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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

This tutorial demonstrates the actual coding process when building modules with Open Web Studio.

While Quickbuilder is a great "getting started" tool, it does not provide the understanding necessary to build and customize modules to specific requirements. In this tutorial we dissect and manually build the module to get a full understanding of building a query, using AJAX calls and other OWS actions, and formatting the results so that you can build your own modules.

This is Part 2 of the series and covers:

• Video 1 - Introduction, How to Create a Region, Template and Query
• Video 2 - How to Display the Query Results in a Table
• Video 3 - Debugging, Adding an Edit Link
• Video 4 - Secure SQL and the Detail Edit Template
• Video 5 - Update, Add and Delete Records

This tutorial demonstrates how to use OnyakTech’s SigmaLive (Live Chat) module.

The SigmaLive module provides Live Chat functionality for your DotNetNuke website, allowing you to engage in a 1-to-1 chat with your website visitors in real-time. It allows you to instantly provide live help, live support, visitor tracking, and proactive sales for your products and services.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction and Installation
• Video 2 - Configuring Sigma Live PopUp as a Chat Room and Images to Display
• Video 3 - Further Configuration Options in SigmaLive
• Video 4 - Installing and Configuring the SigmaLive Windows Client
• Video 5 - How to Use the SigmaLive Windows Client

Total Time Length: 42min 12secs

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DNN Stuff’s Aggregator Module.

This module acts as a tabbed container or can also be used as a localization container for one or more modules, allowing you to combine several modules together from a page into a tabbed interface.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Configuration
• Video 2 - How to Add Modules Into The Aggregator
• Video 3 - Further Configuration Options with Tabs and Modules
• Video 4 - Style Settings, Linking Several Aggregator Modules
• Video 5 - Displaying RSS Feeds in the Aggregator
• Video 6 - Styling and Working with Templates in Aggregator

Total Time Length: 57min 17secs

This tutorial demonstrates downloading and installing OWS, adding and configuring the module on a page, opening and reviewing the key components of the OWS Administration development environment and building your first Master-Detail-Edit form using the OWS Quickbuilder utility.

The series will take the viewer through six episodes, where at the end the viewer will have a fully functional Technical Knowledge Base application.

This is Part 1 of the series and covers:

• Video 1 - Introduction and Initial Configuration
• Video 2 - Actions and Tools
• Video 3 - How to Create Actions with Master / Detail / Edit Configuration

Total Time Length: 27min 25secs

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DataSprings Opt In Email Newsletter Module.

DataSprings Opt In Email Module has a lot of the features you would expect from signing up to a third party Email Service Provider (ESP). In some cases this module offers more functions than you would normally receive from a thrid party ESP.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, How to Create an Opt In Email List
• Video 2 - Module Configuration
• Video 3 - Testing, Control Panel - Dashboard, Manage Subscribers, Opt In Lists, Extended Fields, List Import
• Video 4 - Simple Opt In Module, Previous Newsletters Module, Advanced Email Module
• Video 5 - Advanced Email Module Settings, Newsletter Configuration, Distribution, Email Images
• Video 6 - Advanced Email Module Newsletter Configuration, Bounceback Settings
• Video 7 - Advanced Email Module Tracking
• Video 8 - Link Tracking and Reports
• Video 9 - Advanced Email Module - Email Campaigns
• Video 10 - Email Campaign Reports, List Cleanup

Total Time Length: 83min 16secs