATH for Images
• Video 5 - Skin CSS Code Speed Editing in ASCX skins
• Video 6 - Containers ASCX skinning

This tutorial demonstrates how to add personalization to the knowledge base module.

We demonstrate InterModule Communications and create a ‘My Saved Articles’ module. This module allows the user to create their own list of favourite knowledgebase articles.

We demonstrate working with JQuery to create a ToolTip, how to change the “fetching data” message that is displayed for Ajax module refreshes (ie. When searching for an article and the site is loading the data) to an animated GIF and we show how to enable the OWS Text Editor, which allows us to create Rich Text/HTML articles.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Building the Saved Articles Module
• Video 2 - Add to My Saved Function, Delete Function, JQuery Tooltip
• Video 3 - Fetching Data Customization, Using the Text / HTML Editor
• Video 4 - Multi Category Selection for a Knowledgebase Article - OWS Checkboxes (Advanced Technique)
• Video 5 - Interactive Logging Techniques, Beginning Reporting - OWS Columns and Column Templates

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Markit Slideshow module. The Slideshow module is useful for displaying your featured articles and products as an image, text content or you can even display an existing module within a slideshow.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Adding Slides
• Video 2 - How to Create a Slide and View a Slideshow
• Video 3 - How to Create a Text / HTML slide and Existing Module Slide
• Video 4 - Slideshow Templates and Configuration Options
• Video 5 - Slideshow Configuration Options

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DNN Stuff’s Module Rotator. This module allows you to rotate the content of multiple modules in the space of a single module.

The video contains:

• Introduction
• Demonstration of the module in action
• How to download and install the module
• How to add Text / HTML modules to the page
• How to add the module rotator to a page
• Rotator, Manage Modules
• How to add modules from the page into the module rotator
• How to re-order the rotation display of the module
• Auto Hide Titles
• Demonstration of each module rotating on page load / refresh
• Timer Settings
• How to automatically rotate the modules display in seconds

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Markit PageEar module. The PageEar module allows you to place Page Peel advertisements on your DotNetNuke websites.

In this tutorial we walk you through installation and how to fully configure this module.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Configuration
• Video 2 - Configuration, Displaying the Module

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Monitter for DNN module by Joe Brinkman. The module is available as a free download from CodePlex.

This is a simple module which allows you to easily display a real-time feed of twitter search results on your website.

The video contains:

• Introduction
• How to download the module
• How to install the module
• How to add the module to the page
• How to configure the Monitter settings
• Search Terms
• Tweet Count
• Display Search Box
• Clear on Search

This tutorial demonstrates how to build the user search page for searching knowledge base articles.

We demonstrate how to implement record paging and column sorting, how to create a categories module and how to edit the knowledge base manager page so that we can record categories for each of our articles.

We show you how to enable and configure Full Text Search on the server, tricks on how to output the articles that people are viewing so they are printable and how to add an articles rating feature and the principles for a query based look up drop down field so that you can query tables from the database to make record selections.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Categories Module
• Video 2 - Categories Module and Passing IDs to the Search Module
• Video 3 - Search Knowledge Base Module, Full-Text SQL Search
• Video 4 - Search Results Formatting, Article Ratings
• Video 5 - Print Functions

This tutorial demonstrates how to use iFinity’s URL Master module. The URL Master module is one of the essential modules for your DotNetNuke websites as it creates Search Engine Optimised URLs and eliminates duplicate content from the Search Engines.This module gives you complete control over the URLs in your DotNetNuke website, this helps to improve your search engine rankings and therefore drives more traffic to your website.

The URL Master is also very useful if you are replacing an old website with a new DotNetNuke website or if you are reorganizing the pages of an existing site by using the 301 redirect functions of the module.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction and Installation
• Video 2 - Friendly URL Settings
• Video 3 - Friendly URL Settings and Testing
• Video 4 - URL Rewriting and Redirection Settings
• Video 5 - Advanced Rewriting and Redirection Settings
• Video 6 - Page URLS Redirection Settings

This tutorial demonstrates how to use OnyakTech’s Host Commander module. The Host Commander module is a host specific module which provides various useful functions for the Host Super User.

The functions available in this module include:

• Setting up scheduled jobs
• Provide portal statistics
• A Database Manager
• Execute stored procedures
• Global Time
• View the server, site and portal event logs in easy to read charts
• Monitor Users Live and which pages they have already visited
• Web Site Snapshot Generation for user profiles

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction and Installation
• Video 2 - Scheduled SQL Jobs
• Video 3 - Portals Dashboard, Database Manager, Global Time
• Video 4 - Server and Portal Event Logs, Monitor Users, Web Snapshots

This tutorial demonstrates how to download and import source code into R2i's Open Web Studio module.

To accompany our series on Open Web Studio we are providing you with the source code for the knowledgebase application. This tutorial shows you how to take the code we provide and import it into the OWS module on your own DotNetNuke site.

The video contains:

• How to download and open the module source code
• How to import the configuration source code into OWS
• Preserve configuration ID option
• How to publish the configuration code