re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

Thanks. That works for me. It seems like you guys are fixing the rigth things in the right way. Could you work a little on the country's financial woes?

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

Looks good to me. How easy will upgrade to 5.0 be?

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

Personally, I like this, but what happens if a bunch of panes are below the fold? Is there a way to turn this feature off and keep the old functionality? I worry about training new users on a site where there may be, say, three different skins, with different pane structures below the fold that they'll have to keep track of.

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

This is a great functionality, and a nice use of jQuery.

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

Hey Joe, In flow layouts where divs are used for layout instead of tables, we always add a second style to panes called NoPaneBorder, then change the layout of the pane titles to make them appear as a header to give users the same WYSIWYG experience of being able to see where the panes are. Here are the rules we define in our skin.css: .NoPaneBorder{border:0px !important;} .NoPaneBorder span.SubHead center{background-color:#efefef;border: 2px solid #e9e9e9;color:#000000;margin:1px;padding:2px;} I'm going to cover how we deal with this in depth in the skinning chapter of the new DotNetNuke 5 book from Wrox that I'm working on now. I'm also going to post a blog on this in the next couple of weeks. Thanks for the video - that's a nice touch! Best, Ryan Morgan www.ArrowNuke.com

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

You said the feature isn't necessary in Layout mode but I disagree. If anything, it makes the most sense there because then the user can see all of their panes and content at a glance, including a highlight of the currently selected pane. It doesn't make much sense to hide the contextual information from the user, leaving them to guess where the pane they want is, and what content is possibly surrounding it. Great idea, excellent implementation of jQuery, but the usability of this feature is off the mark by a bit.

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

@Joe - I originally had it in layout mode, but removed it because it seemed redundant. When in layout mode, every pane is already displayed with a title. I will go ahead and add it back in because as you said the extra contextual hint is still useful and doesn't hurt anything.

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

It's nice to see that the borders will go away in edit mode. Those were so annoying. They would break the layout all the time, causing divs to shift down. @jbrinkman I really appreciate that, I think it'll prove itself to be useful and pleasant.

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

Looks like a great feature, I'm also curious of how it will behave when the panes are below the fold. But overall looks like a good feature that will certainly help... those dang borders always mess up designs and layouts. Looking forward to 5.0!

re: DotNetNuke 5.0 Pane Previews

This feature is very nice, but it's better to have an option to turn of this feature because for an administrator it would be very easy to see and manipulate with modules in panes if he sees pane borders. But what I would prefer is thin borders for panes but bold borders (as they are in video presentation) when administrator select a pane in control panel.