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10/3/2011 2:13 PM
 
Nelson Fernandez

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What is a good way to implement a template system to allow users to customize the layout of my module? I would imagine I need to define my own tags and then replace them with controls/data. But is there a common method (tutorial) to doing this and/or is there stuff in the DNN API to facilitate this?
 
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10/3/2011 7:37 PM
 
cathal connolly


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typically modules implement this by using the core support for token replace - see http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Wiki/Page/IPropertyAccess.aspx . This allows you to let users specify html/script in your template and imbed the relevant pieces of data with tokens e.g. [MyModule:SomeData]
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oh, and I should mention that as long as you code it correctly you can use the existing core tokens -see http://www.dotnetnuke.com/Resources/Wiki/Page/Tokens.aspx
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10/4/2011 12:29 PM
 
Nelson Fernandez

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Thanks. Will this work with controls also? I have a few controls I want to allow users to layout. The controls of course have code-behind that needs to run so it's more than just HTML replacements.
 
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10/4/2011 9:30 PM
 
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no, controls wont work within the template and token replace is just a way to inject text - whilst this text can be the output of controls the actual control definitions themselves can't be injected as it's just pure text and not something that is executed - you can of course use something such as razor and do the compilation prior to output (whilst it's possible to do this with user controls/server controls it requires full trust due to useage of CodeDOM)
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