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New Post 5/31/2006 12:51 PM
  kevin jenkins
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ST HomePage questions  (United States)
Modified By Rodney Joyce  on 6/6/2006 6:31:46 PM)

hi rod,

 

i've been architecting our agency's new intranet for the past 6 mos. i've been converting old ASP and .NET 1 apps to DNN 4 modules. we really like DNN but our biggest problem is the lack of user-level personalization. specifically, we want to allow the users to customize their view of the home page… add RSS feed modules, etc. very similar to my yahoo! but especially like google's personalized home page.

 

the ST HomePage module may be able to solve this problem… except that it actually creates a database "page" for each user, right? so, here are my specific questions:

 

1) is there a way to offer the user a default design/set of modules that they can then configure? the default home page in your demo has an HTML/Text module in the center pane. our default would have a few modules in the panes by default. is this possible?

 

2) from what i gather from your site, it's not currently possible to "lock" certain modules so they can't remove them from the page.. right? i don't know that much about skinning but i guess you can't create a pane w/ modules that isn't editable, huh?

 

3) we would like to force our users to their home page when they log in. currently, you have to find the "My HomePage" button. your site says that a 3rd party sredirect script could potentially do this… can you recommend one?

 

4) Can the My HomePage button be a text link button?  or can it be added to the navigation somehow?

 

5) we wouldn't want users' home pages viewable to any other users beside the admins and the host user. is this possible? for example, user A's home page is only viewable by user A. it wouldn't show up in the site navigation, etc.

 

6) do you have a money back guarantee… or a trial period? or trial/eval version? we may want to check this module out on our dev site but would like our $85 back if it doesn't suit our needs.  not to sound pessimistic but it's hard test driving 3rd party DNN modules before purchasing and we've ended up paying for too many modules that we can't use.

 

sorry for the amount of questions and i thank you so much for your help,

 

kevin

 
New Post 6/6/2006 5:28 PM
  Rodney Joyce
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Re: ST HomePage questions  (N/A)
Hello Kevin,
 
Firstly - a huge apology for not getting back to you sooner! I've launched the DotNetNuke Directory and it's been keeping me busy!
 
Right - lets have a look at this.
 
Firstly - all this module is doing is automating the process of creating a page per user and associating them so that when that user views their page they have admin rights. A prime factor was that I could not edit the core (or I could have made the control a lot tighter) - so I had to make do with the API the core offered. This means though that you can test anything you want to do by creating a page for a user and giving them admin rights. If they can achieve what you want then it is most likely doable with this module. If not, then no - it's not (it creates the UserRole association and then passes control back to the DNN workflow,skining engine and security framework and renders modules/skins accordingly)
 
So:
 
!) By editing the source you could choose which modules were created when a page was created. I think another user was customizing it so that it pulled a "template" from another page to use asa base.
 
2) No - see my front blurb for this reason
 
3) Hmm - I am not familiar with any redirection modules I'm afraid - best asking on the main forums. You might want to edit the source though this would be easy to do - in the HomePage module it already works out if the module is on a Smart-Thinker HomePage or not (and renders accordingly) so you would just redirect instead.
 
4) Not added to navigation - but you could chnage the style (possible without the source using CSS) but definitely with the source.
 
5) Funny - this is how the frist version was and everyone complained that it was pointless ;)  It would not be too hard to modify the code to do this - I can help you here.
 
6) No - no guarentee as such. The demos on ST are normally enough. A lot of people think that I ammad to give away all modules for $30 (and indeed - $85 for the amount of blood, sweat and tears I have put in is not worth it compared to what you pay on Snowcovered for the source of 8 modules) - BUT - I am a resonable man so if you really didn't like it I would consider refunding you (this is on a case by case basis, and it helps if you don't download everything and then say you want a refund as one gentleman did ;)
 
Hope this all help!
 
Out of interest, there is another user on these Forums (Rick) who has made a few similiar enhancements toyours - he was very chuffed with the results (see the other posts beginning June).
Let me know if you have any more questions - I'll answer promptly!
 

Thanks
Rodney
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New Post 6/7/2006 7:19 AM
  kevin jenkins
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Re: ST HomePage questions  (United States)

rod,

thanks so much for your detailed reply.  i really do appreciate it.

kevin

 
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