Hi All,

If you look at a DNN file you can see a module has:

        <folder>
                <name>Smart-Thinker - UserGroup</name>
                <friendlyname>Smart-Thinker - UserGroup</friendlyname>
                <foldername>Smart-Thinker - UserGroup</foldername>
                <modulename>Smart-Thinker - UserGroup</modulename>
                <description>...</description>
                <version>04.03.01</version>
                <businesscontrollerclass></businesscontrollerclass>
            <modules>

(bear with me)

and then each control within the module has:

                <module>
                    <friendlyname>Smart-Thinker - UserGroup</friendlyname>
                    <controls>
                        <control>
                            <key>Settings</key>
                            <title>UserGroup Settings</title>
                            <src>UserGroupSettings.ascx</src>
                            <type>Admin</type>
                            <helpurl>http://www.smart-thinker.com</helpurl>
                        </control>

So, from what I can see by looking at the UI, the MODULE FriendlyName can be changed in the Host\Module Defintions, but the CONTROL FriendlyName can't be changed? (The Module FN is the one in the Module dropdownlist in admin mode).

If you look at the ModuleDefinitions table, it appears to store the MODULE FriendlyNames (so a this contains mutiple controls).
My requirement is to populate a dropdownlist with all the instances of a certain control (lets use UserGroup Setting (in the example above)), but I am not sure it is possible.

I can get a reference to the parent Module Defintion using:

            ModuleController moduleController = new ModuleController();
            DesktopModuleController desktopModuleController = new DesktopModuleController();
            ModuleInfo moduleInfo = moduleController.GetModuleByDefinition(this.PortalId, desktopModuleController.GetDesktopModuleByModuleName("Smart-Thinker - UserGroup").FriendlyName);

This would therefore NOT be reliant on the FN changing, which is good... but how do I get a list of all the controls within that Module Definition?

Does anyone else find the relationship between Modules/Definitions/Controls terribly confusing?!?!?

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