DotNetNuke Videos

In this free video tutorial we demonstrate how to install skins and containers in DotNetNuke 5.

If you have used an earlier DotNetNuke version, the installation has changed slightly, or if you are a beginner to DotNetNuke this should help you get up to speed quickly.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - How to Install a Skin in DotNetNuke 5
• Video 2 - How to Test a Skin, How to Auto Install a Skin

Total Time Length: 18min 14secs

In this tutorial we demonstrate the DotNetNuke NavMenu. The NavMenu is the default menu that comes with DotNetNuke, we demonstrate how to configure and setup the NavMenu in your DotNetNuke skins and how to create a horizontal menu, vertical menu and both a horizontal and vertical menu on the same page.

To begin the tutorial we demonstrate how to create a basic 1pane simple skin and add the NavMenu to your skin. The first menu we create is a horizontal menu, we show you how to add a background faded image to the menu, how to set the styling for hover over, the breadcrumb trail styling for the menu, (ie. the currently selected page) and how to work with the various attributes that are available for the NavMenu.

Following this we create a vertical menu and then demonstrate how to display both a vertical and horizontal menu on the same page. To finish we show you the attributes that are available for configuring which menu items should display when two menus are presented on a page.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Adding a Horizontal Nav Menu to a Skin
• Video 2 - An Overview of the Nav Menu Token Attributes
• Video 3 - Initial Background Styling and Positioning for the Menu
• Video 4 - How to Style the Root Menu Items
• Video 5 - Styling the Currently Selected, Mouse Over and Sub Menu Items
• Video 6 - Styling the Sub Menu
• Video 7 - How to Create a Vertical Menu Skin
• Video 8 - How to Style the Vertical Menu
• Video 9 - How to Display a Vertical and Horizontal Menu
• Video 10 - How to Configure the Display of 2 Nav Menus
• Video 11 - Configuring Which Pages to Display in the Vertical Menu

This tutorial demonstrates Debugging, Enhanced Reporting, Importing Records and Scheduling in Open Web Studio.

We begin the tutorial by demonstrating how to debug your OWS application using the built in OWS tools. This covers how to debug form variables, session variables, SQL queries, and troubleshooingt problems.

Next we enhance the reporting page that we built in episode 4 provide a facility to export your report to Microsoft Excel CSV files and HTML formatted Word documents.

Following this we enhance the Knowledgebase Manager so that it can import records from a CSV file, this allows you to automatically import multiple knowledgebase articles simultaneously.

To finish, we demonstrate how to schedule your OWS configuration using the DotNetNuke Scheduler. We demonstrate how to setup a query which executes each day and checks for any articles that have a pending status.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Debugging, Form Variable Troubleshooting
• Video 2 - Debugging Session Variables and SQL Queries
• Video 4 - How to Upload New Knowledge Base Articles Using a CSV File
• Video 5 - How to Use the DotNetNuke Scheduler with OWS

This tutorial demonstrate the ASCX method of DotNetNuke skinning. This is the method that the professional DotNetNuke skinners use as it is much quicker to build skins in this way.

We explain the concepts of DotNetNuke ASCX skinning, how to setup Visual Web Developer Express to enable the skin token attribute suggestions, how to use ASCX skin tokens, how to make quick edits to tokens and instantly see them on your DotNetNuke website, how to display two tokens of the same type - for instance two menus, how to use skinpath for images, how to view the attributes that are available for a skin token, how to speed edit CSS code, how to quickly create additional skins using the ASCX method and instantly view them within your DotNetNuke installation, and finally how to work with ASCX Containers.

The videos cover:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Pros and Cons of ASCX Skinning
• Video 2 - Introduction to ASCX Skin Code and Setup in VWD Express
• Video 3 - How to Edit The ASCX Tokens, Configuring the Search Token
• Video 4 - How to Display 2 Nav Menus, How to Use SKINPATH for Images
• Video 5 - Skin CSS Code Speed Editing in ASCX skins
• Video 6 - Containers ASCX skinning

This tutorial demonstrates how to add personalization to the knowledge base module.

We demonstrate InterModule Communications and create a ‘My Saved Articles’ module. This module allows the user to create their own list of favourite knowledgebase articles.

We demonstrate working with JQuery to create a ToolTip, how to change the “fetching data” message that is displayed for Ajax module refreshes (ie. When searching for an article and the site is loading the data) to an animated GIF and we show how to enable the OWS Text Editor, which allows us to create Rich Text/HTML articles.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Building the Saved Articles Module
• Video 2 - Add to My Saved Function, Delete Function, JQuery Tooltip
• Video 3 - Fetching Data Customization, Using the Text / HTML Editor
• Video 4 - Multi Category Selection for a Knowledgebase Article - OWS Checkboxes (Advanced Technique)
• Video 5 - Interactive Logging Techniques, Beginning Reporting - OWS Columns and Column Templates

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Markit Slideshow module. The Slideshow module is useful for displaying your featured articles and products as an image, text content or you can even display an existing module within a slideshow.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Adding Slides
• Video 2 - How to Create a Slide and View a Slideshow
• Video 3 - How to Create a Text / HTML slide and Existing Module Slide
• Video 4 - Slideshow Templates and Configuration Options
• Video 5 - Slideshow Configuration Options

This tutorial demonstrates how to use DNN Stuff’s Module Rotator. This module allows you to rotate the content of multiple modules in the space of a single module.

The video contains:

• Introduction
• Demonstration of the module in action
• How to download and install the module
• How to add Text / HTML modules to the page
• How to add the module rotator to a page
• Rotator, Manage Modules
• How to add modules from the page into the module rotator
• How to re-order the rotation display of the module
• Auto Hide Titles
• Demonstration of each module rotating on page load / refresh
• Timer Settings
• How to automatically rotate the modules display in seconds

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Markit PageEar module. The PageEar module allows you to place Page Peel advertisements on your DotNetNuke websites.

In this tutorial we walk you through installation and how to fully configure this module.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Installation, Configuration
• Video 2 - Configuration, Displaying the Module

This tutorial demonstrates how to use the Monitter for DNN module by Joe Brinkman. The module is available as a free download from CodePlex.

This is a simple module which allows you to easily display a real-time feed of twitter search results on your website.

The video contains:

• Introduction
• How to download the module
• How to install the module
• How to add the module to the page
• How to configure the Monitter settings
• Search Terms
• Tweet Count
• Display Search Box
• Clear on Search

This tutorial demonstrates how to build the user search page for searching knowledge base articles.

We demonstrate how to implement record paging and column sorting, how to create a categories module and how to edit the knowledge base manager page so that we can record categories for each of our articles.

We show you how to enable and configure Full Text Search on the server, tricks on how to output the articles that people are viewing so they are printable and how to add an articles rating feature and the principles for a query based look up drop down field so that you can query tables from the database to make record selections.

The videos contain:

• Video 1 - Introduction, Categories Module
• Video 2 - Categories Module and Passing IDs to the Search Module
• Video 3 - Search Knowledge Base Module, Full-Text SQL Search
• Video 4 - Search Results Formatting, Article Ratings
• Video 5 - Print Functions