Entries for the 'DNN General' Category

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 Essentially it was using an out of date method for doing the SQL calls.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 made a minor change to the RSS Feed module so that it only allows Host users to update the SQL Query. This is for security reasons. It is now at version 1.0.2.

The original version of my RSS Feed module (1.0.0), included Title, Description and Link as mandatory field. It also enabled PubDate, Creator and Category as optional fields. To this I have just added ImageURL (with Height and Width as optional attributes). This simply adds the picture at the bottom of the Description. The module is now version 1.0.1.

Having created a report that generates a What's New type display as detailed in my previous post, I wanted to create an RSS feed with pretty much the same content, because currently I use about 6 different feeds off the site, and it is a pain monitoring them all. I couldn't find a module that would generate an RSS feed based on a specific query, and whilst it is on the reports module roadmap, it's...