Overview A little over 18 months ago we had the first meeting for the DotNetNuke User Group in the Cleveland Ohio area.  Unfortunately, that was our only meeting.  It was always my intention to help get the Cleveland area DotNetNuke User Group off the ground but as the months dragged on other events just always seemed to take precedence.  Since that first meeting I have had the opportunity to speak at several different .Net and DotNetNuke User Groups.  The more I saw the success of the Capital DotNetNuke User Group (CDUG), the Los Angeles DotNetNuke User Group,...

Over the past 6 years I have watched as DotNetNuke matured into a well-rounded platform that is capable of meeting the needs of a wide variety of individuals and organizations.  One of the keys to the platform’s success is that it continues to leverage technology to make it easy to build sites the way you want. 

A user recently asked me how they could re-use the content from one page on another page in their site.  A couple of years ago I would have suggested that they make a “copy” of the module using the built-in capabilities.  This works well when you are trying to duplicate the entire content of the module, however, there are times when you just want a portion of the content.  In the past the answer would have been to split up the content on the original page – which might require changing your skin and may not be possible when using 3rd party modules.

The optimal solution would not require me to make any changes to the original page, but would instead allow me just to grab specific content and display it on a new page.  Thanks goodness we added jQuery support in 4.9 and 5.0.  This problem is really easy to solve with some simple html and a jQuery one-liner.

Over the last 5 years, DotNetNuke has been blessed a large number of books being written about the platform.  I was fortunate to be part of the team that co-authored a couple of the first books on the platform, and I continue to try reading every book that comes out on the platform.  Some books, like Professional DotNetNuke 5: Open Source Web Application Framework for ASP.NET cover multiple aspects of the DotNetNuke platform and is a great book for Administrators, Developers and Designers, but it necessarily can’t cover every topic in depth.  Other books, like DotNetNuke Module Programming, are narrowly targeted at Module developers.