I am new to DNN. I am a .NET web developer by trade and I am having a very difficult time understanding DNN and all that goes on "behind the scenes". With that being said, even as a .NET web developer, I have had limited experience using iFrames - so, right now, I am totally double wammied!!

My client has a page that they would like to migrate to DNN. The page is at https://www.mywipit.com/Support/FindLocations.aspx. Now, what really needs to happen here is that the form on the left hand side of the page needs to be migrated to DNN because the client wants the ability to add/edit fields on this form. I have no idea why but this is the request.

All the content to the left of the form, which include the map and the table of results, will stay "within" their site. They are going to create a page for me that will only contain the map and the table below the map that display the locations.

So, I have a page on my DNN site at http://wipit.soltechdemo.com/Reload...tions.aspx and I used an iFrame Module to pull in the page that contains the map/table that will remain on their site. Currently, I am pulling in the whole page because I have not asked them to created this "new" page for me with just the map/table. I am trying to figure out if I can even do this before I ask them to do any work on their end.

I have absolutely no idea where to go from here. I know I need to create a form on this DNN page that contains 'address', 'city', 'state', 'zip' and 'search within' fields and then I need to somehow get the values entered into these field passed to the page embedded in the iFrame and have it refreshed with the results.

I have used XMod Pro and I believe we have a license but I don't know how to "redirect" to the iFrame.

I also see that the IFrame module contains "Query Strings" that I can setup but I can't find anything googling around that really explains how these can be used.

Only thing I really know how to do is control the iframe from the parent page in ASP.NET using javascript. But I don't really have a concept of a parent page in DNN. Nor, do I actually see an < iframe > tag when I view the source code for the DNN page I created so how could I even begin to manipulate this using javascript anyway.

Please help!!!

Nicole,

And iframe is something that can be used to incorporate the contents of an external web page into one of your pages. You can do this outside of DotNetNuke, too.

Here's a question that will help me: if you had the address, city, state, etc. ... how would you use it to get the right map?

You can certainly build the little form into a DotNetNuke page. You can do it with the HTML module if you are careful and remember that it can't be an actual "form" since a DotNetNuke page already is a form. Instead, you can use the input tags and have a submit "button" that calls some javascript or jQuery to collect the data and build the string that you will need to "post" to the external site. Perhaps this is the basis for the URL plus querystring parameters that control what is shown in the iframe.

The querystring parameters can be used to pass data to the page that is shown in the iframe.

Here's another answer: if you know how to build an ASP.NET page to do what you want, you can certainly do it in DotNetNuke. At some point, it might make more sense to build a custom module to do the work. That's not necessarily as hard a thing to do as it might seem at first. You could also use the DotNetNuke RazorHost module to build a razor script to do it. With that, you have more programmatic control over things.

So, if you tell me a bit more about the way the map thing works, I may be able to give you some more specific advice.