I am developing the DNN4 module; which has multiple ASCXs. These ASCXs will be hosted in different pages in the portal. It’s a mini Enterprise Inventory Module; having views like Procurement, Issue, Sale and Report.

Q1

I am confused to see that one can have multiple VIEW definitions (ASCXs) for one module; but dropping the module on the page show all the VIEWs. So should I define multiple modules in the portal? I-e Inventory-Procurement, Inventoru-Issue and so forth.

Q2

Whats the mechanism to find the URL where the “sibling” view is dropped; e-g Inventory-Procurement is on TabId = 201 and Inventory-Issue is on TabId = 203; how Inventory-Procurement instance can find where Inventory-Issue instance exists?

To answer Q1 - The way people use Multiple Views is to add the Module to the page and delete the Views they don't need.

Alternatively, using the other approach (Q2), there are a number of ways this could be done.  When I develop a module that could have different parts on different pages, I usually create a "Setting" in the Settings page where I can identify the page where the related module is located.

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Charles Nurse Chief Architect Evoq Content Team Lead, DNN Corp. Want to contribute to the Platform project? - See here

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I have developed many modules where I use one "container" and then load user controls into that container, depedning on PostBAck events or querystring parameters.

The problem you are having with Page.IsPostBAck always being false, is probably because of when you are loading the control in the Page Life Cycle.

If you check out this MSDN Article you will see that PostBack is processed before Page Load.  Therefore you need to load your child controls in Page_Init, so the "structure" of Page is created before the postbacks are processed.  Other wise the Postback processing cannot find your control.

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Charles Nurse Chief Architect Evoq Content Team Lead, DNN Corp. Want to contribute to the Platform project? - See here

MVP (ASP.NET) and ASPInsiders Member