Hi all,

I need to develop an application that holds a menu, multiple (>10) grids, multiple wizards, edit screens, insert/add screens, settings screens, etc, etc. I am looking at how best to do this within DNN and I'm not sure I can find a sattisfactory solution.

The idea of having each of these "screens" in a single module is just to much, simply managing the uploads/updates of all the different modules is enough to keep me from going there. I am currently looking around for ways to develop an "application" in a single DNN module, but that seems quite hard to do as well.

I am still fairly new to ASP, coming from PHP and others, and I just found out it is not possible to dynamically include ASP files, so that kind of got me off the idea of doing it in a single module.

I've read about some ways to simulate it, but it doesnt sound too safe and you cant use too complex ASP files I believe.

I do see different DNN modules however that are quite complex and seem to be built up out of various ASP pages. Are there any documents on this, tutorials, any experts or people that have experience in doing something similar?

I have been through the forum a bit and found some posts that were close to what I wanted, however the solution was not fitting for me.

To try and describe a bit more what I want for the application: there will be a menu on the left hand side, fixed, controlling the entire app, the right hand side is then reserved for whichever item is active or clicked, clicking the menu will reload the page, holding the menu on the left but showing a different "page" on the right hand side, etc, etc. quite simple, yet with a lot of different "pages".

Thanks in advance for any help.

Regards,

Adriaan

There are a number of different ways you could proceeded.

But it seems to me - the first thing you need to get your head around is how DNN works.

FIrstly, the menu - the functionality you are talking about in terms of a menu is pretty standard fare in DNN.

Your menu could be embedded as a part of the SKIN design for your site. 

THe DNNMENU or SOLPART menu skin control can automatically do what you are looking for here.
And dnn with dynamically handle the generation of your menu and runtime - this is not something you
need to code for - just put the MENU control on your skin with some config settings and stylesheet info
and DNN will do the rest for you automatically.

Secondly, site structure,  the first thing to understand about DNN is that there are actually no ASP web pages
anywhere in the DNN system.

DNN in based around a set of WEB CONTROLS that are all dynamically loaded at RUNTIME onto one somewhat complex
default.aspx web page.

The look and feel of this default.aspx web page is control by a SKIN.ascx web control and a set of .css style sheets.

The defualt.aspx web page loads the SKIN.ascx control dynamically at runtime - and then the controls defined in the SKIN.ascx file
are used to load the current page based on the setting of a TABID querystring value.

All this is handled automatically for you by DNN.

WESTA