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1/10/2009 11:44 AM
 

Hi folks

I have been directed to Charles Nurse's brief introduction to this subject here, here and here. Now I have a specific question not answered there. Is there a description node under the desktopModule node, or under the moduleDefinition node, perhaps? If not how do I provide a description of each module within a package of modules?

Seems to me a pretty reasonable question. And I have lots more like it. Reverse engineering, and trial and error, are lousy ways to find out how this is meant to work, when the designers must know.

I appreciate that people are threatening to tell all in books that are slated to be published in three months time. Is it the plan to keep the rest of us in the dark? Is this the reason for no wiki? No explanations till the books hit the street and then only if you buy the book?

Kind regards

Geoffrey

 


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1/10/2009 3:48 PM
 

no, there is no description node, AFAIK the only place you can put a modle description is like the following:

<folders>
  <folder>
   <name>Blog</name>
   <friendlyname>Blog</friendlyname>
      <foldername>Blog</foldername>
   <modulename>Blog</modulename>
   <description>Blog Module for DNN 3.X and 4.x</description>

....

</folders>

I agree that reverse engineering isn't a great way to work these things out, but the other option was to hold up the release until all the documentation was in place. Whilst this would be ideal for dev's such as yourself, it hinders those who simply want the updated version. The documentation will be done in time, but the relevant resources are focussed on the 5.0.1/4.9.2 builds which resolve some issues that are causing users problems.

I answered the wiki question in another post of yours Geoffrey, but in simple terms, we tried the core module and found that it wasn't approriate at this time to be used, either as a wiki that the core updated but the community could view or else as a more classic wiki, hence why i'm looking into other wiki projects. Sadly, resourcing is again an issue, but we're working on it.

BTW, I believe the dnn 5 book that's coming out is written by a number of community members and does not involve any core team members or corporation staff, theres definately no aim to profit by withholding information,

Cathal


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1/10/2009 3:59 PM
 

Hi Cathal

Thanks for that. I won't bore you with all the different things that I have tried and that haven't worked. I suppose it is character building. But sometimes I wonder if someone, somewhere, isn't having a good laugh.

My current best guess is that you create a new package for each module, in which case you have a description node for that package. Is that right? Each module in a suite of modules is a new package? I haven't got it to work yet so I don't know.

On the Wiki issue, what happens is that the knowledge is scattered, like this: http://www.installationwiki.org/DotNetNuke

If there was somewhere I could record all the things I have tried that don't work I could save others the same agro. That's all.

Kind regards

Geoffrey

 


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