Hi Folks

I am still trying to reverse engineer the Module Manifest in order to get my modules to upload (a question raised in this thread and still unresolved). But I am creating a new thread here to report some related but different errors/bugs.

In order to get a model of a correct Module Manifest, I have created a compiled module (via the v5 starter kit) loaded it succesfully into V5 and tried to generate an extension package from that to use as a model. This fails and gives me this error message:

But before we get there I do get a draft of the (presumably incorrect) manifest, which I reproduce below

<dotnetnuke type="Package" version="5.0">
  <packages>
    <package name="ModuleTest" type="Module" version="1.0.0">
      <friendlyName>ModuleTest</friendlyName>
      <description>A ModuleTest module</description>
      <owner>
        <name>test</name>
        <organization>test</organization>
        <url>www.test.com</url>
        <email>geoff@test.com</email>
      </owner>
      <license>This package has no license</license>
      <releaseNotes />
      <components>
        <component type="Script">
          <scripts>
            <basePath>DesktopModules\ModuleTest</basePath>
            <script type="Install">
              <name>01.00.00.SqlDataProvider</name>
              <version>01.00.00</version>
            </script>
            <script type="Install">
              <name>ModuleTest.SqlDataProvider</name>
              <version>ModuleTest</version>
            </script>
            <script type="UnInstall">
              <name>Uninstall.SqlDataProvider</name>
              <version>1.0.0</version>
            </script>
          </scripts>
        </component>
        <component type="Module">
          <desktopModule>
            <moduleName>ModuleTest</moduleName>
            <foldername>ModuleTest</foldername>
            <businessControllerClass>YourCompany.Modules.ModuleTest.ModuleTestController</businessControllerClass>
            <supportedFeatures>
              <supportedFeature type="Portable" />
              <supportedFeature type="Searchable" />
            </supportedFeatures>
            <moduleDefinitions>
              <moduleDefinition>
                <friendlyName>ModuleTest</friendlyName>
                <defaultCacheTime>0</defaultCacheTime>
                <moduleControls>
                  <moduleControl>
                    <controlKey />
                    <controlSrc>DesktopModules/ModuleTest/ViewModuleTest.ascx</controlSrc>
                    <supportsPartialRendering>False</supportsPartialRendering>
                    <controlTitle />
                    <controlType>View</controlType>
                    <iconFile />
                    <helpUrl />
                    <viewOrder>0</viewOrder>
                  </moduleControl>
                  <moduleControl>
                    <controlKey>Edit</controlKey>
                    <controlSrc>DesktopModules/ModuleTest/EditModuleTest.ascx</controlSrc>
                    <supportsPartialRendering>False</supportsPartialRendering>
                    <controlTitle>Edit Content</controlTitle>
                    <controlType>Edit</controlType>
                    <iconFile />
                    <helpUrl />
                    <viewOrder>0</viewOrder>
                  </moduleControl>
                  <moduleControl>
                    <controlKey>Settings</controlKey>
                    <controlSrc>DesktopModules/ModuleTest/Settings.ascx</controlSrc>
                    <supportsPartialRendering>False</supportsPartialRendering>
                    <controlTitle>ModuleTest Settings</controlTitle>
                    <controlType>Edit</controlType>
                    <iconFile />
                    <helpUrl />
                    <viewOrder>0</viewOrder>
                  </moduleControl>
                </moduleControls>
              </moduleDefinition>
            </moduleDefinitions>
          </desktopModule>
          <eventMessage>
            <processorType>DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.EventMessageProcessor, DotNetNuke</processorType>
            <processorCommand>UpgradeModule</processorCommand>
            <attributes>
              <businessControllerClass>YourCompany.Modules.ModuleTest.ModuleTestController</businessControllerClass>
              <desktopModuleID>[DESKTOPMODULEID]</desktopModuleID>
              <upgradeVersionsList>01.00.00</upgradeVersionsList>
            </attributes>
          </eventMessage>
        </component>
        <component type="Assembly">
          <assemblies>
            <basePath>bin</basePath>
            <assembly>
              <name>ModuleTest.dll</name>
            </assembly>
          </assemblies>
        </component>
        <component type="File">
          <files>
            <basePath>DesktopModules\ModuleTest</basePath>
            <file>
              <path>app_localresources</path>
              <name>EditModuleTest.ascx.resx</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <path>app_localresources</path>
              <name>Settings.ascx.resx</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <path>app_localresources</path>
              <name>ViewModuleTest.ascx.resx</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <name>ModuleTest.dnn</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <path>documentation</path>
              <name>Documentation.css</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <path>documentation</path>
              <name>Documentation.html</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <path>documentation</path>
              <name>logo.gif</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <name>EditModuleTest.ascx</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <name>Settings.ascx</name>
            </file>
            <file>
              <name>ViewModuleTest.ascx</name>
            </file>
          </files>
        </component>
      </components>
    </package>
  </packages>
</dotnetnuke>

Perhaps someone who knows could tell me what is wrong here and if I should register this in the issue tracker. Also (though not so important) the text in the DotNetNuke Compiled Module Documentation needs updating i.e.

Installing your module

To install your module, browse to your deevlopment DotNetNuke website and log in as a Host (SuperUser) user.

• Browse to the Host/Module Definitions page and select Add Module. In the drop-down combo at the top of the page select the Manifest file for your new module and click Install.

Kind regards

Geoffrey

Hi Sebastian

That is very interesting because you cant type in the version numbers, you select them from Edit Extension screen, Package Settings, Version dropdownlists of the Wizard and there are then a number of places where this automatically generated manifest (listed in my first post) doesn't comply:

<dotnetnuke type="Package" version="5.0">

<package name="ModuleTest" type="Module" version="1.0.0">

<script type="UnInstall">
              <name>Uninstall.SqlDataProvider</name>
              <version>1.0.0</version>
            </script>

I have fixed these (e.g to dotnetnuke type="Package" version="05.00.00") in the review screen, clicked next, and still get the message:

A critical error has occurred.
Version string portion was too short or too long.

So, should I log this as a bug, or am I doing something wrong?

Kind regards

Geoffrey

Sebastian,

Geoffrey's error is directly related to typing errors in his manifest file. I have posted a corrected entries in another thread he created.

Hope this helps.

tb