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7/2/2009 11:45 AM
 

I am running DNN 5.1 and form and List Module 5.1.  My concept was to allow the client to edit 1 table and then display that data in 2 or 3 different ways.  It seems like I should be able to do this and I got it working partially.

Manage - page that allows the user in role to view/edit/manage the data in the table (form and List Module).
http://live.fpparks.com/Programs/TeamStandingsScheduleManagement/tabid/106/language/en-US/Default.aspx 

View - page that allows the public to see the output.
http://live.fpparks.com/Programs/AthleticLeaguesandStandingsdynamic/tabid/107/language/en-US/Default.aspx 

To accomplish the above I added 1 FnL module to the Manage page (106) and configured things as you see.  Then on the View page (107) I used Add Existing module.  This worked twice as you can see.  On the View page I have two more copies of the FnL module properly showing the output from the module on the Manage page.  All 3 modules point to the same UDT.

Now the problems.  DNN only let me do the "Add Existing Module" routine twice.  When I try it a third time, it appears to work - I switch to (x) Add Existing, select the Manage page, select the FnL module and click Add; it then appears to be doing something - but when the page displays, there is no new module on the page.

My expectation is that I would be able to keep adding copies of the FnL module from the Manage page to the View page and configure the output of each to show different cross-sections of the data.

Is this a bug in DNN or FnL?  Is this a limitation of either (only 2 copies of a module allowed)?

After trying a number of times to get another copy of the module on to the page unsuccessfully, I got on the server and in to SMS and took a closer look at the Modules, TabModules and related tables... maybe it was being added elsewhere; to another page/tab or something?  Nope.  Add existing just keeps failing with no report of an error in the UI or the Event Viewer.

Additional Question - so it occured to me that there might be another module that will display output from an existing FnL/UDT.  I found that the Reports used to do this and will again someday.  Does anyone know of another solution to what I am trying to do?  Are there other modules (including ones that cost money) that can use the FnL/UDT as a DataSource?


- Accuraty / Jeremy
 
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7/2/2009 12:43 PM
 

Jeremy,

by default, DNN allows the same module only once per page - are you sure you got two copies of the same module added?

using a different renderer would be an option, unfortunately there is currently no Reports version supporting FnL, this package shall be released separately, for detailed questions, please use the Reports forum).


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7/2/2009 12:57 PM
 

Jeremy,

I don't know what is happening. What you are describing is best practise, done every day. I was even happy seeing the new support of mirrored content in DNN5.1. You should be able to mirror the module on as many pages you want. The only limitation is that you can not use the same instance more than one time on one page.

Currently I have no idea what is happening to you.

Andrew is going to add FnL support back to reports, and I want to offer also an UDT source for the XML module. I wrote also an connector to Google calendar which supports UDT/FnL as datasouce.

 
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7/2/2009 1:08 PM
 

You are correct, I got fooled.  I just went to the Manage page and changed Tied for one Softball Mon and one Softball Tue.  On the View page only the Softball Tue change showed up.


- Accuraty / Jeremy
 
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7/2/2009 1:35 PM
 

Thanks for the quick answers/feedback.  Maybe this is a feature suggestion then?  It seems very useful (to me) to allow completely different views of the same data.  In my case, if I had been able to do what I planned, the client would maintain one table for all the teams in multiple leagues.  Then on the view page (which originally didn't seem to me to need to be a separate page) show the data in the following example sets: 1. Standings for Softball Mon/Tue, 2. Standings for Softball Tue/Thu, 3. Standings for Mushball Sat, then 3 more modules showing the teams Number/Name/Captain for reference on the Schedule (Calendar, though no data is related or linked).  The way many of the Calendar products do, it would be nice to be able to add a 2nd or 3rd FnL module to a page and tell it to use the data from another FnL module.  Thanks again - Jeremy


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