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Rodney Joyce User is Offline

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5/17/2005 1:09 PM
Hi Scott Very useful module! Some feedback: 1) A cancel button on the View Options screen - you currently have to click elsewhere if you don't update. Btw -why do you use the old style View Options and not use the Settings key to expose it in the Module Settings screen? 2) Why can you not target Unauthenticated specifically? I want to display a message about joining as a user and to logged on users I want to display subscription info (or thereabouts) 3) I think one of the most critical requirements is an obvious link that fires the Paypal subscribe process on the user page. I am going to be looking at this sometime, but we can discuss it more later - no point in reinventing the Subscription tools I wonder how many users don't know how to expand Subscription Services etc. and don't subscribe because it is not obvious. 4) The ability to group roles with the same content on the top level screen - eg. My Gold, Silver and Plat subscribers all get the same message, but I have to go into each one and enter them manually - it would be nice to check some checkboxes with a Copy function or something? ps. You've done such a great job I have made you an Honorary Subscriber on dumbTV for a year so you can download my Event module should you require it

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5/17/2005 3:31 PM
Thanks Rodney, let me know when you have everything setup and i'll advertise here. 1) A cancel button on the View Options screen - you currently have to click elsewhere if you don't update. Ah nice catch. Btw -why do you use the old style View Options and not use the Settings key to expose it in the Module Settings screen? The Settings Key? Do you have an example? 2) Why can you not target Unauthenticated specifically? I want to display a message about joining as a user and to logged on users I want to display subscription info (or thereabouts) I'll need to check this, you should be able to target unauthenticted users. 3) I think one of the most critical requirements is an obvious link that fires the Paypal subscribe process on the user page. I am going to be looking at this sometime, but we can discuss it more later - no point in reinventing the Subscription tools I wonder how many users don't know how to expand Subscription Services etc. and don't subscribe because it is not obvious. You can actually make a paypal link now through their builder. I plan on having it link to the signup module which will contain the link. 4) The ability to group roles with the same content on the top level screen - eg. My Gold, Silver and Plat subscribers all get the same message, but I have to go into each one and enter them manually - it would be nice to check some checkboxes with a Copy function or something? Yep, I plan on adding multi-roles.

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5/17/2005 4:13 PM
Excellent - I'm almost done - Totally underestimated the amount of work required - been some 3am 'mers! 1) Settings Key - In Module Def. for Settings you use Settings instead of ViewOptions or whatever, and if the settings page inherits from ModuleSettingBase (* off top of head then you can get rid of the action and it will appear at the bottom of the Module Settings list - I see half the core modules still use the old way, but quite a few use the new way. 2) "All other users will receive the generic role message (including unauthenticated users) as specified below." Not sure about this - it would mean that if I just wanted to target UnAuth. users, I would have to put some blurb in Registered Users - but then what Role ranking is their wiht Roles - obviously a Gold Member is also going to be a Registered user, so which text would it display? So therefore perhaps separate role for UnAuth... 3) Cool - will check it out - but then how would the Role update in DNN? Actually - I had a new subscriber (yay and the payment went through but he was not added to the Role? I've seen this a few times but I'll search the DNN forums tomorrow (late again) 4) I really like your graphics Scott- very simple and effective! I did a search for some but will need to look futher - did you have them custom made? Any resource links you could point me at? 5) Sorry - off topic to this forum, but to do with Roles - do you know how the Role aspnet membership stuff works? I had a very interesting problem where my roles were out of synch, and I had to erase all my roles and add them again (I am working on the Smart-Thinker Homepage that adds a Role per user so I am to blame, but nobody seems to know anything about it? If you have a mo - could you check out this post please: http://forums.asp.net/927770/ShowPost.aspx cheers

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5/18/2005 3:59 AM
Ah I know what you mean about settings now. I'll take it into consideration when building any new modules. I'm not sure about your specific role problems, I hope to clear up a lot of paypal confusion in subscription tools. Did you make any role modifications through the database? I have had this cause synch problems before, otherwise I would chalk it up to maybe an upgrade from an earlier version if you starter earlier like 3.0.8

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5/18/2005 5:17 AM
Hmm - I've seen quite a few people on the ASP.NET Forums having problems with the User not being added to the Role on return from PP... I have been playing around with the Roles so they did get out of synch, but even when I erase them out of aspnet_roles the problem still exists - oh well - I'm sure it will get ironed out eventually! If you know of any good graphic resources I'd been keen to hear them?

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