No, don't panic! It's not as bad as it sounds.

This is 7.0.5.
Running some tests after having this crazy idea of letting users subscribe (like with PayPal) to (child) portals.
But if I set the expiration date for the portal to the past the portal is more or less dead. Yes you can view it but on all pages is a message saying the portal is expired. This is also true for the Admin pages.

I was hoping to in some way be able to enable at least one page (tab) in the portal after having logged on so that I can have the portal owner renew his/her subscription from one page within the portal itself. Tried setting the expiration date to the future for one page but it seems the expiration date for the portal itself overrides the page expiration date. 

If I could this to work it seem to me to be more trustworthy to the user and I can then sleep good knowing the users is on the right portal and so on.

Any ideas or hints on how to go about with this issue?
Or just let me know if I have completely misunderstood anything.

Cheers
Mikael

Hi Michael,

Sorry if I wasn't explaining myself enough.
Yes, I could (and can) easily set a new expiration date on the portal in question.
But what I would like to have is the user subscribing to the portal be able to access at least one page on their portal where they can issue a payment through PayPal and once that transaction is completed the PayPal IPN would return to the portal in question and there I would automagically set a new expiration date for the portal. Now, PayPal routine I already have in place so this is not the issue.
The issue is that I can't have one page accessible on a portal that is expired.

One opening I see is to have a page on the root portal where child portal subscribers could issue their payments.
But then they would have to select _their_ portal and then issue the payment or in some way be able to log on to the root portal using their child portal credentials and by so be able to issue the payment for their portal only.
So if they could log on to their child portal and be able to access at least one page (even if the portal as whole is expired) they could issue their payment from within there.

Does this make it more clear?

Cheers
Mikael

Thanks Steven,

Yes, that's the scenario.
Good to know I'm not missing the obvious so I'll proceed with some kind of centralized management.

Funny you mention the portal signup module form Onyaktech.
I _have_ looked at this module recently and it was the starting point for what I'm about to do now.
As it doesn't work on anything passed early DNN 5's I couldn't really use it.
But taking the ideas from that module I have written my own portal signup module now.
In there I also save extended custom details for the portal into a separate custom table so I'm sure I can get something wired up to have the portal subscribers manage their subscriptions from a centralized place.

With this I consider this thread resolved.
Cheers
Mikael