So on the never ending upgrade treadmill, I upgraded to DNN 5.2.0 a couple of weeks ago. This now moves us away from .Net v2 and SQL 2000, and probably leaves behind the other site I vaguely support (www.sirthomasblackwells.co.uk) since they are on SQL2K. The upgrade to 5.2.0 brought some problems, since web.config wasn’t correctly update to reflect the new caching providers. A bit of research tho...

Well I thought it had all gone smoothly, then I tried to send an email out to the club. Oops, the module we use based on some code I acquired from DNN.com.au decided to fall over. Essentially it was using an out of date method for doing the SQL calls. So I thought now is the time to upgrade from Visual Studio 2003 to 2008, from .Net 1 to 3.5, and DNN 4 to 5. What a major upheaval. I’ve now re-wo...

I’ve done a little work on the site in the last week or so, after a long period of relative inactivity. This is primarily around making joining the club more visible and easy to do. So the Store is now visible in the Join menu, allowing people to register on the site whilst going through the process of paying for membership. This process also automatically gives new members access to the members a...

Well the time had come at last to make the leap to DotNetNuke 5. I’d been sitting and watching the bugs on Gemini until there didn’t seem to be any critical ones left over. This seems to have happened (near enough) with 5.1.2. DNN 5 has also impacted the Events module, with the team having to work around a few bugs in the early versions of DNN 5. So I’ve made the leap of faith and hope there aren...

Well we released a new version of the Events module last week (5.0.1). Fortunately things were quiet for me on the work front. Whilst we believed we had tested upgrade situations pretty well, even asking for data from various quarters to help with this, we still missed a couple of scenarios. One person has been using the Events module from it’s early days. (I have as well, but via a forked versio...

Well I’ve taken the plunge and updated the site from Events version 4.0.3 to Events 5.0.0. This is a really major leap in the module, though to be honest, the users of the website will not notice anything substantial. I guess the biggest visible change is the addition of the icon bar. Instead of having to scroll all the way to the bottom of the page to get to these links, they now appear at top r...

Well what has been going on recently on the website? Minor changes really, since my major focus has been on finalising the Events module for its next release. In any case, here’s a summary of what’s happened:- Upgrades to the main DotNetNuke framework to version 4.9.2. DNN is now in two version – Professional edition, which is paid for and comes with committed support. Community edition, which...

One thing the team has spent a lot of time on over the last months is the templating of the Events module. This is by no means all encompassing, but does allow templating of various elements of the module, including:- Detail View - most elements are templateable, but excludes the reminder fields, enrollment fields and the new enrollee list New Event Description Tooltips Emails Enrollment - a...

It is now possible to have all day events, whereby the event is marked as all day, and the start and end time is hidden in all views. This actually sets the start time to 00:00 and the end time to 23:59. It does not limit an event to a single day, it is still possible to alter the end date, so as to have a multi-day all-day event. We have also been request to add an option to enable the hiding of...

Well it's been a while since I posted here, but much work has been done on the Events module in the intervening time, and also a busy time at work, which has kept me away. A couple of months ago I added an Icon Bar to the module. This Icon Bar can be placed at top right of the module, or at bottom centre (which may be of use for those people using the Small theme). It replaces the previous Add Eve...