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1/2/2006 1:48 AM
 

Nice job on the personal blog page. It's a great option, but it'd be even better if it went a bit farther. Would it be possible to add an option to tie down to a child blog?

The particular situation I have is that one user runs a site and has a primary blog with a child blog for each page. The front page has the summary of all of the blogs, while the rest of the pages have actual content derived from one of the child blogs. I'd like to be able to tie each of the other pages down to just the appropriate child blog.

Ideas/feasibility?

 
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1/2/2006 2:16 AM
 

Hm,

do you really need a blog module?

Or do you should better use for that case a news/article module ?

Have a look to the article/news modules from efficion consulting and Scott Smulloch. I believe these modules does exactly what you like to do.

regards

HP


Best regards
Hans-Peter Schelian
www.schelian.com (English)
German DotNetNuke Community
 
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1/2/2006 2:26 PM
 

A news/article module might be more appropriate, but for the ones I've tried out (including one of those you linked to) I'd have to do a complete rewrite on the public UI to make it have that blogging look and feel to it. For that I like this module much better than anything else I've tried out so far.

After looking through the code, it looks like everything is already in place to support handling child blogs, but they just need to be added to the list. Since none of the ListBlog* utility functions would be easily useable for this, I'll probably do my own modification to add one that will list them similar to the way pages are listed. Creative SQL, here we come!

Thanks for the response and excellent work on the module! 

 
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1/8/2006 11:59 PM
 

Hi Dragonskin,

What is the URL of the site you mentioned above?  I'm curious to see how you implemented the blogging system?

Regards,

John

 
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1/12/2006 6:46 PM
 

I'll post the URL as soon as it goes live (it's behind a firewall at the moment while stuff gets transferred over from its previous site).

I did get the modification to work, but I found an odd bug that I'm not sure if I introduced or if it was there to begin with. If a page has an entry to tie into a particular blog, and then that blog is removed, you'll get NullReferenceExceptions and ArgumentNullExceptions from many of the blog controls, including when you try to go into the module options to change the blog it's tied into. Deleting and recreating the controls on the same page doesn't fix the issue...they still have the problem with the exceptions. I ended up going into the database and resetting the personal blog value to -1 for all controls, and then manually setting up the personal blogs again.

I'll probably look into it more this weekend so I know for sure.

 
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