Hi I'm a fairly new to DNN development, only working on the platform since september. I have come across a problem, which no doubt has come up before but I'm not having much luck searching for a solution. So apologies if this has already been answered elsewhere.

Is it possible to display multiple modules on a page in anything but the default view?

We have developed several modules that utilise multiple view/edit screens and wish them to be used on pages with other modules.

For example if I had a page containing a "Friends Update" module that shows how many friends are online at the moment and an email module. If the email module has several controls say: "view inbox" and "view email" with the inbox being the default view, and the "view email" is a different module control. When I navigate to the "View Email" control, the "Friends Update" doesn't render. Is there any way around this?

If there is no way around this, how do people normally achieve this kind of functionality?

Thanks for reading,
Hope somebody can help!!
 

Is this impossible? 

Thanks for the info Joe. Creating my own solution isn't a problem and I can see several ways of getting around this issue, but I was wondering if there is any standard mechanism that people use to solve this issue as, I'm sure that it must crop up quite frequently. I'll have a look at the forum and blog code later to see how it's solved there. Thanks again.

Thanks Sebastian,

We had actually just decided to take a similar route when I read you reply. Good to know that this is how others get around the problem.