DNN Sharp's My Tokens 30% off (until 7/26/2013)

DNN Sharp are promoting a discount on their popular My Tokens module that will expire on the 26th of July, 2013. To get the discount, you have to buy their Action Form module from the DNN Store.

 

Action Form is a form builder module which lets you create complex forms quickly and save data to the database / send emails etc. on submission.

 

My Tokens is a module which lets you include dynamic content from database or HTTP requests in static content.It works with a number of DNN modules out of the box (including Text/HTML and Form and List) but you can even patch the DNN core (with instructions) to extend support to every installed module.

 

 

Buy Action Form here

Buy My Tokens here

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25% off all Data Springs products (until 7/23/2013)

Data Springs is taking 25% off all its products until Tuesday, 7/23/2013. You can order your products from the DNN Store and use the promo code BYEANNIE on checkout to get a 25% discount.

 

If you don't know Data Springs' modules, you should give it a look - their flagship products are Dynamic Forms, Dynamic Registration and Dynamic Login, and there are more than a dozen more. There is also a bundle named Data Springs Collection for a very low price compared to bying the products one by one.

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At last! DNN7.1 has extensionless URLs and a "url name" setting for every page

This is a big step forward. Starting with DNN v.7.1, you can say goodbye to ugly URLs and .aspx extensions. Following a suggestion made by yours truly (here: http://www.dnnsoftware.com/voice/cid/138237), DNN 7.1 has adopted a "Page URL" field in Page Settings, letting you specify the exact URL the page should use.

 

 

This is essentially an URL rewrite for the page, that makes the page's URL independent of the page's name, meaning that you can change the name as many times as you like, without affecting any links that are present in text/html modules or elsewhere.

 

The only bad thing (or good, depending on your point of view) is that the URL is not automatically synthesized based on page hierarhcy, meaning that you have to specify the exact URL for each page, starting from the virtual root.

 

For example, in the default DNN installation you have the About Us page which has a URL of "/About-Us" while the sub-page Style Guide has a URL of "/About-Us/StyleGuide". The whole URL for the Style Guide page has to be typed again, i.e. the "/About-Us" part is not inherited from the URL field of the parent page.

 

This makes things a bit more difficult since you have to remember the URLs of parent pages if you want to represent the hierarchy using friendly URLs, but on the other hand gives you a bit of freedom since you do not need to specify exact paths to get to a page - you can easily give the Style Guide page, for example, a URL of "/YourStyleGuide", forgetting the "About-Us" part at all.

 

It would be nice to see an "inherit" option in future versions though.

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