Hello. I'm working on a site which requires a certain functionality, 90% of which can be provided by the core Repository module. I want to add new functionality inclusing searchable keywords, a "Published" date field and be able to filter the documents based on the Published date. I'm a fairly competent .Net developer and would be able to create this functionality outside of DotNetNuke fairly easily. However I'm struggling to find a resource (tutorial or walk-through) that shows me how to modify and implement changes for a core module? Does anyone have any tips or pointers towards any such resources. I've found lots of "How to create a new module..." but I want  a "How to modify...".

So far I've downloaded the source code for the repository project and tried to open it in Visual Studio and there were missing files. I found a Resources.zip file within the source folder which seemed to include those missing files so I extracted them and then opened the solution. It won't build though, it seems to be missing a lot of references.

Basically I'm not sure what to do here so any help would be mush appreciated. In the mean time I'll keep searching...

Thanks,
James.

There is a tutorial here that shows how to do some modification to the Blog Module.  You should be able to use the same techniques.

MIchael Washington has some nice tutorials on module development here.  There are also some tutorials at DNNWiki.

What you'll need to do is to set up a development environment that includes a copy of DotNetNuke installed so that you can open and debug it with Visual Studio or Visual Web Developer Express.  Then, with DNN running, you can install the Repository Module and begin to modify it's code.  When you've got thing running the way that you need, you can then extract the modified Repository, package it in a zip file, and install it on your test site.

I see that you got a much more specific answer at the DNN Forum.

On looking at the Repository project, it looks like a fairly extensive re-write is in the works. It might be useful to ask about the timing of the 4.x release of Repository. From the description of the wish list, it looks like the developers are addressing the kinds of changes that you are looking for.

For anyone interested this question was answered in the DNN forum.

http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community...fault.aspx