IBuySpy's FlexHeaders Module
You can now rename your
headers and control whether you want a column to be shown or hidden from view.
This feature provides additional flexibility in the use of the Contacts and
Document Modules. You can rename the header titles of this module to match the
business or personal description that the title is intended to describe
Each use of a module on a page can have its own custom title attached and you
can choose the column in which you want it to be displayed. This customizing of
columns to be displayed means that you can use the contact and document modules
in the left and/or right panes of the portal layout, you are not resricted to
the center pane only.
We have also added a Mailto: link to the Contacts Email column and
the Documents Created by column.
And we also have made both modules navigate - on prev and next buttons..for
every 5 Contact and Documents listed (5 is the default).
We also allow for each instance of use for the contact and
document module. You can now enter small or larger
values to page on: like 3, 5,10,20 etc or 100 whatever fits.
This is good when a page is dedicated to list a phone
directory or page is dedicted to listing
documents or Books.. and it is good for the multi module pages
also...That would require smaller paging sizes.
Using the Portal's Module Layout Manager, you will be able to rename the headers
to be more consistent with the description and purpose of your site. By
entering titles in an Alias DB table you can personalize the document titles
for departments, products, catalogs and other document types. As an example,
the Contacts Module can also be renamed to match the type of phone book that is
being listed by the portal, like a department phone book, or sales or product
support contacts page or even a email directory. The Document can also be
customized to show a Book or CD list mounted in a pane of your choice as in the
right pane of the page layout example.
Feature List
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Rename Column Titles
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Build the Contacts and Document Header to be more descriptive of what they
represent
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Choose and Hide Columns
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Set up page navaigation for each module instance.
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Make Directory for CDs, Books, One or Two Column Headers.
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Direct Mailto: Links
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Make use of the left and right pane for custom Contacts and Documents Listing:
Like Two Column Phone Contacts Or Email List
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Globalize the Titles in Your Native language See the demo on how PeopleSoft is
planning to use FlexHeaders
* Another major advantage of this modification kit is the ability to globalize
the headers in your language and even make use of multi-languages with-in a
single Portal.
A users Comments:
Your FlexHeaders module
is more than an improvement to the document and contact modules. It
is a complete overhaul!
Being able to change the
headers is the best possible thing that could have happened, and then there are
all the other enhancements, like adding a mailto: to the e-mail field. The
improvements didn't stop there that is for sure! I like the way you gave
the ability to decide the number of columns you can make visible for both
the documents and contacts module because when I want to use this module on the
left or right hand sides of any of my Portal pages I can limit the
columns to two or three which fit much better, this takes care of that
scrunched up look; or if I want to use all of the columns available and
place them in the middle column of one of my Portal pages that works
too! To top it all off you've added a paging function so that if I
have more than five contacts or documents listed you can just use the next
button to view them rather than letting the list go on and on. This
improvement is wonderful because I try very hard not to make my viewers have to
use the scroll bar to view a page. I hate the scroll bars and when
ever I can minimize the use of them on my page, I will. These
improvements make the documents and contacts module more user friendly and
definitely more practical for real life web development.
Thank you for a wonderful
new module for my Portal!
Kind regards,
Janet Fox
Okay there is a honest
write up! Good job!
All code is provided unlicensed for your perusal and modification.
This Module is available at the followings stores:
1). Start over and create a new Portal
with a new Database
2). Install the stored procedures
3). Observe AliasFieldNames Table page size for both
Contacts ModuleID(9) and Documents ModuleID(10) should be set to 5.
4). Copy and Paste Modulesetting files (3) into
admin folder
5). Rebuild The Solution -- You should not get any
errors in the output window
6). Copy and paste the Contacts.vb into the Component
folder.
7). Rebuild The Solution -- You should not get any
errors in the output window
8). Copy and paste the Documet.vb into the Component
folder.
9). Rebuild The Solution -- You should not get any
errors in the output window
10). Copy and paste the Contacts.ascx files (3) into
the DesktopModule folder
11). Rebuild The Solution -- You should not get any
errors in the output window
12). Build and Browse and run and observer that the
Contacts Module is working ok - do not modify yet
13). Enter admin and observe that the Layout manager
is working ok - Enter edit mode but do not modify yet.
14). Copy and paste the Document.ascx files (3) into
the DesktopModule folder
15). Rebuild The Solution -- You should not get any
errors in the output window
16) Copy and paste the EditContacts.aspx(1)
file and the Editdocs.aspx files(3) into the DesktopModule folder
17). Rebuild The Solution -- You should not get
any errors in the output window
18). Build and Browse and run and observer that
the Documents Module is working ok - do not modify yet
19). Enter admin and observe that the Layout manager
is working ok - - Enter edit mode but do not modify yet.
It should now work ..
Please Note:
Bug Reporting and Status:
As of 08/27/02...2:32 am
..the latest download is a working version with no errors.. It has been tested
by another user besides me and it looks like we cleaned everything up.
The following has now been resolved. The editcontacts files are now
using codebehind coding method.
I found a problem on implementation, visual studio on a site that we
tested this on tried to make the EditContact.aspx file (which is coded as
an inline page) into a code behind class file... To fix this we removed the
Codebehind and Inherit statements from the .aspx page.. Visual
studio added this to the .aspx page when it was paste in
- it is not in the original code. It is possible you will not see
this error..because it does not happen on my developement system or my host
site.
Dennis H. West
West Design
ASP.NET Developer
