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1/17/2007 2:56 PM
 
Michelle Tarby

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We've got event data in a SQL table other than the native DNN structure.  Is it possible to pull our events directly from there to feed the calendar?
 
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1/17/2007 8:09 PM
 
Alan Vance

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I would probably need to know more...Are you getting all other DNN data from SQL Server?  DNN has a provider model...I guess you already know that.  You did not say what kind of Database.  If you are using SQL Server for DNN, the most direct way of doing this would be to write a SQL Server DTS package (using ODBC) and load the data into the Event Tables...other than that, I would need to know more.
 
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1/17/2007 8:15 PM
 
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mtarby wrote
We've got event data in a SQL table other than the native DNN structure.  Is it possible to pull our events directly from there to feed the calendar?

probably not. There are at least 2 issues:

  1. you would need to make sure that the table definition of your own table is exactly the same as the events module table
  2. as Alan says: dnn uses dataproviders, which are set up in one place, and are used by all modules. You cannot have one module pull data from another database (ofcourse you code that yourself of course)

What i would is the to have the two databases  (DNN and your external event db) "talk" to eachother. You could do that in several ways. You could update the dnn event module tables with your own date by way of a scheduled job in SQL server. You could also build a trigger in your source db that automatically updates your dnn db with any changes in events.

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1/18/2007 9:43 AM
 
mahe

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Hi,

I do have same requirement,but i am developing a custom module.I successfully developed the module to work with DNN database,but my actual requirement is that i should get data from other SQL server database.

One way could be ,stick with my already developed module working with DNN tables and update my original custom database table with updations made to Dnn table.

If I made the table in my custom SQL server database similar to DNN table(with additional fields like moduleID etc) ,is it possible to work straightaway(making updations,insertions etc) on my custom SQL Server database?

Please shed some light.

Thanks

Mahesh

 

 

 
 
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1/18/2007 10:58 AM
 
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It's fairly straightforward to add SQL Server Triggers to the Table (i.e. On Insert, Update, Delete) to update another table in the Database...
 
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