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11/6/2011 1:07 PM
 
Jeremy Farrance


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I have a demo DNN site where we are working on a new skin and some Razor stuff. To push us forward and force a little learning I not only upgraded the site from 6.0.2 to 6.1.0 but also turned on Client Resource Management. Getting JS and CSS files combined is great. We have a few busier sites in the past where we used PageBlaster to do this.

One thing that came up right away was how hard it is to tell where each CSS of JS file starts/ends AND exactly which file it is that you are looking at. We immediately realized that we needed to go find every file that was getting combined and put some kind of start/header comment on it. Here is what we settled on:

/*** /Portals/0/ portal.css ***/

After working with this for a bit and seeing different developers make slightly different choices on what to put in the comment-header, I finally realized - why the heck isn't this an option in Client Resource Management? So I guess I am floating a feature request. Anyone else agree this makes a great deal of sense? I can also see making it a portal admin or site admin (host) option to turn on/off as needed and be off by default.

Maybe it is already there and I just didn't notice it in the docs?

Maybe this idea is moot because there is some way to easily turn on/off the JS/CSS file combining when needed for debugging that I have not found or seen yet?

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11/6/2011 2:15 PM
 
cathal connolly


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i think thats a good idea-currently I am setting debug=true in web.config to disable CDF when testing items such as this but a header would be handy-please record it as an enhancement request at support.dotnetnuke.com
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11/6/2011 8:51 PM
 
Jeremy Farrance


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11/6/2011 10:50 PM
 
Ian Robinson


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Jeremy Farrance wrote:

Maybe this idea is moot because there is some way to easily turn on/off the JS/CSS file combining when needed for debugging that I have not found or seen yet?

I am working on an admin module for managing the related web.config settings. You can read more about it on the project home page, and download the installable packages as well. The intent is to make these types of configuration options a lot easier to manage directly from the web site.

While I've tested quite a bit locally and am pretty confident the module won't break anything, it's still new so I would highly recommend testing the module out on your staging environment before installing it on production, just to be safe.

Additionally, I've created a logging provider for the underlying ClientDependency Framework (CDF) that powers the Client Resource Management features. What it does is forwards any CDF events to the DNN event viewer. You can also read more about it - and download the installable packages.

Let me know if you have any thoughts/feedback! (And you can open issues on Github for new features/bugs as well if you are so inclined)

Thanks,

Ian

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