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3/13/2008 12:53 PM
 

I've looked, but haven't seen that the following issues/suggestions have been addressed elsewhere in the forum. Sorry if I these are available already or covered elsewhere. I'm about to try the non-released dev version to see if that resolves any of these.

1)  Ability to edit the CreatedDate field. I'm looking at using the Repository for a listing of news postings/press releases. I would like to be able to enter some old press releases, and would like to modify the date. The regular Announcements module allows this to be done. As it stands is the only way to alter some value in a SQL table?

2) Might there be some better wording for "Your Picture" when uploading a new item, say "Associated Picture", or "Article Picture"? As this comes right after the email and name fields, it makes one think it needs to be a photo of the person posting, but just as easily could be another picture associated with the posted item: indicating PDF, Word Doc, Zip File, or some other categories. (I'm using the Articles template, though I don't know this influences the title of the field.)

3) Browse for Picture assumes the picture is on the client's local machine. I would think that it would also be nice to be able to browse the web server's portal files as an option, if someone is using one of a limited number of standard images. I guess this could well introduce a security can of worms if the user is not privledged enough though.

4) When uploading a new item, "Article Summary" shows up without the actual text editing areas visible. The FCK Editor toolsbar(s) are visible, but I have to click on the 'up arrow' in the lower left corner to hide the toolbars andd cause the text entry area to appear. The functionality is all there, it just isn't obvious for a noob to figure this out and is inconsistant with the other instances of the editor.

By the way this is the absolute best module (aside from the generic Text/HTML module!) in DotNetNuke. Nice job in all aspects of this impressive tool Steve & crew.

 
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3/13/2008 1:23 PM
 

first thanks for the nice comments .. .now, onto the answers...

1) CreatedDate is actually populated in the stored procedure not passed from the form, so there's no way to edit it short of editing the table directly

2) all repository ouput is generated by templates, so if you're using the articles template, the files that format the output is located in /DesktopModules/Repository/Templates/articles, and all the text in the upload form is localized in the App_LocalResources file Form.ascx.resx, which would be found at /DesktopModules/Repository/Templates/articles/App_LocalResources. Edit the resource file and change the text to anything you'd like it to be.

 <data name="AuthorImage.Text">
  <value>Your Picture</value>
 </data>

3) In 3.01.14 you can replace the [IMAGE] token in the form.html file ( which is used to format the upload form ) with the new [URLCONTROLIMAGE] token. That new token will use the core URL Control, which will allow the use to upload a new file, select from an existing file on the portal, or enter a URL to an image file anywhere on any addressable web server.

4) open the form.xml file in your template folder and change the Height attribute for the SUMMARY token. The FCK editor's toolbar is much bigger than the old text editor and the default height isn't enough to show both the toolbar and the editing surface.

So, not too bad, you can fix 2 of your 4 issues right now, a 3rd could be fixed by upgrading to 3.01.14, and unfortunately you'll have to wait for 4.00.00 to fix your Date issue.

If you're interested in upgrading to 3.01.14 right now, there's a release candidate build available for download at
http://www.gooddogs.com/dotnetnuke/Downloads/tabid/57/Default.aspx

 

 
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