james kisamore wrote
thanks for the explanations......
this all ties into an issue i'm having involving maintaining the scroll position. i have a page with 4 xml packages on it. each xml package queries the database and pulls back 5 records. the first 2 are ok since they are near the top of the page. but the second two are below the horizon, requiring the user to scroll down to see them. if the user refreshes one of these two the page is reloaded and the user is returned to the top of the page rather than to the lower part of the page where they were. i've done a lot of research and posted this problem to several forums and i've received nearly 300 views but only one response. i was told to set the "maintainscrollpositiononpostback = "true"" in the web.config - but this had no effect. so they said i needed to set it on the page directive of the actual page holding the 4 xml packages - and this led to my need to understand the urls.
the page holding the 4 xml packages has this url:
http://localhost/wines5/Shop/tabid/68/Default.aspx
so....based on what you guys said.....this should be the Default.aspx page under wines5 right? - unfortunately i set the directive on this page and it too did nothing. i simply can not get it to maintain the scroll position :(
Hi,
Seems you were new in DNN, just like me in the past few month. But maybe you also new in asp.net. Now I have better understanding to DNN and how it works.
About your issue. I think, Its time for you to change the way or UI on how you think, how you want to achive the result. I think it was not related to the page url at least. I am not sure because I not really understand what you want to do.
Answering to your question, yes Default.aspx is under wines5. DNN using this single file to process all pages in the site. Anything you see in the url is not in the real physical
path. During loading URL Rewriter will transform the url into mapped or real url which is unseen by user browser. It is about Friendly URL as our friend post earlier.
Just an example your http://localhost/wines5/Shop/tabid/68/Default.aspx will be mapped to http://localhost/wines5/Default.aspx?tabid=68. Both URL gives you the same page. The first URL used by your DNN because of SEO optimization. Some of search engine will ignore address after ?. DNN application is Search engine friendly by default. You can change to human friendly so that you may see http://localhost/wines5/Shop.aspx. But this will not the solution to your problem.
I left using maintainscrollpositiononpostback in the past few years since AJAX technology raising. It was become history unless you still not using AJAX. It do nothing except scroll your loaded page into the last postback position (same page reloaded). It just like you using old ugly frame because you told that user refresh 1 of 2 page.maintainscrollpositiononpostback should work but since you use DNN, I am not sure where your page is, in module or else. Seem like you want to dynamically loading a few diffrent data into the page. To tackle the job, using AJAX is suitable but it is more complicated than normal postback. In DNN you have 2 choice to use AJAX for ASP.NET or AJAX inside JQuery by using javascript $.ajax(). ajax in jquery is more easier, less time to learn, you can load data from server to do processing in the browser or set it in any inner html element.
If you need more better response, title and your issue should be new/latest, interesting and clear. Another alternative you can get support by purchasing DNN pro if you want 
Using DNN you need to know DNN framework as well as the asp.net system because it would make your life easier.