Searching Across Multiple Sites

Cross site searching in DNN is possible but it's less than easy. By their own admission, there are issues with the DotNetNuke search algorithm which could make our searching problematic.
It should be possible to implement something across all sites and not just one. But the effectiveness of the searching will need to be looked at.

Further investigation required.

Thumbnail Images

The 'About Us' section of the PBA site has a Management Policies page which lists a bunch of PDF documents. The built in control of DNN does not support having thumbnail images for the link of documents.

http://www.nestwood.com/Default.aspx?tabid=63
LinkImage Module

These guys have written what seems like a good control. It fulfils the requirements for the policies page.
The only trouble I have encountered so far is that it doesn't auto-wrap if you add too many items.
Henry has an idea he should be able to fix this with css wrapping.

The Best Find Ever

While I was working on the styling for the PBA menu system yesterday, I came across a bit of a conundrum. I needed to look at the HTML that was being created for the menu so I could determine which styles I need to modify. However, in DotNetNuke the menus are created dynamically using javascript; the browser doesn't actually know what HTML makes up the menu until after the page has been rendered, the standard view source option is utterly useless.

Nevermind, Firefox to the rescue!!!

Thank heavens Firefox is open source! When a developer comes accross a problem, rather than just accepting that they can't do something and moving on down another avenue, they can write something that will do what they want and then publish it on the web so that others with similar problems can benefit, thus making the original product better.

This is exactly what Jennifer Madden had done. She, it seems, has run into a very similar problem and written a lovely little extension to Firefox which saved me hours of trawling through javascript. Thank you to Jennifer who's extension View Source Chart saved me hours and several Asprin, finally getting to see the source which was being generated and displayed in the browser.