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5/2/2006 11:49 AM
 
Dylan Barber


www.braindice.com
Joined: 4/25/2003
Posts: 715

How was this set up here?  How did we get all the blogs listed like they are on the blogs page here - I cant seem to duplicate it on my site - did I miss something in setting up?

Help please

Dylan Barber http://www.braindice.com - Dotnetnuke development classes - skins and modules
 
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5/4/2006 8:20 AM
 
Rocky Moore

www.ReflectedThought.com
Joined: 10/18/2004
Posts: 106
I am curious about this also! 

As it stands the blog module appears to be quite limited.  Having only one root blog per portal is not a good idea.  I would think that there would be an option to allow a root blog on every page the use places a blog module.  Also have the ability to aggregate in one display a list of root blogs if desired.  The child blog option appears to be simply "categories" of posts.

It would be nice to place a module on one page that has a list of blogs and when you click on one, it takes you to the page with the selected blog.  Then each individual blog can contain categories (child blogs if you desire) for the posts.

Guess I am spoiled with .Text blogs.  I enjoy thier design for multiple blogs on a single site with categories specific to each blog.

Maybe this abiltiy already exits and I am just not finding the solution.  Any help appreciated!
Rocky Moore
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5/4/2006 9:56 AM
 
Dylan Barber


www.braindice.com
Joined: 4/25/2003
Posts: 715

I was able to kind of get mine like it is here - if you have access to the database simply go in and set the ParentBlogID to -1 for the blogs you want to be 'top-level' in the blog_blogs table

 

I dont know if this may break anything else (I do get an error with the list module but it doesnt affect how it functions) but it seems to work (

More testing should be done on this hack and I too think you should be able to set up blogs on any page and then categories rather than just one blog with a lot of sub blogs

Dylan Barber http://www.braindice.com - Dotnetnuke development classes - skins and modules
 
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5/4/2006 5:20 PM
 
Rocky Moore

www.ReflectedThought.com
Joined: 10/18/2004
Posts: 106
Here are a few things I discovered so far:

If you are working with child blogs, you can place a "/BlogID/x/ParentBlogID/x/ " in the parameter list as would happen if you select a child blog from the blog list.  If however you leave the parentBlogId off, it is mess up the blog roll list (not show the child blog). 

If I set a child blog's ParentBlogId to -1, I receive a SQL server exception in the title of the blog roll list module and the blog management module (the one that says add blog entry, blog settings, view my blog).   The blog roll list actually shows the blogs properly, but still has the error in store procedure's query.  Would also be nice in the blog roll list to have an option which can limit the list to only those of the current root blog.

The blog search module has a list of all the root blogs as would be expected and seems to handle the multiple root blogs, but it would also be nice in that module to have an option to exclude other blogs from being displayed.

One other thing I would like to see is an option for the display of the Blog Author, Title, Description and Created At time.  As it currently is displayed, if you glance at the page, you might confuse the date of the blog creation with the data of the last post and think that the blog has not been updated for some time.  Would be nice to see these fields with display options so that some or all of them can be eliminated.

At this point, it looks like having multiple root blogs on a portal will cause you to lose the functionality of the Blog Roll list module and the blog management module.  The others appear to handle multiple root blogs fine with my limited testing, could still be some issues.  This is a good blog module, but it could be made a little more flexible for multiple blogs as is common in the world today.
Rocky Moore
www.RockyMoore.com
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5/4/2006 6:02 PM
 
Rocky Moore

www.ReflectedThought.com
Joined: 10/18/2004
Posts: 106
Quick fix..  The SQL server exceptions I received were due to a call to "m_oBlogController.GetBlogByUserID(Me.PortalId, Me.UserId)" checking for edit rights.  The problem is the in the stored procedure GetBlogByUserId.  The sub query in the procedure expects only one root blog with edit rights for the user.  The fix is just to add a "top 1" to the sub query like:

SELECT @BlogID =
(
   SELECT top 1 BlogID
   FROM dbo.Blog_Blogs
   WHERE UserID=@UserID AND
         PortalID=@PortalID AND
         (
             ParentBlogID IS NULL OR
             ParentBlogID=-1
         )
)

This causes a side effect though.  The Action menu on the Blog roll list module and the links in the blog management module (where it has options for blog settings, add entry, view my blog) will not work correctly and will point to the first blog the user has rights to edit.  If you use the action menu on your blog summary module, it will go to the correct blog.

Other than the above though, I did not observe any other problems, however, I only performed a few minutes of testing.

Note: If every user that has the ability to edit a blog only has one root blog, this will not be an issue and the change above should not be required.  This is only required if a given user has more than blog to which they have edit rights.

Rocky Moore
www.RockyMoore.com
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