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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 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 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

The FCK Editor allows you to customize which toolbar buttons are available for use, this is called a toolbar set. In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create your own custom toolbar sets in the FCK Editor and how you can assign different toolbar sets to various security roles.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - How to Create a Custom Toolbar Set
• Video 2 - How to Set Security Role Access for the FCK Editor toolbars
• Video 3 - How to Check Toolbar Access for Security Roles

Total Time Length: 24mins

This tutorial demonstrates some of the further configuration options available within the FCK editor.

We walk you through some of the additional configuration options that are available to use in your DotNetNuke installations. These additional options will also provide you with the knowledge for researching and configuring any additional FCK editor options.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - FCK Editor, ‘Other Editor Options’, Further Configurations
• Video 2 - Advanced Configuration Options using the FCKConfig.js file

Total Time Length: 13mins

This tutorial demonstrates how to configure the content area in the FCK Editor to display the same text styles as your skin.css file.

Configuring the FCK Editor in this way makes it easier to edit the content in your site and ensure that it is correctly styled.

The tutorial shows how to solve problems such as unreadable text when editing with skins that have a dark background colour, as well as how to style the Link Gallery, Image Gallery and Custom Options FCK Editor pages.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Configuring the Default Editor Display Mode
• Video 2 - Fixing Text Display Problems, Creating a Custom FCK Body ID
• Video 3 - Styling the Image Gallery, Link Gallery, Custom Options FCK Editor Pages
• Video 4 - Configuring an Instance, Module or Portal FCK Editor Display Mode

Total Time Length: 31mins

This tutorial shows how to change the skin of the FCK Editor.

The tutorial demonstrates how to download a new FCK Editor skin and upload it to your DotNetNuke portal. We then show you how to edit the web.config file settings to allow the new skin to be selected within the FCK Editor. Finally we demonstrate how to apply the new skin to the FCK Editor in DotNetNuke.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Uploading FCK Skins, Making the Skins Available
• Video 2 - Applying the FCK Editor Skin to the DotNetNuke Portal

Total Time Length: 13mins

This tutorial outlines the functions in the FCK Editor Toolbar.

The tutorial shows how each of the FCK Editor Toolbar functions work, ranging from basic text editing, such as copy and paste techniques, through to creating various types of links such as anchor links. All options in the toolbar are demonstrated including the advanced functions for each button. This tutorial also comes with a PDF document which outlines all of the keyboard shortcuts used within the FCK editor.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, FCK Editor Basics, Toolbar buttons
• Video 2 - Copy and Paste Functions, Removing Formatting
• Video 3 - Text Formatting, Lists, Indents Text Alignment, Links
• Video 4 - Working with Links
• Video 5 - Working with Links and Images
• Video 6 - Working with Images, Flash and Tables
• Video 7 - Working with Tables, Insert, Formatting Text

Total Time Length: 54mins

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use the SQL core DotNetNuke module.

This module is only available to the host user on your DotNetNuke installation and it allows you to execute SQL queries and scripts from within your DotNetNuke installation.

Although we thoroughly recommend you use SQL Server to build and check your queries, the DotNetNuke SQL module is useful if you already have a good understanding of using SQL within your DotNetNuke installation.

The video covers:

• Introduction
• How to access the DotNetNuke SQL Module
• Overview of the SQL Module
• How to load a SQL file into the DotNetNuke SQL Module
• How to edit and execute a SQL query in the DotNetNuke SQL Module

Time length: 5mins