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Venexus Modules 4.0 and Beyond  By Jeff Smith
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 5:36 PM :: 575 Views :: 0 Comments :: Article Rating :: DotNetNuke, Search Engine Optimization, Modules Send A Message

We officially have released the 4.0 version for all of our DNN modules in our subscription. This is a major release for several reasons.

  1. EntitySpaces - We are now using the latest release from EntitySpaces (2008.1.927.0) .
  2. BusinessObjects - Since we updated ES, we had to update our BusinessObjects.
  3. WebControls - Webcontrols handles assemblies for ES and BO. All modules use WebControls for bookmarks, comments, ratings, and voting.
  4. Templates - As we perfect our own DNN social network, we frequently make changes to the templates to support new features and fucntionality.
  5. DNN 4.7 - 4.9 - Our 4.x releases will support DNN 4.7 - 4.9. When DotNetNule 5.0 is released, we will be releasing all of our modules as a 5.0 release in support for the new DNN manifest files changes and DNN 5.0 specific methods. At some point, we will no longer support pre-DNN 5.0 sites, but date is not determined at this time.

There are also significant changes in the Groups and ProfileSearch module.

For the Groups we added:

  • WebControls to allow bookmarks, comments, ratings, and voting.
  • Image handling for Group image (Group photo album will be in the next release just like you have in ProfileSearch)
  • Latest X Groups to show newly created/updated groups.

For the ProfileSearch we added:

  • Karma points for display
  • DisplayName in window title for SEO.
  • Email notifications when adding friends.
  • FirstName and LastName search
  • Setting for how many photo albums to display in a row.

Notes:

  1. You must install WebControsl first.
  2. You will need to "Reload Template" in the module settings for all modules.
  3. AskAnExpert will be discontinued. We picked up a new project to build the functionality into SearchDirectory and IndexItem to handle all functionality that AskAnExpert provided.

 

 

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