Hi,

I'm working on some modules and I have been studying various core modules to implement "ImportModule" and "ExportModule".

These modules have evelolved and have been added to DNN over the existence of DNN.

Some modules litterally use string concatination, some use xml serialization.

So what is the "Correct" way (there are many ways) or standard for these methods?

Thanks,

Colin

Michael,

Thanks for post. Appreciate it.

Colin

Michael,

This leads me to anthoer question I have.

When you are adding a new page (4.5.0) and you decide to copy a module from an existing page there are three options, copy module structure, copy module with content and thirdly, copy module with reference to the module content instance.

I understand options 1 and 3.

Option 2 however I need to get some clarification on.

1). Firstly, when you copy a module with its content, is it using "IPortable" to copy the content over? If so;

2). Lets say for example your module has a "Links" Table and a "Category" Table both interlinked with a third table "Category Groups". How does DNN cater for such a module when it is copying it or do I need to write a private method to handle this in IPortable?  I can understand the Survey Module as it's tables are hirearchial and you just iterate through the tables based on primary keys to construct the export and import structure.

Hopefully you might have a clearer understanding on the mechanism than i do and I'd love to get your expertise on it.

Thanks for your attention on this.

Cheers,

Colin