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7/19/2006 8:13 AM
 
Steve Webster

Joined: 1/9/2006
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I stuggled understanding how to set the blog up in the same way as dotnetnuke.com as I could only ever create one root blog.

In order to create multiple root blogs in the same way as dotnetnuke.com each user has to create their own blog manually.

Now what I would like is the ability for an admin user to create these root blogs on a users behalf.
 
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7/19/2006 8:16 PM
 
Frog Skin

Joined: 9/29/2005
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 SchelianHP Im sorry but if this sites uses the blog component out of the box default then can I have a copy of the blog module this site uses.

Because the version I have 3.02.00 running on DNN 4x will NOT ALLOW more than one root blog.

So please read this thread and show the community some respect and explain how the hell you can say that the module out of the box provides the functionaily that is evident on this site and that is MULTIPLE ROOT BLOGS.

Ill now go back and read the hacks that apparently make this work.

Cheers
 
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7/19/2006 8:42 PM
 
cathal connolly


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I can assure you that we are using a default install of the blog module. I'm sure Hans-Peter would have responded to this thread with further details by now normally, but he has been away from the project for some time with personal matters. If I get a chance I'll discuss the blog with the dotnetnuke.com site maintainers and see if I can get a step by step guide on how to your desired setup.

Frogskin, perhaps some patience and courtesy would be more approriate than abusing Hans-Peter, after all he donated the original code as well as spent many hours supporting and developing it.

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7/19/2006 8:57 PM
 
Frog Skin

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Ok I have found what the problem is and why he says it all works and the rest of the people in this thread say it doesnt work.

The problem is you can only have ONE ROOT BLOG per user. So if you are the Super Admin and you add the blog module to a page, it creates the first root blog and thats IT. You CANT as that user create another root blog. You can setup a page for another user to have a blog and you can add the modules, BUT THAT USER has to CREATE the blog if they want a ROOT BLOG.

This also raises another point that would be a nice feature to have and that is the ability to have more than one user post to the same blog. So to understand where Im coming from is we use DNN for our company Intranet and I wanted to setup a blog for the Engineers to post to, something they can all post to with information about stuff they have worked or problems they have solved.

You cant do that as far as I can see, but admittedly I havent tested this any further as I have just realised the limitation of this module.

Cathal: I havent abused Peter at all, but felt I was restrained. Yes Peter has donated his time, but if he isnt willing to help with his creation then maybe he should host it on his own site and it not be a CORE module.

This whole thread has revolved around this module not behaving the way Peter says it works, yet instead of looking into why people would say that, he treats them as stupid by telling them it works as its supposed too, which contradicts what this whole thread is about.

Congrats to him supplying his time and his code and all that he has done so far, but if hes going to respond to people in the manner he has in this thread then he should be prepared for people respond in kind.
 
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7/19/2006 9:53 PM
 
Frog Skin

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Ok I have done some moe experimenting with the module and this is what I have learnt.

The module only allows one root blog per user regardless of the permissions the user has within a portal.

So to create more than one root blog in a single portal you have create the page for each blog, however as an admin you can only create one root blog.

To create a second root blog you need to then log in as that user and they must have edit permissions for the module on the page you have added their blog to.

Also the blog module will only let you post to your root blog and child blogs, you cant have more than one root blog per user and be able to post to it.

So in summary I think the core design would need to be changed to allow the functionality that most people in this thread are looking for. The reason I think that is it would seem that everything at a code level works off your UserID and therefore this is how the above restrictions are applied. (Thats a guess based on the behaviour during testing, I havent bother ro read the code.)

So here are the features Im looking for in the blog module:

1. An administrator can set up as many root blogs as they want per portal

2. Settings within a blog to identify the blog owner and therefore allow them to permit other users to be able to post to their blog.

3. A property in the blog role that allows to you chose the blogs that appear in the role. Currently it will show all blogs if the module setting is not set to a specific blog, however as soon as you set a blog module to display only a specific blog the blog role no longer displays all the other blogs. Same with the blog search module.

So hopefully this explains why people in this thread are not seeing how to implement the same functionailty as on this site. It can be done and I for one appologise to Peter as I said it cant be done. Well it can but it is with a different focus and drivers in mind that it can be done.

Point to note with the setup on this site, anyone of the blog owners can not post an entry to anyone else blog even if they wanted to as the limitations in the module wont allow it.

Cheers
 
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