DotNetNuke Videos

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to setup a limited administrators access account. This option is only available from DotNetNuke version 5 onwards where the administrator modules can now be added to any page and configured for any user to access and use the features of the administrator modules.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Configuration of Admin Page and Admin User
• Video 2 - How to Create a Security Roles Page for Members of Staff
• Video 3 - How to Configure User Accounts, Console and Newsletters Modules
• Video 4 - How to Configure the FileManager Module
• Video 5 - How to Configure the Tabs Module

Total Time Length: 42min 10secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to reset your Host SuperUser and Administrator accounts in DotNetNuke when you have forgotten the username and password.

Even if you know the username to your Host user account, you will find that if you request the password via email, it will send the email, but for the Host user account, the password will be replaced with asterisks, so this will not help you to recover your details and login.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, How to Connect to a Live SQL Server Database
• Video 2 - How to Reset the Host User Account
• Video 3 - How to Reset the Administrator User Account
• Video 4 - How to Create SQL Queries to Reset the Admin and Host User Accounts

Total Time Length: 32min 26secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an iPhone application for DotNetNuke using OWS. We show you how to detect the iPhone and send the user to a custom page which displays data from various modules across the DotNetNuke portal.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, How to Detect the iPhone and Redirect it to an iPhone Compatible Page
• Video 2 - How to Add Links to Use iPhone Apps, Create Main Menu, Configure Fetching Data Message
• Video 3 - How to Display Content from the Links module to the iPhone
• Video 4 - Testing and How to Display Content from the Announcements module

Total Time Length: 35min 30secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to package a skin for DotNetNuke 5. This method is the new method which includes a .dnn manifest file

The new DotNetNuke 5 method provides additional options when installing. For instance, you can display release notes and a license which the user must agree to before they can install the skin. It also provides the possibility to automatically install any skin objects that your skin requires at the same time, for instance if you are using a menu.

This makes the installation process for the end-user much more streamlined and much less prone to errors. However this method of packaging requires a little more work from the skin developer and that is what we cover in detail in this tutorial.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, How to Configure the DotNetNuke 5 Skin Package
• Video 2 - How to create thumbnail preview images for a skin
• Video 3 - How to Create the Skin, Container, Skin Object Installation Packages
• Video 4 - How to combine the Contents of the Skin, Container, Skin Object Packages
• Video 5 - Skin Package .dnn Manifest File
• Video 6 - Merging the .dnn Manifest Files
• Video 7 - Creating, Installing and Testing the Skin Installation Zip Package
• Video 8 - How to Create a Skin .dnn Manifest File Using the Components Method

Total Time Length: 89min 13secs

This tutorial explores methods to combat spam in your DotNetNuke website. In particular we focus on Active Forums and show you how to create scheduled SQL queries to prevent spam displaying in your forum. Spam can be a time consuming nuisance to both the administrators and the visitors of your website, so this tutorial helps you to automate the prevention of spam.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Basic Steps for Discouraging Spam
• Video 2 - Typical Spammer Profiles, Giving Users Trusted Access Using SQL
• Video 3 - Creating the SQL Query to Combat SPAM
• Video 4 - How to Schedule the SQL Query

Total Time Length: 35min 56secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to create an email form using Open Web Studio for DotNetNuke. We demonstrate how to build the email form, how to create the logic for sending the form, as well as how to attach a file to an email and how to validate the email when it is sent to ensure deliverability.

The video contains:

• Introduction
• How to create the email form module
• How to link the module to the SendEmail configuration
• How to remove the automated templates that are not required
• How to add a HTML form to the 'No Query' template
• How to build the logic for the Send Email form
• Creating the email content to send logic
• Creating the email attachment logic
• How to setup an action variable to test if the email was successful and display a message
• Testing the Send Email form

Time Length: 11min 53secs

In this tutorial we add some cool features to our OWS Knowledge Base Article module, this covers social networking and working with APIs and web services.

Including: Send This to a Friend email, AddThis social bookmarks, Facebook Share API, integrating Yahoo! answers API. These are powerful techniques to enhance your OWS Modules.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - How to Build an 'Email to a Friend' function
• Video 2 - How to Add Social BookMarks with AddThis and Share on Facebook
• Video 3 - How to Display and Search Yahoo Answers via their API

Total Time Length: 34min 21secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate the new Content Staging Workflow options in the Community Edition of DotNetNuke 5.

The Content Staging Workflow options in the Community Edition of DotNetNuke apply to the Text / HTML module. We show you how to create a draft version, how to publish a draft version, how to view and preview the version history of the Text / HTML module as well as how to roll back to a previous version of the Text / HTML module.

The video covers:

• Video 1 - DotNetNuke 5 Community Edition HTML Module Content Staging Workflow

Time Length: 8min 46secs

In this free video tutorial we provide a quick start guide to using DotNetNuke 5.

This tutorial will help you get started using DotNetNuke without getting into all of the finer details, once you've got to grips with this tutorial you can then explore the other video tutorials on DNN Creative Magazine and those tutorials will help you to get the most from your DotNetNuke portal.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Configuring and Securing Admin and Host User Accounts
• Video 2 - Introduction to Admin Functions, How to Add a Module to the Page
• Video 3 - How to Add a Text / HTML Module to the Page
• Video 4 - How to Install and Configure the Links Module
• Video 5 - How to Use Containers and Skins in DotNetNuke
• Video 6 - Logo, How to Create Pages and Move Modules

Total Time Length: 59min 15secs

In this Free tutorial we demonstrate how to install the DotNetNuke Core Module Extensions in DotNetNuke 5.

If you have used previous versions of DotNetNuke and you are wondering where the core modules have moved to, or if you are a beginner to DotNetNuke and would like to install the additional free core modules that come as default with DotNetNuke, this tutorial will provide all of the information you need.

Video 1 - How to install DotNetNuke Core Modules in DNN 5

• Demonstration of core modules location in previous versions of DotNetNuke
• DotNetNuke 5 extensions
• How to install available extensions
• How to install multiple DotNetNuke core modules at the same time

Time Length: 2min 46secs