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This tutorial shows how to work with data in the DataSprings Dynamic Forms module.
We show you:
- How to view the data that the Dynamic Forms module captures
- How to setup a message to display when a user clicks on the submit button
- How to import and export forms that you have created into other Dynamic Forms Modules
The Import / Export feature is very useful as it allows you to reuse forms you have previously created for other projects.
Before viewing this tutorial, make sure that you watch the Dynamic Forms Quick Start Guide.
The videos contain:
- Video 1 - Introduction, Submit Button, Submit Message
- Video 2 - Managing Captured Data, Importing and Exporting Forms
Total Time Length: 13min 21secs
This article sets out some key guidelines for creating forms.
By taking into consideration the tips outlined in this article you can plan and create a form just how you originally conceived it.
If forms are not planned out properly from the conceptual stage they can easily evolve and become complicated. Over complicated forms can reduce the users interest drastically, thus damaging your chances of obtaining the information you require.
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This tutorial walks you through how to create a favicon from scratch, how to create a favicon from an existing image and how to attach the favicon.ico file to your DotNetNuke website.
Favicons are a good way to make your site stand out from a long list of bookmarked pages. If your website has a logo, you should be using it to the best of its potential and placing your branding wherever possible. Favcons make your pages easier to find in bookmark listings and browser tabs, and you give your customers a familiar image to look for.
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This is a special 34 page resource to help you learn how to use colors within CSS when designing your DotNetNuke skins.
The Color Reference Guide has been designed to give you a better idea of how the different color systems work, how to use the Hex Triplet system and the 3 character Hex CSS Shorthand.
This book comes in pdf format so you can easily refer back to it at your leisure.
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This tutorial demonstrates a method for quickly adding large amounts of data into a DotNetNuke module. The module in this example is the core Documents module.
Throughout the tutorial we walk you through the methods used for investigating how to add large amounts of data into the Documents module so that you can adapt these methods to add content to other modules.
The videos contain:
- Video 1 - Introduction, Initial Demonstration with Documents Module
- Video 2 - Testing, Errors and Link Tracking Tables
- Video 3 - Creating an Excel file of Data for the Documents Module
- Video 4 - Copying the Data from Excel to SQL Server, Testing, Adding Files
Total Time Length: 40mins
This tutorial shows you how to setup the authentication settings in DotNetNuke.
The authentication settings cover the various configuration options available for the Login Page of DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to enable CAPTCHA in the standard DotNetNuke login page, as well as how to setup the login using Windows LiveID and OpenID.
The videos cover:
- Video 1 - Introduction, CAPTCHA, Windows LiveID Application
- Video 2 - How to Setup and Test Windows LiveID Login in DotNetNuke
- Video 3 - How to enable a LiveID Register Link, Configuring OpenID
- Video 4 - How to configure OpenID in DotNetNuke
- Video 5 - How to create an OpenID signup page
Total Time Length: 40mins
This tutorial demonstrates how to setup the DotNetNuke Core Search.
We walk you through configuring the DotNetNuke Core Search step by step, beginning with how to ensure that DotNetNuke indexes your website, the content that it should index and how to schedule a regular index of your website.
The videos contain:
- Video 1 - Using the DNN Core Search, Re-indexing Content
- Video 2 - Increasing Search Effectiveness, Configuring the Search Results Module
- Video 3 - Configuring the DotNetNuke Search Skin Object, Google AdSense Affiliate ID’s
- Video 4 - Configuring the Search Skin Object, Configuring the Search Input Module
Total Time Length: 32min
This tutorial outlines how to setup a Podcast website using DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how we setup the podcasts on dotnetnukepodcast.com right through to submitting your podcast to the iTunes store.
The videos contain:
- Video 1 - Dotnetnukepodcast.com, Configuring the Ventrian News Articles Module
- Video 2 - Feedburner.com, Creating an RSS feed
- Video 3 - Promoting the RSS feed using the iTunes Player
Total Time Length: 22min
This tutorial demonstrates how you can use the styles drop down list in the FCK editor to format the text.
Using the styles drop down list allows you to quickly apply CSS classes from your skin.css file and should help to ensure that administrators do not use bad practices for styling text, such as using font tags.
The videos contain:
- Video 1 - Styling the Background of the Style Dropdown List in the FCK Editor
- Video 2 - List of Available Styles for the FCK Editor
- Video 3 - Dynamic Styles in the FCK Editor
- Video 4 - How to Create Custom Styles
- Video 5 - Creating Class Styles in the Style Dropdown List
- Video 6 - How to Customise Block Quotes with Different Classes
Total Time Length: 48mins
This tutorial demonstrates how to create your own HTML templates for the FCK Editor in DotNetNuke.
HTML templates are really useful for adding repetitive content into a page; they can give you a starting point when adding content to the page, you do not need to start from scratch, you can simply select a template as a starting point and then edit the content within the template. This will help to reduce errors created by content editors.
The videos contain:
- Video 1 - Introduction, the FCKtemplates.xml file
- Video 2 - How to Create a Custom HTML Template
Total Time Length: 16mins