By Lee Sykes
April 2009
In this tutorial we demonstrate how to use DNN Stuff’s Aggregator Module. This module is a really flexible module as it acts as a tabbed container or can also be used as a localization container for one or more modules.
The module allows you to combine several modules together from a page into a tabbed interface. You can populate the Aggregator module with RSS feeds as well as any other module from any page installed in your DotNetNuke portal.
The module design and layout is controlled through skin templates and these can also be easily modified to match the styling of your website.
The videos contain:
Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Configuration
- Introduction
- How to download and install the Aggregator module
- How to add the module to a page
- Aggregator module settings, edit tabs
- How to create a new tab in the aggregator module
- Locale settings in a tab
- Viewing the tab details in Tab Settings
- How to create additional tabs
- Viewing the tabs
Time Length: 8min 28secs
Video 2 - How to Add Modules Into The Aggregator
- How to create tabs using the Quick Settings
- How to add modules into the Aggregator module
- How to add an existing module to a tab
- How to add multiple modules to a tab
- How to add an existing module to a new tab
- How to edit the settings of a module within a tab
- How to move a module from a tab to a different tab
Time Length: 9min 31secs
Video 3 - Further Configuration Options with Tabs and Modules
- How to add an existing module from any page to a tab
- Example of working with copied modules in the aggregator
- How to add all page modules to the aggregator
- How to re-order the tabs
- How to delete a tab
- How to return a module to the page
- Style Settings
- Tab Skin and Templates
Time Length: 10min 34secs
Video 4 - Style Settings, Linking Several Aggregator Modules
- Style Settings
- Hide Module Title / Container
- Show Pager
- Hide Single Tabs
- Active Hover
- Hide All Tabs
- How the Aggregator module can be integrated with other modules such as Ventrian News Articles
- How to add a second Aggregator module to the page
- Target settings
- How to link several aggregator modules together on the same page
Time Length: 9min 46secs
Video 5 - Displaying RSS Feeds in the Aggregator
- RSS feed options
- How to add an RSS feed to the Aggregator module
- Max Items
- Cache Time
- RSS Tab Caption and tokens
- RSS feed username and password
- How to select a template for an RSS feed
- How to limit the length of an RSS feed item title
- How to upload a skin template to the Aggregator module
- How to create a custom template for the Aggregator module
- How to copy an Aggregator template
- How to change the naming of the CSS classes in the styles.css file
- How to assign your custom template to the Aggregator module
Time Length: 9min 18secs
Video 6 - Styling and Working with Templates in Aggregator
- How to make style changes to your Aggregator template
- How to change the color when hovering over a tab
- How to assign a different color for each tab
- The template layouts
- layout.html
- tabstrip.html
- tab.html
- tabpage.html
- paging.html
- pagingitem.html
Time Length: 9min 40secs
Total Time Length: 57min 17secs