I'm about to suffer from a serious sense of humor failure. I've been following Michael Washington's DNNdevGuide trying to develop a custom module. Now this document is a bit sketchy to say the least. I've been busy with this for 2 weeks now, something that should have kept me busy for 1 or 2 days max. I've finally got to the stage where I run the SQL script to create the database tables and stroed procedures. Now the .pdf guide says, and I quote:

"From the Module Definitions menu, select Create New Module"

OK

"The DNN_Survey.dnn file (created in the earlier step) will be detected. Select it from the drop-down and click the Install link."

Will be detected? will? WILL? what if it does not get detected? What the heck do i do? how does this detection thingy work? is there a work around? Is there some other document i can follow that does not make so many assumptions? Please anyone help!

I'm starting to sound like a stuck record, please help! please help! please help!

Forgive me if i sound a bit aggrovated, cause i am, the minute i resolve an issue, the very next step raises more issues!

Thanking you in advance for your help.

Julian

Wow that's humbling but thats a good thing. The document was out of date the day it came out because DNN keeps changing. But of course you can't expect DNN not to constantly change. I guess I could keep updating the .pdf but I choose to write tutorials on the newer stuff. I will probably update the .pdf in a few months if there are more serious changes.

Now, as to how hard it is to make a module with DNN. It should not be something that takes 2 weeks! Everything I have been doing is to remove this by trying to show how easy it can be. I strongly recommend that you simply go through these tutorials in this order:

Super-Simple Module (DAL+)

Super-Fast Super-Easy Module (DAL+)

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Michael Washington
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Hi, those two links did the trick, I actually learned more about how DNN handles modules using these short simple tutorials than with the developers guide. I think next time someone updates the dev guide, all they need do is add a link to yur site.

Once again, thank you very much

Julian