I have recently discovered the HTML Setting that allows for replacement of tokens in version HTML_04.07.00_Install.zip.




I can get the following TOKENS to work

• [USERisplayName] renders the user's display name
• [PORTALescription] renders the portal's description text
• [TABescription] renders the current tab's description text
• [MEMBERSHIP:LastLoginDate] renders the user's last login datetime
• [Profile:Biography] renders the richtext from the user's Biography profile option

Does anyone know where I can get more resources on this topic?
If you know more tokens I could use please post them in a reply.



EXAMPLE USE

User based color themes

I created a Profile Property named theme of type "list" with three options (red, green, blue)

In the settings for an text/html module, I ticked the Replace Tokens option and clicked update.
In the source view for the text html module I included something like this: 
<div class="[PROFILE:Theme]"> content goes here </div>

The token is replaced with the profile data specific to the logged in user, the div is assigned a class name of whatever the value of the user's Theme profile option (red, green, blue)

Then I created CSS rules for the options I selected in the profile...

In the portal.css file I added the following:
.red { color: red} .green { color: green } .blue { color: blue }

So if I set my Theme profile to red, the text in the module will render as red.

Pretty Neat!

Mitchel Sellers has a blog entry about the replaceable tokens here.  One of the comments tells you how to find a list of tokens in, of all places, the settings for the User Defined Table module.

I haven't explored this issue in great detail, but your use of a profile entry to specify a class is really clever!

Here is the complete list (I've edited in spaces between the colon and the text so that they won't be interpreted/displayed as emoticons):

Token	Description
[Portal: Currency]	Currency String
[Portal: Description]	Portal Description
[Portal: Email]	Portal Admin Email
[Portal: FooterText]	Portal Copyright Text
[Portal: HomeDirectory]	Portal (relative) Path of Home Directory
[Portal: LogoFile]	Portal Path to Logo file
[Portal: PortalName]	Portal Name
[Portal: PortalAlias]	Portal URL
[Portal: TimeZoneOffset]	Difference in minutes between Portal default time and UTC
[User: DisplayName]	User’s Display Name
[User: Email]	User’s Email Address
[User: FirstName]	User’s First Name
[User: FullName]	[deprecated]
[User: LastName]	User’s Last Name
[User: Username]	User’s Login User Name
[Membership: Approved]	Is User Approved?
[Membership: CreatedDate]	User Signup Date
[Membership: IsOnline]	Is User Currently Online?
[Profile: property]	Use any default or custom Property defined for user profiles as listed in Profile Property Definition section of Manage User Accounts. Please use non-localized Property titles only.
[Tab: Description]	Page Description Text for Search Engine
[Tab: EndDate]	Page Display Until Date
[Tab: FullUrl]	Page Full URL
[Tab: IconFile]	Page Relative Path to Icon file
[Tab: KeyWords]	Page Keywords for Search Engine
[Tab: PageHeadText]	Page Header Text
[Tab: StartDate]	Page Display from Date
[Tab: TabName]	Page Name
[Tab: TabPath]	Page Relative Path
[Tab: Title]	Page Title (Window Title)
[Tab: URL]	Page URL
[Module: Description]	Module Definition Description
[Module: EndDate]	Module Display Until Date
[Module: Footer]	Module Footer Text
[Module: FriendlyName]	Module Definition Name
[Module: Header]	Module Header Text
[Module: HelpUrl]	Module Help URL
[Module: IconFile]	Module Path to Icon File
[Module: ModuleTitle]	Module Title
[Module: PaneName]	Module Name of Pane where UDT resides
[Module: StartDate]	Module Display from Date
[DateTime: Now]	Current Date and Time
[Ticks: Now]	CPU Tick Count for Current Second
[Ticks: Today]	CPU Tick Count since Midnight
[Ticks: TicksPerDay]	CPU Ticks per Day (for calculations)

Thanks for your feedback.

There is also support for TOKENS in the Newsletter/BulkEmail Module...
http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community...fault.aspx

I would like to use this replacement method in a major project that involves Variable Data Printing (VDP), mail marketing, and personal web pages. The goal is to provide clients with reports and data from the marketing campaigne.

Printing on each piece of mail is personalize content, which includes a personal url where the recipient could go and give feedback or to access services or coupons, or what ever. This information is printed on a mail piece (post card, etc...) and mailied via USPS.

If anyone has any ideas, I would love to hear them.

Hello,

The tokens have been set up so that you can place them in any module. While I was at Las Vegas I interviewed Sebastian Leupold who looks after the UDT module and tokens code and had a good chat with him covering these elements, so if you need tips on implementing the tokens within a module it could be worth asking details in the UDT module project forum.

Let us know how you get on and post any examples of code if you get them,

Thanks,

A couple more tokens not listed above that work okay in 4.7.0 newsletters:
[Host: HostTitle]
[Portal: PortalName]
[Date: Current] in addition to [DateTime: Now] (remove spaces after colons)

I can't use Tokens in Text/HTML yet, as after upgrading to DNN 4.7.0, the Text/HTML module is still version 04.05.00 and I can’t see HTML_04.07.00_Install.zip on Sourceforge?

Jeff

You need to configure each instance of the Text/HTML module to use the token replacements. That is in the Settings menu for the page.

Jeff,

I had the same problem. When upgrading to 4.07.00, the html module is not included. I had to download the install package and grab the PA from the install/modules/ folder. I simply installed the module over top of the existing installation.

Thanks ImageSmith. Much appreciated.

BTW, module installation threw up an error at stage "executing 4.6.0 SqlDataProvider" (invalid object name 'dnn_Modules'). However, Tokens in Text/HTML seem to be working okay? I don't know if the error means future instabilities are likely - too much of a newbie.

Hi All,

I have added some new fields to the portal and need to pull the info they collect into the receipt email that Catalook shopping cart sends. Can anyone tell me the proper token? The new fields are Score, Clubs, and Allergies. I have tried using [Profile:Score] and {Profile:Score} formats and they dont work. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thank you
Paul

You should be using the square brackets.

Just a guess, but have you enabled token replacement for the module?   It is a setting available in the module settings page.

There is any token or way to show in the HTML module the last content modified date?

I have seen a module (check Snowcovered) that will display the last modified date for all of the content on a page.  I don't think that there is a token.

Hello,

Some time ago I needed a lot more from tokens and ended up writing my own module which ended up as a commercial module, MyTokens. Today it supports creating tokens from Database, local files, files on FTP Servers, HTTP Requests, POP3 and IMAP Servers.

With MyTokens, you can accomplish what you need by creating a database token that retrieves the relevant field from Html table in the database. You would have to pass in the module id, so the SQL query for the token would look like Select ModifiedDate from Html Where ModuleID=[Module:ModuleID]. Then, you would put [MyNamespace:MyTokenName] in the content of the html module and will get replaced with date last modified.

You can read more about MyTokens and download a trial version at http://www.avatar-soft.ro/Products/...fault.aspx

Please let me know if you need more info.

Regards,
Bogdan

If I want to add businesslogic to the Token Replace enginge inside dotnetnuke and mostly in hte Html/text module. Do I have to recompile the Html/Text moduleto make a new version of it OR is there a way to override that particular token Replace method inside and let a new Token REplace method execute without recompiling the Html/Text module?

If that is possible andI can put the new business logic for Html/text module token Replace in another dll then I don'trisk having thisparticular business logic disapear as soon as Dotnetnuke core is updated .....

Can I putmy new Token replace logic in a separate dll andhavethisoneexecuted everytime html/Text module is used WIHTOUT recompiling the Html/Text module?

You might want to take a look at the MyTokens module referenced in this thread.  I have not used this particular module, but I have used a couple of other modules from Avatar Software.  Those modules do what I need, and Avatar's support is good.

Question: when using tokens, is there any way to have it intelligently replace itself depending on if a user is logged in or not? I don't like having an extra space in text for [User:FirstName] to render properly and then have this space show up for the not-logged-in state. Surely this was thought of during the development of the token rendering? Thanks for any tips, drew..

No.  Unfortunately not.  You might want to look at Joe Brinkman's recent blog entry on "Extending the Blog Module" or a similar  le.  Look in the blog section at dotnetnuke.com.

You could have two modules, one for logged in visitors and one for those not logged in.

It may be possible to include conditional coding in the HTML version of the module contents.  Something like this:

 < %  If Request.IsAuthenticated Then% >
             
         put your code here ...

 < % End If% >

(removed the spaces around the brackets)

hi,

I was wondering if there would be some global tokens that could be retrieved from the user info (once they enter it) such as name, last name, telephone number, email, address, etc.. I need to use this info on a module that allows me to send or receive emails according to a pre stablished html template (where the tokens would go).

To Make things clearer: User James Bond register in my page, this information goes to our data base (name, lastname, phone, address, email), then, through a module I want to be able to retrieve this information using tokens inserted on an html template, for emailing purposes and such.. is this possible at all?

Thanks!!

If you are doing this in the Text/HTML module, you need to enable token replacement, and then there are lots of tokens defined that you can use.

If you are doing this in a custom module, just use the userInfo object.

If neither of these is what you need, ask again.

Hi Joseph,

Thanks for your quick answer; we're not using the Text/HTML module, rather the Events module (that comes with Dnn) this is where, inside the e-mail templates option, we want to be able to insert these tokens into the email templates.. I've tried using what you suggested without succes... is there anyway to make this work?

Thanks again!

There is a list of tokens here: http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Community...fault.aspx

There may be others. For a definitive answer, I'd suggest that you ask at the DotNetNuke.com forum for the Events Module.

Hi Joseph, and thanks,

I tried using the tokens but there's no token replacement option on the module.
The specific module is the EVENTS module that comes with DNN, I'm trying to insert the tokens in the Event email templates, as I mentioned, there's no token replacement and the defined tokens won't seem to work either.. what is it that I'm might be missing here.. is this even possible??

Thanks in advance

There is a set of tokens that are specific to the Events module.

For really good help with the Events module, I do recommend that you also visit the Events Module forum at dotnetnuke.com. The team responsible for that module seems to be one of the best and is quite helpful.

Is it (and how) possible to display tokens in an HTML (best) or REPORT or FnL module for (admin only) to view any UserID?

In other words, I'm trying to let an admin view all the Profile Properties for any registered user, by the TOKENS only show the currently logged in user - not any other User's data.

I know I can use the User Profile Properties Template to display this but the template is limited to 4000 characters even after changing the default database field limits from 2000. This means I can only display 1/5th of the fields. So I've tried everything I can think of.

Your pointers?

Hi, how about for UserId? is there a token for it?

No, there doesn't seem to be one. This complete list of tokens is at http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources...kens.aspx.

But, what are you wanting to do? Perhaps there is another way.

In My Tokens [User:UserId] is available out of the box.
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Excellent!

(I haven't used that particular module, but I have used other modules made by DnnShart. They have really good support, too.)