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12/4/2005 11:08 AM
 

I would like to suggest an enhancement to the URL data type.  I think it would be useful if the URL would allow entry of Title, Description, and Open Link in New Browser Window.  This would allow it to replicate the basic capability of the link module while providing more flexibilty for additional fields, sorting, etc.

 
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12/4/2005 1:38 PM
 

UDT is using the UrlControl of the DNN core; it doesn't have features like title or description. I would recommend that you add the missing values as separate columns as a first work around.

Stefan

 
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12/5/2005 2:19 PM
 
Stefan Cullmann wrote

UDT is using the UrlControl of the DNN core; it doesn't have features like title or description. I would recommend that you add the missing values as separate columns as a first work around.

To be useful, the link's text and target window would need to be built into the hyperlink tag.

 
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12/5/2005 3:58 PM
 

AllegrettoA, you are right; my answer did not really help.

I can't offer a working solution for your issue. UDT is in first place a table - it has columns and rows where you can store your values inside a cell. Usually you store just one value in each table cell.

It happens that the UDT has some more specialized data types like images, URL, html text or currency - these are not the standard data types like in System.Data.SqlDbType. It was not a too difficult job to introduce that kind of data types because they were already build in the DNN core or could be easily extended. But they always give us the possibility to store one value in each cell. The only other possibility is to store a value global for the whole module (for example the maximal width of the image).

So there are some attributes still missing for the new data types. You can’t define an alt tag inside an image type or a title for URL. What should we do? We still have one value for each cell. I could add a “hidden” column – only for the missing attribute or I will be tricky and store my settings in a XML fashion like <URL value=”file=7” description=”cool, it works”/> inside each cell.

I think that would not be too difficult to implement, but I, speaking for myself, don’t like that approach. Next time somebody will ask for an image hyperlink data type….

I would vote to have the possibilities of custom views. There should be possibilities to set up my own way of rendering the content of the UDT.

Stefan

 
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12/5/2005 6:12 PM
 

I would like to support Stefan's position, that this should be an enhancement of the URL-Control - that shall maybe not only save the link target but also caption, alternate text and target - maybe like Microsoft does it in Access/Jet Engine, where Links are a delimited list of properties. But - of cause - this would lead into mayor modifications of the core framework, that cannot be implemented over night. There are various requirements for the URL control, depending on the situation (insert images, link to portal pages (maybe even with parameters), portal files, external addresses etc.

As these are common requierements, we do currently not plan to include specific enhancements for the URL datatype in the UDT module.


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Sebastian Leupold

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