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2/23/2008 1:15 AM
 
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Hi

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to break a long text module up into pages.

I have a page with a text module in it. There is a lot of writing in it which makes it quite long and difficuld to find a certail part of the text. 

I want it broken into pages where there would be a line with a page number at the bottom and when the text was printed it would print each page to line up with the numbers at the bottom.

Much appreciated!

 
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2/23/2008 1:41 PM
 

Prinny777 wrote

Hi

I was wondering if anyone could tell me how to break a long text module up into pages.

I have a page with a text module in it. There is a lot of writing in it which makes it quite long and difficuld to find a certail part of the text. 

I want it broken into pages where there would be a line with a page number at the bottom and when the text was printed it would print each page to line up with the numbers at the bottom.

Much appreciated!

kind of a confusing way to do it.  You could use page references I guess.  There is a page break feature in the editor...but I dont' know how that works.

You could set up a series of pages, each with one text module in the page, then plop the text in for that page, and create links refering all over the place.

The fact is DotNetNuke CAN do whatever you want..but I think your looking more for a custom module to do specifically what you want rather than the txt/htm module.

Here is a simple idea to get it done I think, but requires a bit of work.

1st put a link module in your left pane

2nd make your main content page(page 1), and put a link in the link module to that page(or....the page your on).

3rd Create page 2, usign the txt module again, ptu your page 2 text in there, on the page 2 also drop the EXISTIGN link module into the left pane, and add a link to it to page two..

and so on.  this will give you a "virtual" menu that stays with each page.

I've one something similar here: http://www.dnnreactor.com/Menu/Appetizers/tabid/96/Default.aspx

This is a series of pages using the link module as a table of contents, and the HTML/TEXT module as the content of each page, even usign CSS and stuff in the module to make it look cool.

Josh

 

 


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2/23/2008 7:39 PM
 

If you're planning on having lots of multi-page articles, you should consider using a module designed for the purpose. Look for these on Snowcovered or DNN Marketplace:

  • Bonosoft Multi Page Content - Nice module but developer seems a twit
  • Ghost River Pagemaster - Adds very useful image upload and resizer
  • Ventrian News Articles - Get Ventrian's entire suite of modules no matter what
  • and a bunch of publishing modules from DNNMasters, Enage and others.

A major part of using DNN effectively is to spend a lot of time researching and assessing modules and suppliers. Make sure you look for paging as a required feature.

Rob

 
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3/11/2008 2:36 AM
 

You could also use the UDT user defined table module, and just add one column, in that column assign a rich txt editor, then add new rows for each page.

By setting a table to the same size in each row you will acheive a uniform look and feel, add the page / next page to the UDT and your done.

 
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3/11/2008 7:51 AM
 

Pete wrote

You could also use the UDT user defined table module, and just add one column, in that column assign a rich txt editor, then add new rows for each page.

By setting a table to the same size in each row you will acheive a uniform look and feel, add the page / next page to the UDT and your done.

you can also use the master - detail option, if your pages consist of title and content, showing titles as a list of clickable items linked to the associated details page.


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