Hi !

I am just starting to learn how to develop dotnetnuke custom modules but I real need some guidance. I have developed a simple module with a view and edit controls. In the view control is retrieved from database and showed a list of projects like:

Project1 – Project title

After this I need to click in this item and jump to the project detail. In a regular ASP application I would have “Project1” as a link to another page, like:   ProgectDetail.aspx?ProjId=xx. What is the best way to do this with DNN ? Do I jump to another page where I will have another view control ? or can I somehow hide and show another control in the same page ? And how can I send the current project ID ?

 Thanks a lot for your help.

Best Regards

Rosorio  

You would do the following.

1. Create a new User Control (assume ProjectDetail.ascx)
2. Add this control to the Module Definition for your module and give it a key (Detail)
3. In your main user control create a link for the project detail as follows - EditURL(keyname, keyvalue, ControlKey), where keyname would be "ProjId" in your example, keyvalue would be the Id of the project as a string, ControlKey would be the key you gave the ModuleControl in (2) above.
4. In the UserControl you created for the detail, use code to obtain the "ProjId" from the Querystring and display the relevant project detail.

If you are using a DataGrid for the display of the projects you can use a ImageCommandColumn, as follows to replace step (3)

Add a register statement at the top of the ascx file.

<%@ Register TagPrefix="dnn" Namespace="DotNetNuke.UI.WebControls" Assembly="DotNetNuke" %>

Add the following column to the grid:

  <dnn:imagecommandcolumn CommandName="Edit" ImageUrl="~/images/edit.gif" EditMode="URL" KeyField="ProjId" />

This assumes that the ProjID is the primary key of the project object which is bound to the grid.

Hi !

Thanks a lot for your help. Worked great. I have inherit my new user control from Entities.Modules.PortalModuleBase, other way the control only showed an error when rendered in the site.

I have only one question. My new control is showed with the default container configured for the page. Can i change this ? Can i set it to have the same container as the main control (the one with the link) ?

Thanks again.
Rosorio