Scott McCulloch
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| 6/27/2005 4:39 PM |
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I recently received this question from a member on this site and it's easier if I post it here.
I am
using the News Article module and the i am facing a problem... I am
having many categories (economy, politics, sports etc) and i also have
a section with the main article of the day.
What i wanted is to be able to move the main article to one of the other categories.
The
problem is that i added many times the News Article module and each of
it has its categories, its articles etc. I mean that i can't move
articles from one News Article module to other.
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this scenario you are best to only have one "instance" of the news
articles module on your site and use the "Add Existing Module" option
to add that same instance to various sections of your site. You can
then filter each of those sections via a category.
I know some people that use the featured option to show article for the homepage and have seperate pages for each category.
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Mike Phanou
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| 6/27/2005 11:18 PM |
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| I will try that Scott, thanks! |
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Mike Phanou
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| 6/28/2005 12:32 PM |
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Posted By smcculloch on 6/27/2005 4:39:21 PM
I recently received this question from a member on this site and it's easier if I post it here.
I am using the News Article module and the i am facing a problem... I am having many categories (economy, politics, sports etc) and i also have a section with the main article of the day.
What i wanted is to be able to move the main article to one of the other categories.
The problem is that i added many times the News Article module and each of it has its categories, its articles etc. I mean that i can't move articles from one News Article module to other.
For this scenario you are best to only have one "instance" of the news articles module on your site and use the "Add Existing Module" option to add that same instance to various sections of your site. You can then filter each of those sections via a category.
I know some people that use the featured option to show article for the homepage and have seperate pages for each category.
Scott i tried that by i found out that i can only add an instance of a news articles module once in every tab. If i could add more than one it would be what i was looking for... |
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Scott McCulloch
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| 6/28/2005 3:34 PM |
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Ah, because using "Add Existing Module" uses UpdateTabModuleSettings which is only unique to Tab/Module. Not sure how to get around that, hmm..
If there seperate modules it would work with launch links on.
You might have to use the Latest Articles module to achieve what you need and just have a central articles module somewhere on your site. |
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Dax Davis
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| 6/29/2005 4:12 AM |
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Scott, I have to admit the "add an existing module" stuff is pretty
confusing for my clients (and me sometimes). It would be cool if
we had the ability to check a setting that says to use articles
sitewide or not. It would acheive the same effect in a little
more stratightforward a way. I would think you would then modify
the queries to not pay attention to the module id.
Dax
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Tom Lucas
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| 7/21/2005 1:31 PM |
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| Definately second that one! |
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Jack Hoelz
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| 7/21/2005 2:07 PM |
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| Because adding an "exisitng module "works so well with NewsArticles what I do is install an instance of the news article module on each clients site, then set the module to premium. If they want another instance of the module someplace the MUST add an existing module. |
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Scott McCulloch
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| 7/21/2005 6:04 PM |
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Posted By jhoelz on 7/21/2005 2:07:13 PM
Because adding an "exisitng module "works so well with NewsArticles what I do is install an instance of the news article module on each clients site, then set the module to premium. If they want another instance of the module someplace the MUST add an existing module.
Nice - I had not thought of using it like that.. |
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Jack Hoelz
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| 7/22/2005 5:17 AM |
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 It's almost too simple really! They control whats displayed in each instance by categories.
I have a site in development right now for some "Seniors" (the "webmaster" is 82) and I am controlling ALL of the dynamic content using the NewsArtilces and LatestNews modules. It's working fantastic. The categories are the pages they want the info displayed on. It's so simple! |
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Tom Lucas
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| 7/22/2005 12:40 PM |
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Jhoelz,
And you have that working on DNN 3.1? I'm getting errors when attempting to add another instance via the "Add existing module" option.
Also when I do, it is acting like a complete other installation of the module since the categories from the parent module never show up....
I'll keep looking. |
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Tom Lucas
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| 7/22/2005 12:51 PM |
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On the copied instance I am getting the following:
Unhandled error loading module.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Unhandled Error Adding Module to ContentPane ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DnnForge.NewsArticles.ucListing.LoadTemplates() at DnnForge.NewsArticles.ucListing.BindListing() at DnnForge.NewsArticles.ucNewsListing.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.UserControl.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Control child) at DnnForge.NewsArticles.NewsArticles.LoadControlType() at DnnForge.NewsArticles.NewsArticles.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.UserControl.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Control child) at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.InjectModule(Control objPane, ModuleInfo objModule, PortalSettings PortalSettings) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Any Ideas? |
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Scott McCulloch
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| 7/23/2005 2:41 AM |
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Posted By lucast on 7/22/2005 12:51:17 PM
On the copied instance I am getting the following:
Unhandled error loading module.
DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Unhandled Error Adding Module to ContentPane ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DnnForge.NewsArticles.ucListing.LoadTemplates() at DnnForge.NewsArticles.ucListing.BindListing() at DnnForge.NewsArticles.ucNewsListing.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.UserControl.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Control child) at DnnForge.NewsArticles.NewsArticles.LoadControlType() at DnnForge.NewsArticles.NewsArticles.Page_Init(Object sender, EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.UserControl.OnInit(EventArgs e) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.InitRecursive(Control namingContainer) at System.Web.UI.Control.AddedControl(Control control, Int32 index) at System.Web.UI.ControlCollection.Add(Control child) at DotNetNuke.UI.Skins.Skin.InjectModule(Control objPane, ModuleInfo objModule, PortalSettings PortalSettings) --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Any Ideas?
Tom, anything peculiar about your installation? This is the first problem I've seen with the Add Existing Module functionality.
Do you just have a few categories defined, a few templates (standard?) and a few articles? |
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Jack Hoelz
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| 7/23/2005 5:14 AM |
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| Can you add any exisiting module? |
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Tom Lucas
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| 7/23/2005 5:22 AM |
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Scott,
Let's chalk it up to a fluke then I guess. It is a new DNN 3.1 installation using your 4.0.7 Articles. I'll drop the installation and try again. Funny, overnight I can now see the article but get same error trying to view the full article. I'll try again.
Jhoelz,
Yes I can add copies of other modules just fine.
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