6. DotNetNuke 6.x Basics - How to Use the Documents Module

In this collection of tutorials we show you how to build a website with DotNetNuke 6. We will cover the basics of setting up a range of different free standard DNN Modules.

We will create and configure the following pages:

• About Us - Text/HTML Module
• Contact Us - Feedback Module
• Frequently Asked Questions - FAQs Module
• Documents - Document Manager Module
• Executive Blog - DNN Blog Module
• Community Forums - Forum Module
• Links - Links Module
• Request a Quote - Form and List Module
• We also show you all the basic DotNetNuke administration techniques you will need to further develop your DNN website.

In this tutorial, we configure the documents module to help us build a documents page for our website.

We walk you through how to upload three different types of files to the module including a disallowed file type, we then show you configure DotNetNuke to allow the upload of a previously disallowed file type.

This video contains:

• Introduction
• Preparing the documents page
• Inserting the documents module
• How to upload a Microsoft Word file
• How to upload a Microsoft Excel file
• How to upload a Windows Executable file
• About disallowed file types in DotNetNuke
• How to configure DotNetNuke 6 to allow the upload of disallowed file types
• Changing the container of the documents module