Today I released my first DNN 5 module (more about that here). It’s taken me on and off about a week to get the module properly packaged. Partly because of lack of documentation about the new extension manifest. So here are the things i found out during the packaging process… hope someone else is helped by this info as well.

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When you need to upgrade multiple DotNetNuke websites it is sometimes hard to figure out what version a specific site is. Of course, you could logon to all your sites, but that takes quite some time. If you have installed the databases of your sites in one sql server instance, there is another option available. You could open all databases, open the Version table, and check the highest version number in that table. This is still a lot of work though… however, it is something that can be automated with a little effort.

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DNN 5 now has the option to give non admins access to admin modules. You can just put any admin module on a new page and give users access to that. An even easier thing to do is to just give non admins permissions to use a specific admin page.

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Yesterday I spent the better part of the day deleting portals from a larger DNN installation, for the purpose of creating a smaller copy of the same installation with a subset of portals. This post is meant to be a note to self to look into multi portal deletion sometime, and to remind me of a script that needs to run to clear out data for a few specific modules...

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