Hi all

I have written a webmethod for the IWebCS module. The purpose of the webmethod is to add pages, and each new page should contain the HTML module.

While it does add a new page, with a HTML module, it seems that the new module always has the same moduleID, so that when it is added all other previously added pages, and their respective modules get updated.

I have tried clearing various caches, tried hard coding the module id but nothing seems to work. Does anyone have any ideas? here is my code:

[WebMethod(Description = "Creates a new page")]
        public int CreatePage(string pageName, string content, string title, string lang)
        {

            //Create page (tab)
            //TODO: set public read permissions for pages(hopefully the module will inheirate the permissions).
            //TODO: new module is created with old module id. Why?
            DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs.TabController controller = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs.TabController();
            DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs.TabInfo newTab = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Tabs.TabInfo();
            //newTab.LocalizedTabName = lang; //read only.
            //DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.TabPermissionCollection tp = new DotNetNuke.Security.Permissions.TabPermissionCollection();
            //tp.
           
            //newTab.TabPermissions = new
            newTab.PortalID = 0;
            newTab.TabName = pageName;
            newTab.Title = pageName;
            newTab.Description = pageName;
            newTab.KeyWords = pageName;
            newTab.IsDeleted = false;
            newTab.IsSuperTab = false;
            newTab.IsVisible = true;
            newTab.DisableLink = false;
            newTab.IconFile = "";
            newTab.Url = "";
           

            int newTabId = controller.AddTab(newTab); //add new page.
            controller.ClearCache(0);
           
            // clear cache
            DataCache.ClearModuleCache(newTab.TabID);
          
            ///Add module to newTab
            DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ModuleInfo modInfo = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ModuleInfo();
            DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ModuleController mc = new DotNetNuke.Entities.Modules.ModuleController();
            modInfo.DisplayTitle = true;
            modInfo = mc.GetModuleByDefinition(0, "Text/HTML");   
            modInfo.Header = "header string";
            //modInfo.IsDefaultModule = true;//do we need this?
            modInfo.PaneName = "ContentPane";
            modInfo.TabID = newTabId;
            modInfo.ModuleTitle = title;
            modInfo.Header = title;
            //modInfo.DesktopModuleID = 68; //HTML text module
            //modInfo.ModuleID = 68;
            modInfo.PortalID = 0;
            modInfo.EndDate = System.DateTime.Now.AddYears(10);
            modInfo.InheritViewPermissions = true;
            modInfo.IsDefaultModule = true;
            modInfo.ModuleOrder = 1;
            modInfo.AllTabs = false;
           
            int newModuleID=mc.AddModule(modInfo); //add module to the page       

            DotNetNuke.Modules.HTML.HtmlTextInfo htmlinfo = new DotNetNuke.Modules.HTML.HtmlTextInfo();
            DotNetNuke.Modules.HTML.HtmlTextController htmlcont = new DotNetNuke.Modules.HTML.HtmlTextController();
            htmlinfo.ModuleID = newModuleID;
            htmlinfo.Content = content;
            htmlinfo.PortalID = 0;
            htmlinfo.IsPublished = true;
            htmlinfo.StateID = 1;
            modInfo.ModuleTitle = title;
           
            //htmlinfo.WorkflowID = 1;
            //htmlinfo.WorkflowName = "Direct Publish";
            //htmlinfo.Approved = true;
            //htmlcont.UpdateWorkflowID(modInfo.ModuleID, 0, 1);

            //htmlcont.GetWorkflowID(newModuleID, 0);
            //htmlcont.DeleteHtmlText(newModuleID, 0);
            //htmlcont.UpdateHtmlText(htmlinfo, htmlcont.GetMaximumVersionHistory(0));
            //htmlcont.
            mc.UpdateModule(modInfo);
           
           
            // clear cache
            DataCache.ClearModuleCache(newTab.TabID);
            DataCache.ClearTabsCache(0);
            DataCache.ClearCache();
            controller.ClearCache(0);
           
            return newTabId;  

        }

This actually has nothing really to do with IWeb because there are no calls at all to the IWeb code in the code sample (also there is no IWebCS only IWeb and IWebCF).

As to the problem, the process to create a new module, if you set either of these two lines to a non existant ModuleID, did it create the module using that ID?

modInfo.DesktopModuleID = 68; //HTML text module
modInfo.ModuleID = 68;
 

Yeah this is a tough one and I have no code samples to offer because I have never tried this.

The good news is you know it can be done because the Core DotNetNuke code is clearly doing this.

You will have to download the source version of DotNetNuke and run it using a debugger to trace the path and see exactly what it's doing when you do it normally through the UI.

When you figure it out it would be great if you posted your working code.