Kelly - Great job on 2.6. The AJAX is very nice and the autosizing of the editor window makes life a LOT easier.

Can I ask when these items will be put on the development schedule?

- Template and Form generation of objects in a different connection string
- Support for SQL 2008 data types (specifically date and time)
- Template generation from a view
- Search/Template (ability to have form and template on the same object for search/filtering)
- Token for Session ID at the user level (I'm pretty sure this exists inside IIS)
- ability to go back into the Form Builder if you haven't changed a form from it's automatic generation - or just saving the settings so it can be regenerated (I know this would be a lot of work but would save a lot of work too!)


Another minor request - can you put the "configure" options of a module inside the "Control Panel"? I don't get why I have to go in the control panel to work, but then out and back into configure to set that module to the form/template I just built.

Again, great job, keep it up!

Kevin

Hi Kevin,

Thanks for the suggestions. They are on the list for consideration. A few questions for you:

What do you mean by "ability to have form and template on the same object for filtering"?

How do you plan to use the Session ID?

FYI, I have implemented Template generation from a View for the next version.

As for the separate Configure, items in the Control Panel apply to all module instances throughout the site. Items on the Configure page apply only to that specific module instance. More items will be added to the Configure page in coming versions (like Angus' request for module-instance variables).

Best,
Kelly

I'd like to add another request for 2.7 -- is there a way to implement ISearchable so the core dnn search will search xmp content (i.e., non-dnn core tables)?

In the meantime, is there some other way to implement a site search without using the core dnn search?

Thank you!
Joan

Form/Template for Filtering - this is something that has been talked about in the forums a few times but with different terminology. The idea is to have a form that would be able to filter a template result set or even be able to not have the template result set fill until you click search with whatever parameters you choose. Today I'm having to do that with a post-back to the same page and a querystring and a second xmod module on the page to display the results. It would seem that being able to combine a form with a template would do this perfectly.

SessionID - Many times I've had to capture data from a user when they are not logged in and carry that through the session. One example is a shopping cart where they don't login until the end. Another is a multi-step application process for health care tax benefits. In both scenarios you need to start out with some sort of unique identifier so that you insure that you are associating new data to the same session. For the shopping cart I got around it with dummy xmod module that calls an SP for sql to generate a guid, refresh the page with the guid and use that as the id. The application I am trying to figure out how to do with a single xmod control and only a single post but lots of fancy jquery. If there was a UserSessionID that you could access, you would know it would be unique and all of these types of issues disappear. And I'm open to alternatives here - I don't claim to know all there is about coding.

Great on Template generation on a view. Unfortunately for me without being given the ability to use an alternate data source it doesn't help me. Many of my clients separate their business data from DNN which is a great practice but eliminates our ability to use the wizards. I'm actually surprised that there are no others clamoring about this.

Thanks again Kelly!