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DotNetMushroom Rapid Application Developer (RAD) is a new application builder for DotNetNuke. It was launched at OpenForce Europe this year. The scope of DNM RAD is to allow a user or developer to build an application which is made up of tables, queries, and forms.

This is a quick start guide to using DNM RAD. In this article we demonstrate how to create a table for news items, create a form to insert or edit news records, and display the results in another form.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an iPhone application for DotNetNuke using OWS. We show you how to detect the iPhone and send the user to a custom page which displays data from various modules across the DotNetNuke portal.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, How to Detect the iPhone and Redirect it to an iPhone Compatible Page
• Video 2 - How to Add Links to Use iPhone Apps, Create Main Menu, Configure Fetching Data Message
• Video 3 - How to Display Content from the Links module to the iPhone
• Video 4 - Testing and How to Display Content from the Announcements module

Total Time Length: 35min 30secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an email form using Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to build the email form, how to create the logic for sending the form, as well as how to attach a file to an email and how to validate the email when it is sent to ensure deliverability.

The video contains:

• Introduction
• How to create the email form module
• How to link the module to the SendEmail configuration
• How to remove the automated templates that are not required
• How to add a HTML form to the 'No Query' template
• How to build the logic for the Send Email form
• Creating the email content to send logic
• Creating the email attachment logic
• How to setup an action variable to test if the email was successful and display a message
• Testing the Send Email form

Time Length: 11min 53secs

In this tutorial we add some cool features to our OWS Knowledge Base Article module, this covers social networking and working with APIs and web services.

Including: Send This to a Friend email, AddThis social bookmarks, Facebook Share API, integrating Yahoo! answers API. These are powerful techniques to enhance your OWS Modules.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - How to Build an 'Email to a Friend' function
• Video 2 - How to Add Social BookMarks with AddThis and Share on Facebook
• Video 3 - How to Display and Search Yahoo Answers via their API

Total Time Length: 34min 21secs

In this free tutorial we demonstrate how to install a standard module to DotNetNuke 5.

There are many modules available to extend the functionality of your DotNetNuke website, some of the modules require you to purchase them from websites, such as snowcovered.com and there are also many free modules available as well.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to install a module using the Install Extensions method and also how to auto install a module using FTP.

The video contains:

• Video 1 - How to Install a Module in DotNetNuke 5

Time Length: 11min 16secs

This tutorial demonstrates Debugging, Enhanced Reporting, Importing Records and Scheduling in Open Web Studio.

We begin the tutorial by demonstrating how to debug your OWS application using the built in OWS tools. This covers how to debug form variables, session variables, SQL queries, and troubleshooingt problems.

Next we enhance the reporting page that we built in episode 4 provide a facility to export your report to Microsoft Excel CSV files and HTML formatted Word documents.

Following this we enhance the Knowledgebase Manager so that it can import records from a CSV file, this allows you to automatically import multiple knowledgebase articles simultaneously.

To finish, we demonstrate how to schedule your OWS configuration using the DotNetNuke Scheduler. We demonstrate how to setup a query which executes each day and checks for any articles that have a pending status.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Debugging, Form Variable Troubleshooting
• Video 2 - Debugging Session Variables and SQL Queries
• Video 4 - How to Upload New Knowledge Base Articles Using a CSV File
• Video 5 - How to Use the DotNetNuke Scheduler with OWS

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