4: Getting Your Site Started on the Right Foot in .NET

Creator Quick Response Code in .NET 4: Getting Your Site Started on the Right Foot

Here s how to move a module to another page: 1 Select Settings from the module menu This opens the Module Settings page of this module 2 Click the Maximize button beside Page Settings 3 Click the Maximize button beside Advanced Settings 4 Select the page to move the module to from the Move To Page field 5 Click the Update link This module is now located on the selected page It will be positioned at the bottom of the same pane as the previous page If the same pane doesn t exist on the new page, it will instead be added to the bottom of the content pane

DNN provides a central place to upload and manage the images, movies and other types of files that can be viewed and downloaded from your Web site That place is called the File Manager and it is located under the Admin page on the Web site menu Only Administrators can access the File Manager; however, they can enable roles to view the files within one or more folders and upload files to one or more folders

The File Manager is divided into the following six sections, as shown in Figure 4-12: Folders toolbar: This toolbar enables the Administrator to perform administrative tasks on a folder that is selected in the Folders window Files toolbar: This toolbar enables the Administrator to manage the files selected in the Files window Folders window: This area displays a list of folders in a hierarchical tree structure When a folder is selected, any files inside that folder are displayed in the Files window to the right Files window: This area displays the files associated with the selected folder Ten (10) files are displayed by default The filename, date, and size of the files are displayed The default order of these files is alphanumeric by filename; however, they can be reverse ordered or ordered by another field by clicking on a linked heading above the files An Edit and Delete button is displayed beside each file enabling Administrators to edit or delete a single file A check box beside each file enables one or more files to be modified simultaneously, and the Select All button enables all displayed files to be modified The check boxes are used in conjunction with the Files toolbar Below the listed files are details of how many pages of files are contained within the currently selected folder and navigation buttons to move between these pages

File Manager Details bar: The information bar displayed across the bottom of the File Manager window displays the location of selected folders on the left side The middle of the bar tells you how full the File Manager is and the maximum space allocated to this Web site by the host The right side of this bar enables you to set the number of files displayed in the Files window This setting defaults back to ten when you leave the File Manager or upload a file Folder Security Settings: This section displays all the security roles for this Web site and displays the View and Write (upload) permissions allocated for the selected folder These permissions can be updated at any time

Figure 4-12: The Admin File Manager provides a central location to store and manage files, such as documents and images that are used on the Web site

Here s how the Administrator can upload one or more files to the File Manager: 1 Click the Files button located in the Common Tasks section of the Control Panel This goes to the Admin File Manager page where the File Manager is located Folders are listed down the left and the files inside each folder are displayed to the right 2 Click the Upload button located above the list of files This takes you to the File Upload page 3 Click the Browse button and select the file from your computer You can either upload a single file or save time by uploading a ZIP file containing several files 4 Select the folder that you want to upload the file to from the dropdown box below You can only upload one file or one ZIP file to one folder at a time 5 Select the Decompress ZIP Files check box if you are uploading a ZIP file that you want to decompress When uploading a ZIP file, you have two options Selecting this option enables you to decompress the file so that each of the files appears separately in the folder as well as the ZIP file Alternatively, if you do not check this option, the ZIP file uploads as a single file 6 Click the Save File link You are now returned to the File Manager If you receive a warning message that the file is a restricted file type, your Web site doesn t allow you to upload this type of file See 3 to find out how to change this: You need host access to do so