DOTNETNUKE: FUNDAMENTALS AND APPLICATIONS
FOOLISH ASSUMPTIONS HOW TO USE THIS BOOK CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS BOOK A NOTE ON THE DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF DNN HOW THIS BOOK IS ORGANIZED PART I: DRAWING FROM THE DOTNETNUKE POWER SOURCE PART II: PUTTING THE POWER OF DOTNETNUKE TO WORK PART III: JUMPING TO LIGHT SPEED WITH DOTNETNUKE PART IV: GETTING UNDER THE HOOD PART V: THE PART OF TENS ICONS USED IN THIS BOOK DOTNETNUKE IS MORE THAN WEB PUBLISHING DNN IS COMMUNITY REGISTERED USERS: MEMBERS AND NON-MEMBERS OF YOUR WEB SITE SECURITY ROLES: SORTING YOUR MEMBERS INTO GROUPS DNN IS CONTENT DNN WEB PAGES DNN MODULES A DESIGNER’S DELIGHT DNN IS COLLABORATION SPECIAL ROLES: ADMINISTRATOR AND HOST ROLES LOGGING IN TO YOUR DNN WEB SITE CHANGING YOUR LOGIN CREDENTIALS DNN SERVES APPLICATIONS, NOT JUST ONLINE BROCHURES DNN GIVES YOU N FOR THE PRICE OF 1 PLUG IN TO OPEN SOURCE YES, IT’S FREE! BASED ON MICROSOFT MUSCLE A THRIVING COMMUNITY FINDING HELP ONLY A HYPERLINK AWAY MAKING DECISIONS ABOUT YOUR DNN INSTALLATION WHICH FILE DO I DOWNLOAD? CHOOSING A WEB HOST GETTING DOTNETNUKE TO YOUR SERVER SETTING UP IIS FOR DOTNETNUKE CREATING A WEB SITE IN IIS MANAGER CONFIGURING YOUR WEB SITE IN IIS MANAGER SETTING UP THE DATABASE CREATING A NEW DATABASE IN MICROSOFT SQL SERVER 2000 MICROSOFT SQL SERVER USERS AND ACCESS PERMISSIONS SQL SERVER 2005 EXPRESS PREINSTALLATION CONFIGURATION THE WEB CONFIG FILE ADJUSTING THE CONNECTION STRING GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THE MACHINE KEY DOTNETNUKE AUTOMATED INSTALLATION MONITORING YOUR INSTALLATION COMPLETING YOUR DOTNETNUKE INSTALLATION INSTALLING DOTNETNUKE WITH CONTROL PANELS COMMON CONTROL PANEL BENEFITS COMMON CONTROL PANEL DRAWBACKS TROUBLESHOOTING YOUR INSTALLATION CONFIGURATION ERRORS OBJECT REFERENCE ERROR DATABASE CONNECTION ERRORS CHANGING SETTINGS TO ADAPT TO YOUR NEEDS SETTING THE HOST DETAILS SETTING THE SMTP SERVER SETTINGS ENABLING FRIENDLY URLS SETTING AUTO-UNLOCK OF ACCOUNTS INSTALLING MODULES AND ASSIGNING THEM TO PORTALS INSTALLING THE MODULES INCLUDED WITH YOUR DNN APPLICATION INSTALLING NEW MODULES SETTING PREMIUM MODULES AND ASSIGNING THEM TO PORTALS SETTING GLOBAL PREFERENCES FOR NEW PORTALS SETTING THE DEFAULT APPEARANCE FOR NEW PORTALS SETTING THE HOSTING SPACE FOR NEW WEB SITES ENABLING THE SITE LOG SETTING THE TYPES OF FILES THAT CAN BE UPLOADED CHOOSING WHO HAS PERMISSION TO UPLOAD NEW SKINS LIGHTING UP A NEW PORTAL (OR TWO, OR THREE) CREATING NEW PORTALS PHOTOCOPYING YOUR PORTAL SETTING DEFAULTS FOR A WEB SITE SETTING SITE DETAILS SETTING PAYMENT DETAILS SETTING OTHER MISCELLANEOUS SETTINGS MAINTAINING HOST-ONLY SETTINGS GETTING YOUR USERS INTO ROLES ADDING A NEW ROLE ADDING A NEW ROLE GROUP CREATING AN OPT-IN/OPT-OUT ROLE SETTING USER REGISTRATION ADDING A NEW USER ADDING AND MANAGING PAGES ON YOUR WEB SITE ADDING A PAGE SETTING VIEW AND EDIT PERMISSIONS FOR A PAGE COPYING VIEW AND EDIT PERMISSIONS TO CHILD PAGES COPYING A PAGE ADDING A PAGE SET AS A LINK TO A URL, PAGE, OR FILE CHANGING THE ORDER OF YOUR PAGES ADDING CONTENT TO A PAGE ADDING A NEW MODULE TO A PAGE ADDING AN EXISTING MODULE TO A PAGE DELETING, MOVING, AND PERFORMING OTHER MODULE TASKS BY USING THE MODULE MENU SETTING MODULE PERMISSIONS TWEAKING MODULE SETTINGS MOVING A MODULE TO ANOTHER PAGE MANAGING WEB SITE FILES GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THE FILE MANAGER UPLOADING A FILE TO THE FILE MANAGER DELETE A SINGLE FILE WORKING WITH MULTIPLE FILES INSIDE THE FILE MANAGER CREATING A NEW FOLDER SETTING THE ROLE PERMISSIONS FOR A FOLDER DELETING AN EXISTING FOLDER SYNCHRONIZING ONE OR MORE FOLDERS WITH YOUR DATABASE UPLOADING FILES WITHOUT ADMINISTRATOR RIGHTS MAKING YOUR SITE LOOK GOOD CHANGING THE SITE LOGO CHANGING THE DEFAULT SKIN AND CONTAINERS VIEWING AND APPLYING SKINS UPLOADING A SKIN TO YOUR WEB SITE SETTING THE SKIN AND CONTAINER DESIGNS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL PAGE SETTING THE CONTAINER FOR AN INDIVIDUAL MODULE SETTING ADVANCED DESIGN OPTIONS FOR AN INDIVIDUAL MODULE DOING ALMOST ANYTHING WITH TEXT/HTML PLAIN TEXT EDITING WORKING WITH THE BASIC TEXT BOX FROM RAGS TO RICHES WITH RICH TEXT EDITOR DISCARDING UNWANTED TEXT FORMATTING ADDING STYLES TO TEXT ADDING A WEB SITE LINK TO THE RTE INSERTING IMAGES INTO THE RTE UPLOADING IMAGES TO THE RTE IMAGE GALLERY ADDING A TABLE ACCESSING THE HTML CODE KEEPING USERS INFORMED WITH FAQS ADDING AN FAQ EDITING AN FAQ GETTING AROUND WITH LINKS ADDING A LINK TO ANOTHER WEB SITE LINKING TO PAGES, FILES, OR USERS WITHIN YOUR SITE SELECTING AND UPLOADING A FILE ON THE FLY TRACKING CLICKS ON YOUR LINKS CHANGING THE LAYOUT OF LINKS LETTING EVERYONE KNOW WITH ANNOUNCEMENTS ADDING AN ANNOUNCEMENT SETTING THE DISPLAYED ANNOUNCEMENTS LISTING YOUR CONTACTS DOWNLOADING WITH DOCUMENTS SNEAKING A PEEK WITH IFRAME SHOWING PICTURES, MOVIES, AND MORE WITH THE MEDIA MODULE DISPLAYING AN IMAGE WITH A LINK TO ANOTHER WEB SITE DISPLAYING A MOVIE KEEPING TRACK OF DATES WITH THE EVENTS MODULE SETTING UP THE EVENTS CALENDAR ADDING EVENTS SUBSCRIBING TO NEWS FEEDS DISPLAYING A NEWS FEED SUBSCRIBING TO A NEWS FEED GOING AD HOC WITH THE USER DEFINED TABLE MODULE BUILDING A UDT TABLE ADDING DATA TO A UDT TABLE SHARING SPREADSHEETS AND DATA WITH XML/XSL CREATING AN XML FILE FROM AN EXCEL SPREADSHEET DISPLAYING A CUSTOM SPREADSHEET FROM EXCEL CREATING ONLINE SURVEYS CREATING A SURVEY SETTINGS TO ENHANCE YOUR SURVEY LEVERAGING PARTNERSHIPS WITH BANNERS CREATING A VENDOR ACCOUNT ADDING AN IMAGE BANNER TO A VENDOR ADDING A TEXT BANNER TO A VENDOR DISPLAYING A BANNER ON YOUR SITE SENDING A BANNER STATUS E-MAIL TO A VENDOR SEEING WHO IS AT HOME WITH USERSONLINE ENABLING THE USERSONLINE MODULE ENSURING THAT USERSONLINE INFORMATION IS UP-TO-DATE SETTING THE USER INFORMATION TO BE DISPLAYED ON THE USERSONLINE MODULE GETTING TO KNOW THE FEEDBACK MODULES RECEIVING FEEDBACK IN A FLASH SENDING FEEDBACK SHARING THE FEEDBACK WORKLOAD SHARING AND MODERATING FEEDBACK COMMENTS MODIFYING THE LAYOUT AND FIELDS OF THE FEEDBACK MODULE GETTING FAMILIAR WITH THIS BLOGGING BUSINESS GETTING TO KNOW THE DNN BLOG MODULE CREATING A PUBLIC BLOG CREATING CHILD BLOGS MAKING BLOG ENTRIES VIEWING, EDITING, OR DELETING BLOG ENTRIES SETTING OPTIONS FOR THE MOST RECENT BLOG ENTRIES MODULE ALLOW BLOGGERS TO ADD IMAGES AND ATTACHMENTS SETTING A PERSONAL BLOG PAGE SEARCH OPTIONS SHOW BLOG SUMMARY BLOG SETTINGS FOR ALL BLOGGERS: ADVANCED SETTINGS FOR YOUR BLOG SETTING DATE AND TIME OPTIONS USING TRACKBACK URLS SYNDICATE THIS BLOG CREATING PERMALINKS TO YOUR BLOG GETTING TO KNOW FORUMS THE DNN FORUM MODULE THE FORUM ADMINISTRATION PAGE CREATING A PUBLIC FORUM TURNING A FORUM OFF POSTING TO A FORUM CREATING A ROLE-RESTRICTED (PRIVATE) FORUM FILTERING OUT THE BAD WORDS MODERATING WHAT PEOPLE SAY IN FORUMS CHANGING THE LAYOUT AND DESIGN GOING PUBLIC WITH NEWSLETTERS SHOWCASE AND SHARE WITH THE REPOSITORY MODULE SETTING UP THE REPOSITORY THE FASTEST SETUP THIS SIDE OF TEXAS ADDING MORE CATEGORIES SETTING THE UNIQUE REPOSITORY SECURITY ROLES CHANGING THE FUNCTION OF THE REPOSITORY SETTING THE SKIN CHOOSING A SKIN TO SUIT CHANGING THE PAGE LAYOUT WORKING WITH REPOSITORY FILES EDITING AND DELETING ITEMS DOWNLOADING A FILE SEARCHING THE REPOSITORY MODERATING NEW ITEMS ADDING A COMMENT TO AN ITEM VIEWING, EDITING, AND DELETING COMMENTS RATING FILES DISPLAYING QUICK LINKS BY USING THE DASHBOARD SELLING STUFF WITH A STORE THE STORE MENU (CATEGORIES) MODULE THE STORE CATALOG MODULE THE STORE MINI CART MODULE THE STORE ACCOUNT MODULE THE STORE ADMIN MODULE LAYING OUT YOUR STORE CREATING THE STORE PAGE CREATING THE STORE ACCOUNT PAGE CREATING THE STORE ADMIN PAGE CHOOSING A PAYMENT PROVIDER CONFIGURING THE STORE ADMIN MODULE SETTING THE PAYMENT GATEWAY AS PAYPAL SETTING THE PAYMENT GATEWAY AS AUTHORIZENET ADDING TAX RATES FOR EACH STATE ADDING A SHIPPING FEE ADDING PRODUCTS TO THE STORE CREATING AND MANAGING CATEGORIES CREATING AND MANAGING PRODUCTS APPROVING AND EDITING PRODUCT REVIEWS DELETING A PRODUCT REVIEW SHOPPING ’TIL YOU DROP ADDING A PRODUCT TO THE CART GOING TO THE CHECKOUT VIEWING PREVIOUS CUSTOMER ORDERS COLLABORATING WITH WIKI CREATING A WIKI SITE CONFIGURING WIKI SITES AND CHOOSING EDITORS CHOOSE THE WIKI WEB SITE FOR THIS MODULE GETTING TO KNOW YOUR WIKI EDITING WIKI PAGES LINKING TO NEW OR EXISTING WIKI PAGES PERFORMING MAINTENANCE ON YOUR WIKI EXPORTING AND IMPORTING WIKI WEB SITES FINDING THINGS WITH SEARCH INPUT AND SEARCH RESULTS SETTING UP SEARCH ADDING MORE SEARCH INPUT AND SEARCH RESULTS MODULES CHANGING THE FORMAT OF SEARCH RESULTS INVITING AUTHENTICATION WITH ACCOUNT LOGIN ADDING AN ACCOUNT LOGIN MODULE CREATING A UNIQUE LOGIN PAGE PERSONALIZING WITH USER ACCOUNT PERSONALIZING YOUR E-MAIL NOTIFICATIONS CHANGING THE REGISTRATION E-MAIL MESSAGE CHANGING OTHER E-MAIL NOTIFICATIONS CHANGING YOUR TERMS OF USE POLICY CHANGING YOUR DEFAULT LANGUAGE ADDING A LANGUAGE CHANGING YOUR PREFERRED LANGUAGE GETTING TO KNOW YOUR SITE LOG THE PAGE POPULARITY REPORT THE PAGE VIEWS REPORTS THE USER REGISTRATIONS REPORTS THE USER FREQUENCY REPORT THE SITE REFERRALS REPORT THE AFFILIATE REFERRALS REPORT THE DETAILED SITE LOG REPORT THE USER AGENTS REPORT SEE WHAT’S HAPPENING WITH THE LOG VIEWER USING THE LOG VIEWER CONFIGURING THE LOG VIEWER CHECKING OUT THE RECYCLE BIN RESTORING A PAGE PERMANENTLY DELETING A PAGE RESTORING A MODULE PERMANENTLY DELETING A MODULE EMPTYING THE RECYCLE BIN CHECKING ON SCHEDULED TASKS DISCOVERING PROVIDERS WORKING WITH HTTP MODULES GETTING TO KNOW SKIN OBJECTS REPLACING THE STANDARD DNN EDITOR WITH THE TELERIK R A D EDITOR INSTALLING THE EDITOR INSTALLING THE DNN PROVIDER CONFIGURING THE WEB CONFIG FILE REPLACING THE STANDARD DNN EDITOR WITH THE FCKEDITOR PROVIDER REPLACING STANDARD DNN NAVIGATION WITH A TELERIK SKIN OBJECT BUILDING FORMS WITH ENTERPRISE FORMS MANAGING IMAGES WITH THE DNN PHOTO GALLERY SKINNING SHORTCUTS WITH THE ZLDNN-MODULE WRAPPER ONLINE CHAT AND SUPPORT WITH SWIRL (AJAX-BASED CHAT) DESIGNING PAGES WITH THE AGGREGATOR 3 1 ACTIVEFORUMS STREAMLINING CONTENT APPROVAL WITH CONTENT MANAGER DISTRIBUTING PODCASTS WITH THE PODCASTER MODULE INTERACTING WITH PAGE OPTIONS MANAGING ONLINE ISSUES TICKETING WITH HELP DESK GOMAP GOOGLESEARCH MMLINKS DAILY COMIC MULTI PAGE CONTENT TEMPLATEPRINT SKIN OBJECT WEATHER CHILD LINKS YAP EMAIL MANAGER 1 03 POWER DOWNLOADS MAINTAINING THEIR PROFILES SUBSCRIBING TO FAVORITE FORUMS AND GETTING NOTIFICATION OF POSTS RANKING YOUR MOST ACTIVE USERS GIVING USERS ADDITIONAL AVATARS ENABLING TIME ZONES SPECIFIC TO EACH USER LETTING USERS RATE THEIR FAVORITE POSTS DISPLAYING THE POSTER’S LOCATION DISPLAYING A FORUM GROUP ON A DIFFERENT PAGE