I am looking to add some Tabs to a module.  I was thinking I would just use some Javascript or find a nice control that does the Javascript for me and be done with it.  I have been using Twitter a lot lately and decided to Tweet out to my followers to see if they had any particular implementation they liked to use. 

I heard back from a number of them and it was suggested I use JQuery.  I have been hearing about JQuery alot lately so I decided to pursue it.  But, where to begin.  Joe Brinkman of The Accidental Geek and co-founder of Dotnetnuke said he had some examples and would send them over.

Well Joe went above and beyond and provided me with a great blog post that serves as a great beginners guide to implementing JQuery within the Dotnetnuke architecture.  I highly encourage you to check it out over at his blog:�How To Create JQuery Tabs in Dotnetnuke By Joe Brinkman

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The Visibility Setting unique to each module and found in the Module Settings page specifys whether or not to display the +, - or nothing that allows for the module to be collapsed. 

I generally don't like having this turned on and try to use the default settings to specify that it should always be set to "None".  However, from time to time things get out of control and I end up with a site that has the settings sometimes set to "None" and other times set to "Maximized".  

In order to get everything back in sync I have had limited success in using the "Apply to All Modules" options.  It seems to work for a page, but not for the entire site.  

Therefore I went looking for a solution that would be quick and easy to get all of my modules setup the way I want them.

In order to do this you must be logged in as a user account with HOST level access.

In the menu navigate to Host and then click on the SQL page. In the SQL Box paste the following code UPDATE TabModules...

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Recently while trying to install the Novell Authentication Provider  on a DNN 4.90 installation I was unable to do so because of a Javascript error.  A collegue discoverd that if you disable Ajax support in the Host Settings then you could install the authentication provider.   I believe this holds true for all authentication providers.  I am not sure if the problem was corrected in 4.91 or not.

A visitor asked how I get the Dotnetnuke Blog module to show most of my posts rather than just show the short summary of the post.

The answer is really simply.  Don't put anything into the summary box when creating a new blog post.

There are some drawbacks to this as sometimes HTML tags get randomly cut off and make formatting weird, but all in all it works out really nicely.

Recently I needed move a database backup of SQL Server 2008 from my development machine to a SQL Server 2005 instance on a client’s web server.  I did what I normally would do and backed up the SQL Server 2008 database and tried to restore it to SQL Server 2005.  Of course this didn’t work. 

I did what I always do when I run into a problem I did a quick Google and found a bunch of posts saying, “Not possible”.  I sat down to figure out what to do.  I decided that I would use the  SQL Server 2008 Express Export feature to see if I could export my 2008 database to a 2005 SQL Server Express database.

To do this;

Install SQL Server 2005 Express.  Created a new database in SQL Server 2005. Went to my SQL 2008 Instance, right click on the database, Tasks,  Export Data I went through the Export Wizard and selected my SQL Server 2005 database instance. This exported all of my database tables and the information within the tables. I then went to my SQL 2008 instance and...

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I was working on a different computer this morning and I needed to download the source version of Dotnetnuke 4.9.0.  I did what I usually do and headed over to http://www.dotnetnuke.com and clicked on Downloads.  I clicked on version 4.9.1 and was taken to the new Dotnetnuke repository of files over at Code Plex.

That sent me on a search for the old Dotnetnuke files that I am use to.  Pretty quickly I found them over at SourceForget.net at http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=77052.

With a new year, comes new changes and this is one of them.

I have been really busy getting all lose ends tied up this week in preparation for the Christmas break.  I have a moment while I wait for a module to compile and thought I would post a Holiday message on here while I had the chance.

Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays!

I hope your celebration is full of love and laughter and energizes you for the coming year. 

I look forward to working with you in the New Year and I raise my glass in a toast to all my fellow Dotnetnuke lovers, users and gurus out there that make my job so much fun!

We have decided to make available the source code for the Dotnetnuke Novell Authentication Provider.   The best part is that this code will be free for the taking.   Ous only request is that if you modiffy the code please let us know what you did at Novell@HilbertSolutions.com.

The free Dotnentuke Novell Authentication Provider Source is available as a download from this site.

Every now and then I see in the Dotnetnuke Forums that people are no longer able to login to their Dotnetnuke websites.   This usually occurs after they upgrade their website or because they have moved the location of the login page. I thought I would put down a quick list of some issues and solutions to them.

If you are unable to login to your site after performing an upgrade the chances are very good that you didn't copy the MachineKey from your old Web.config to the new one.   Dotnetnuke uses the machine key to encrypt passwords so if you have the wrong MachineKey in your Web.config then you won't be able to login because your password will always be wrong.

The second thing that happens often is that people change the location of the Login page through the Admin Settings.   By mistake they change the page to a page that either 1.) doesn't have a login module on it.  Or 2.) The page can't be accessed by unauthenticated users.

If for some reason you can still access the admin menu then you...

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Installed the new DNN Blog Module late last week after noticing on DNN that while posting a comment on someone's blog that I could use a Gravatar.  

I really dig on the Gravtar feature and the fact that the URLs are somewhat readable these days.

Anyway, Good Job.