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7/23/2014 12:01 AM
 

Hi,

I would like to add a searchable price list database to my DNN site. Currently the pricelist database is on an ASP.NET web site, sitting inside a folder with a "dot mdb" file extension. The database was built using Microsoft Access.
When the visitor to the ASP.NET site types in the word Drill into the search box, it returns a product description and price for all items in the database that contain the word Drill. The tables in the database have a number, description, price etc' in the columns.
Please note the original ASP.NET site is not a shopping cart, just a static dot net site, no SQL server involved.
I did not build the original ASP.NET web site so a bit lost on how to copy the functionality into our new DNN site

Any thoughts or assistance is appreciated.

 
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7/23/2014 3:22 AM
 

You can use Form and List (http://dnnfnl.codeplex.com/) to achieve this.

If you think about switching to an online store at a later point, have alook at NB_Store (http://nbstore.codeplex.com/) - you can use this as well for only displaying the products, prices etc., without shopping functionality. But if you want to switch to e-commerce, you have a lot of things already done.

Happy DNNing!
Michael


Michael Tobisch
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7/23/2014 4:34 AM
 
if you don't want to migrate the data, you'll need a module that is using ado or odbc connection to your database and display the data.
otherwise you might migrate the data into your DNN database and use a module like DNN Reports to access it.

Cheers from Germany,
Sebastian Leupold

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7/24/2014 12:35 AM
 
Perhaps a super simple solution would be the iframe module if that still works. I believe it also had the ability to use a query string from the page it's housed on, into the "framed" results page if you wanted a more dynamic/integrated solution without doing a lot of overhauling.
 
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7/24/2014 3:51 PM
 
As michael said you can go for form and list and input the data there , if you can export the data to a csv, form and list can import that

I have used that same solution for this

http://www.henradsoftline.nl/Radiator...

Its a large list of data and all the search filter and sorting is done cleitnside with some javascript

If I had to redo the above now I would go with putting it in dnn database and read out the data from the tables with 2sexyconten end then either use the same setup or build a seach interface with c# razor tempalte

 
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