DNN Tutorials for Administrators

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use Token Replacement which is available for DotNetNuke versions 4.6 and above.

Token replacement allows you to display information such as the username, date, portal title etc. and you can display this information directly within the text of your modules.

Token Replacement is currently available for the Text / HTML, Newsletter and User Defined Table (UDT) core modules, and it is likely that it will be included in other core modules in future releases as well.

Time Length: 13mins

(Red Gate - SQL Data Compare)

In this tutorial we explore the development and deployment of a DotNetNuke website that is already online. - How to synchronise a local installation with a live installation.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to add updates to the local version and apply those updates to the live version while keeping both versions completely synchronised and without taking the live site offline and vice versa.

We demonstrate how you can synchronize a live hosted website using SQL Server 2005 with a localhost installation using SQL Server Express.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Setup, Comparing Databases, Viewing Data
• Video 2 - Editing the local installation and comparing with the live installation
• Video 3 - Synching local database to live and live to local
• Video 4 - Synching multiple simultaneous edits on live and local installations

Total Time Length: 33mins

In this tutorial we demonstrate how you can enable additional users without the administrator security role, access to the pages from the DotNetNuke admin menu.

There are many times when you may want to give a user who edits the content of your site access to the 'Pages’ or ‘Newsletters’ menu items, but at the same time, you may not wish to give them any further access to the admin menu, such as access to the ‘Site Settings’.

In this tutorial we outline how you can give users additional rights to access individual pages from the admin menu.

Time Length: 11mins

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use and create page templates in DotNetNuke. Page templates allow you to add modules, data, and configuration settings to a page when you first create a new page.

This is a fantastic time saving tool, for instance if you have certain modules that you regularly need to add to a page, you can do this automatically with a page template. If you have content in a Text / HTML module that you always use as a starting point, you can have default content added to a module through a page template.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, default page template, code explanation
• Video 2 - The simple method for creating a page template
• Video 3 - Completing your first page template
• Video 4 - A complex page template with multiple modules

Total Time Length: 32mins

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

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

Total Time Length: 19min

In this video tutorial we demonstrate working with the site logs and event logs in DotNetNuke. We first of all demonstrate how to view the logs and we then progress onto how to manage the logs and prevent them from growing to a large size using the scheduler.

This is an essential configuration for all DotNetNuke portals because if you do not configure the logs correctly they can grow to such a large size that your hosting provider may shut down your site until you fix the problem.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Site logs and event logs, viewing and configuration
• Video 2 – Event logs maintenance
• Video 3 – Automatically and manually deleting logs, fixing and preventing errors

Total Time Length: 34mins

As a Host Super User you have a variety of configuration options available, ranging from assigning which modules are available to each portal, through to configuring the site log, disk space, and file types allowed, as well as many other options.

The videos walk you through each of these elements, covering:

• Video 1 – Introduction, Deleting Portals, Module Management
• Video 2 – Configuring Portals

Total Time Length: 15mins

Managing and Configuring Portals as a Host Super User

Portal Templates allow you to export a template of a DotNetNuke portal. A template includes the pages, modules, skins and containers used within the DotNetNuke portal.

Templates can be useful for:

• Transferring data from one DotNetNuke installation to another
• Creating default content for a portal

All of these elements are explained step by step in the video.

DotNetNuke Portal Templates and the Site Wizard

We walk you through the processes required for adding a portal to a live DotNetNuke website. This covers creating a parent portal using a domain and sub-domain name, as well as creating a child portal.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 – Introduction, creating a parent portal
• Video 2 – Administering and configuring the portals
• Video 3 – Creating a sub-domain parent portal and a child portal

Total Time Length: 25mins

How to create DotNetNuke Portals (Parent and Child)

The portal system in DotNetNuke is one of its most powerful features. In this article we outline how the DotNetNuke portal system works and how it can save you money on your hosting bills.

We cover:

• Standard Hosting Method
• DotNetNuke Multiple Portal Method
• DotNetNuke Portals, Parent and Child
• Administration of Portals
• Host control: Premium modules, skins, disk space

DotNetNuke and Multiple Portals