Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but I recently upgraded from DotNetNuke 4.55 to 4.8. My entire site consists of around 15 custom modules that I have written. There used to be a link under Host/ Module Definitions, that allowed you to create the DNN file and an installable Zip file for any given Module. For some reason I can't seem to find that anymore. Does anyone know where that went? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Actually, I figured out what the issue was. In the admin\ModuleDefinitions\EditModuleDefinition.ascx.vb file the following line is not working correctly:

Public ReadOnly Property ModuleActions() As ModuleActionCollection Implements Entities.Modules.IActionable.ModuleActions
            Get
                Dim objDesktopModules As New DesktopModuleController
                Dim mid As Integer
                If Not (Request.QueryString("desktopmoduleid") Is Nothing) Then
                    mid = Int32.Parse(Request.QueryString("desktopmoduleid"))
                Else
                    mid = Null.NullInteger
                End If
                Dim objDesktopModule As DesktopModuleInfo = objDesktopModules.GetDesktopModule(mid)
                Dim Actions As New ModuleActionCollection
                'If (Not objDesktopModule Is Nothing) AndAlso Request.IsLocal Then

                I changed the line to:
                If (Not objDesktopModule Is Nothing) Then
                    If Not objDesktopModule.IsAdmin Then
                        'Create the DirectoryInfo object for the folder
                        Dim folder As New DirectoryInfo(Common.Globals.ApplicationMapPath & "\DesktopModules\" & objDesktopModule.FolderName)
                        If folder.Exists Then
                            Actions.Add(GetNextActionID, Services.Localization.Localization.GetString("PrivateAssemblyCreate.Action", LocalResourceFile), ModuleActionType.AddContent, "", "", EditUrl("desktopmoduleid", mid.ToString, "package"), False, SecurityAccessLevel.Host, True, False)
                        End If
                    End If
                End If
                Return Actions
            End Get
        End Property

Once I made that change, the Create Module Package link showed up correctly when you are on the Edit Module Definition Page.

Actually I think that is a new "feature" added in the 04.08.00 version. Although I can't find the forum post offhand, I recall that there was some discussion of the danger of allowing a host user (who was not a module developer) to create a module package from an existing module then distribute it or try to re-install it.  Apparently as a quick solution, the Request.IsLocal check was added to this line with the assumption (probably true in most cases) that a developer would be working on a local installation.

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