Hi Guys,

I am new to DNN hence dont know best approach to take in implemention some funtionality.

I am currently trying to convert my web site to use the DNN way and one of my first hurdles is try to implement a user control I utilised in a master page.

I had a usercontrol  userinfo.ascx which basically displays two hyperlings Register | Login to non authenicated users.

And fo all authenticated user the follwoiing links Name | Inbox(msg count)| My Profile | Logout.

This user control was inserted as a TAG on the master pages implemented by all pages.

I suppose in DNN skins perform a similar funtinality in terms of standard layout in all your pages.

How can I achieve the same thing in DNN?

Yes, I am aware of the USER and LOGIN user control available to use in the skins oage.

But I want o go a step futher and have all these functinality available in one usercontrol package with other stuff and then insert this into my skins

Is this possible?

Thanks,
Abbey

Hi ,

Thanks for the prompt reply. I already had a skin obkject anyway .

I simply had to add the folowing server side script.

<script language="c#" runat="server">

    private DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalSettings _portalSettings;
    private DotNetNuke.Entities.Users.UserInfo _userInfo;
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        if (!IsPostBack)
        {
            _portalSettings =
                DotNetNuke.Entities.Portals.PortalController.GetCurrentPortalSettings();
            _userInfo = _portalSettings.UserInfo;

            // MessageController msgC
            if (Request.IsAuthenticated)
            {
                UserInfoGreetinglbl.Text = "Hello";
                Ventrian.PrivateMessages.MessageController msgCtrl = new Ventrian.PrivateMessages.MessageController();
                Ventrian.PrivateMessages.MessageStatisticsInfo msgInfo = msgCtrl.GetMessageCounts(_portalSettings.PortalId, _userInfo.UserID);

                HyperLink UserInboxLink = new HyperLink();
                UserInboxLink.CssClass = "SkinObject";
                UserInboxLink.NavigateUrl = ResolveUrl("~/UserInbox.aspx");

                if (msgInfo.InboxUnreadCount > 0)
                    UserInboxLink.Text = String.format("Inbox({0})", Convert.ToString(msgInfo.InboxUnreadCount));

                else
                    UserInboxLink.Text = "Inbox";

                MsgLinkPlaceHolder.Controls.Clear();
                MsgLinkPlaceHolder.Controls.AddAt(0, new LiteralControl("&nbsp;|&nbsp;"));
                MsgLinkPlaceHolder.Controls.AddAt(1, UserInboxLink);
            }
        }

    }

</script>

<dnn:USER runat="server" id="dnnUSER" /> <asp:PlaceHolder ID="MsgLinkPlaceHolder" runat="server"/>&nbsp;|&nbsp;<dnn:LOGIN runat="server" id="dnnLOGIN" />

Again thanks for the tip.

Regards,

Abbey