I have a page on 3 languages and use [CURRENTDATE] object. On english it shows in characters days of the week (ex. Monday, Tuesday..) but when I change on other languages, it disappears. Where and how I can solve this?

Second question is about search bar. I use [SEARCH] object in my skin and have 2 pages where would be nice to have different length of search text box.  I was thinking to solve this somehow by css class or to have two objects [SEARCH:1] and [SEARCH:2]?

Thanks,
Ivan

Hey Ivan:

The second question first. Yes, you can use css to create different search box styles. I assume these would be on different pages, right?

As to the first issue, have you asked this on the DNN forums? I know, the moderated style makes it harder to get answers, but it's quite possible you have a bug in DNN. What version of dnn are you using? There's also a site that lists all the current issues in DNN (accessible from the DNN site). You could go there and see if this is a known issue. Either way, the folks in the DNN forums would have more expertise on this kind of issue, than I do. Can't speak for anyone else. But if the date just disappears, it could be one of two things:

1. There's a resx file that has the date format for English, but not for other languages. This is why it's 'blank' when you switch languages. You have to find the .resx file and add date formats for the add'l languages. I don't recall if this is explained in the DNN docs or not.

2. It could also be a bug, though I'm very wary of assuming this, since the DNN core people are from many different countries themselves and it seems like this is something they would notice, especially since most of the world uses the day month year format instead of the English month day year format...

Hope this helps...

Yes, search box would be on different pages and it must be different lenght. Example:
page 1 -> width: 150px;
page 2 -> width: 130px;

I only need different width of the search box. In skin.xml file object [SEARCH] use CssClass Search, but found that I can only manage "width" of the search box with CssClass NormalTextBox. CssClass Search has influence only with search link. I tried to experiment with all this with no luck.

I use DNN 4.4.1 and found that different languages or different languages packs have different format styles, so it can't be a bug. Now, the question is where can I change those formats and how. Is it prebuild in DNN or you can spacify format in language pack and configure it in there?

You can go to link and view all this things.

Sorry, wrong link.

This link works: link

ok, I would try this for the search boxes.

In your XML file create 2 separate search tokens using [SEARCH:1] and [SEARCH:2]

DNN will assign to these a different id. If you use the Web Developers Toolbar with Firefox, go to the Information menu and display 'ID and Class details'

Here you will see for instance in the DNN Blue skin that the class associated with styling the text of the search box is:
.SkinObject

and the class associated with the textbox is:
.NormalTextBox

If you set the class details for .NormalTextBox this will affect all text boxes using this class, so if you look closer, you will see that DNN has assigned an id to this textbox named:
#dnn_dnnSEARCH_txtSearch .NormalTextBox

So if you create a class using the following code you will be able to adjust the width of just the search text box:

#dnn_dnnSEARCH_txtSearch.NormalTextBox
{
width: 200px;
}

- So after creating your 2 search tokens view the ids that DNN creates and you should be able to specify a different width for each of your tokens.

I'm not up to speed with the variations in the language packs, so it could be worth looking at the main dotnetnuke forum. - Let us know if you find an answer.

Thanks,

PS. This tutorial outlines the techniques i used to find a solution:
Troubleshooting DotNetNuke Skins

Wow, this hint helps a lot. Not just for this thing. Thanks!
I watched this magazine videos (in fact, I watched all magazines) but didn't come with this.

Not to open a new topic, do you know, or anybody else, how to implement  Geo Ip like that on www.maxmind.com with DNN? Is anybody done that and how it works?