Entries for June 2008

Testing through the Release Process for version 4.0.1 has highlighted a few issues, one bigger than the others. These will be fixed in a 4.0.2 release. Setting of Columns for List Views In version 4.0.1, I made some extra columns available for the list view. These extra columns changed the column number of some of the other columns. So for instance EventName was column 3 but is now column 4. In th...

I spotted a bug in metaPost (I use Windows Live Writer for creating this blog, and it posts via metaPost into Ventrian NewsArcticles, which is what you see here), where when I did an update to a post, it created a new page in the post, rather than update the existing one. Don Worthley at IT Crossing has once again come up with the fix while I slept, ready to be tested. So here we go.... Yep, it wo...

I decided it was about time I created some sort of consolidated What's New for the members. I haven't done this for all users, because I'm using the reports module, and the query is getting long enough as it is. Besides most of the new information is in the members area anyway, but it could be used for all users depending on yoru security requirements. To the left is what it looks like in the end....

Well I've found a couple of bugs in the events module over the last week. Tooltip End Date Tooltips in list view were ending up with the wrong end date. This was due to a previous change I did, where I took the duration of the event and turned it into days (divided by 1440). This was as an option for display in List View. Unfortunately in the code I was overwriting the value of duration that was ...

One of the negatives of the recent update of the the website theme, was the removal of the easy access buttons along the top of the page. So after many complaints (well one actually), I've put them back. A neat thing about these buttons is that they are set up to be different when logged in or not, so that members of the club get easy access to the most frequently used areas of the site that are s...

Ventrian NewsArticles on the site has now gone up to version 0.6.11. This is basically a bug fix upgrade. Also metaPost has moved to 1.2.1 to support some changes in the latest versions of NewsArticles, in particular the change of the Summary being mandatory to the Detail being mandatory. This also involved the update of the various pages using NewsArticles to ensure posts with no Summary still g...

Minor updates today. One to update the framework to DNN 4.8.4, which has some security fixes. The second is an update to the store, to Catalook 5.5.6. Both changes should be pretty invisible to users.

The current version of the Events Module (4.0.1) uses a method which appears to be no longer supported in DNN5. So to make it work, a new mechanism is required. Fortunately DNN already has an extensible Permissions Grid which is very easy to configure. This is run from IUpgradeable:- 'Lookup DesktopModuleIDobjDesktopModule = objDesktopModules.GetDesktopModuleByModuleName("DNN_Events") If Vers...

As you can see from the screenshots in my previous post, the Events theme from my first post is up on the site. The good news, for me, is that it has been added to version 4.0.1 of the module. The other good news is that the module is back in the release process after the team did a rapid update to the code to correct the security issues identified in the previous release. The new Release Candidat...

Well inspired a little by the new theme, and some support from Ernst Peter, (the Events module team lead), I thought now was a good time for a fresh look to the club web site.     This is how it used to look...   and after the update... ...