Page Management - New Functions in DotNetNuke

By Lee Sykes
September 2007

In this tutorial we demonstrate working with the new page management options in the latest DotNetNuke version 4.5.

This tutorial builds on the knowledge that we have taught in the previous page management videos, so we recommend you view the tutorials from issue 1 and issue 2 covering pages and security roles before continuing with this tutorial.

In these video tutorials we demonstrate:
  • Username Permissions: How to quickly add a user for view and edit permissions without the need for creating a special security role for that individual user
  • Copy permissions to descendants
  • Copy design to descendants
  • Copy page functions: How to copy modules from an existing page to a new page using the ‘new / copy / reference’ options.

Video 1 - Introduction, username permissions, copy permissions and design

  • Introduction
  • Security permissions: Username
  • How to give a username security permissions to edit a page
  • Demonstrate the user has full edit permissions
  • How to copy security permissions to descendants of a page
  • How to copy design to descendants
Time Length: 9min 5secs

Video 2 - Copy from page functions

  • How to use the 'Copy From Page' function
  • How to select which page to copy from
  • How to select which modules to copy from a page
  • How to specify a title for the copied modules
  • Explanation of the ‘New’, ‘Copy’, ‘Reference’ copy options
  • How to create a copy of a page and the modules using the ‘New’ option
  • How to create a copy of a page and the modules using the ‘Copy’ option
  • Demonstration editing the ‘copy’ version of a page
  • How to create a copy of a page and the modules using the ‘Reference’ option
  • Demonstration editing the ‘reference’ version of a page
  • ‘Include in menu?’ option
Time Length: 9min 34secs

Total Time Length: 18min 39secs

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