Next week we will be releasing two additional package options for Active Forums.  The current state of the economy is taking it's toll on everyone.  We hope that some people will find our new package options and licensing changes (read more)

The new Active Profile template engine not only makes it easier for you to create a custom layout, but it also makes it much easier for you to add new functionality.  I am working on a set of templates for ActiveModules.com this weekend.  M (read more)

The most popular question lately has been, “What’s up with Active Profile?” If you visit our website on a fairly regular basis you probably know by now that when we are quiet it means a product release or big announcement is imminent. Some people act (read more)

We have just released Active Forums 4.0.3 which includes a new customer submitted feature.  The Attachment Manager will provide your users with a much improved experience for composing posts which include images or attachments.  Users can e (read more)

This is a follow up to my original article, "Are you sure you want to buy that module?"  There have been quite a few new modules released on Snowcovered and the DotNetNuke Marketplace recently.  A lot of these modules are also comi (read more)

As I'm sure most of you are aware, DotNetNuke 4.9 was released this week.  Upgrading was easy and we have confirmed that all of our modules work perfectly fine.  One very nice surprise in DotNetNuke 4.9 was the new default skin.  I (read more)

Since Active Forums 4.0 is such a large release, we decided to handle this release slightly different.  On Friday, Sept. 5th, we released Active Forums 4.0 to our Enterprise license customers.  Since then I have helped several customer (read more)

Active Forums 4.0 is now available to Enterprise edition customers.  Please be sure to read all documentation and migration information before installation. Any questions, comments or problems should be posted in the Active Forums Enterprise for (read more)

Many customers have requested a feature that would allow for a forum user to easily manage their forum subscriptions.  We also have a few other tracking features in mind that we would like to add eventually.  With that in mind we wanted to (read more)

We are working on our first feature release for Active Profile since we took it over.  Active Profile 1.5 will address several key functionality areas and add a few new capabilities. The change/enhancement list is below. Replace depe (read more)

A little over 2 years ago we released an add-on module for Active Forums called the Mail Connector.  This module would allow you to create topics and replies to a forum via email.  In the proper setup, this module would allow you use A (read more)

I just did a test run for one of our migration test customers.  Brad Molzen of VinoCellar.com was our first volunteer and provided me with access to his beta site and database.  His site has just over 400,000 posts.  The entire migration process took (read more)

I apologize to anyone that feels we just spammed them from the Active Update blog.  This was actually an accident.  Last weekend I was troubleshooting the UI portion of selecting roles and added a few customer roles to the Active Update blog.  Howeve (read more)

It looks like we will have a preview version of Active Forums 3.8 available late tomorrow or Wednesday.  This will not be an upgrade version.  We will not release the preview to customers that do not have a test environment.  (read more)

We have added a points system to the next version of Active Forums.  As you can see below, this is optional.  If you do not enable the points system, then all users will still receive a normal post count as they do now.  When you do ha (read more)

I have always tried to stay informed about new modules that enter the market.  I do this for a couple reasons.  Primarily, I just like to see what kind of new and unique modules are entering the market.  My other reason would of course (read more)

Here are a few screen captures from the new control panel that is in Active Forums 3.8.  The first screen capture shows you the dashboard view.  The dashboard is what you will see first when accessing the control panel.  The secon (read more)

Active Forums 3.8 introduces several new security options.  The new security grid only displays roles and/or users for which you have assigned security options.  This is a big improvement for those sites that have a large number of roles.  This will (read more)

Over the past year we have been developing our own set of AJAX controls.  Many of these controls can be seen in Active Purchase and Active CRM.  We started adding AJAX functionality to Active Forums with the 3.7 release.  The post preview and search (read more)

Below is the list of features to be included in the next release of Active Forums.  I will be posting more details about each of these features as we move closer to the June 10th release date. AJAX Based Control Panel Template for Post Form (read more)

Active Modules, Inc. is currently seeking an ASP.NET Web Developer in Charleston, SC.  You will be working on new and existing projects utilizing Microsoft technologies and development tools. Do you have a strong web development background?Are you lo (read more)

DNN Creative has reviewed all the top e-commerce modules for DotNetNuke in their latest issue.  I think the review for Active Purchase is very good overall.  We have a few things to fix regarding XHTML compliance, but other than that Active Purchase (read more)

Please pardon some of the outstanding site issues while we continue to finish upgrading.  We have also cleaned up our website database as part of this upgrade.  We removed all NON customers and former customers without a (read more)

So far this year we have released Active Purchase, Active CRM and almost ready to release Active Cases.  Active Forums is going to be the next major release.  This release is going to introduce some new features, performance improvements&nb (read more)

Today we provided a select few of our customers and potential customers with a preview copy of Active Cases 3.0.  We had great success with the release process we used for Active Purchase and we wanted use the same process for Active Cases.  (read more)

We refer to the main screen where you view, filter and search for cases as the Active Cases Console.  The screen shot below was taken from the previous version of Active Cases.  Immediately after the Active Cases 2.0 image is the (read more)

A few screens have changed since John posted his last blog.  Current Active Cases customers probably noticed a significant change to the overall look and feel of the application when they saw John's original post.  With Active Cases 3.0, we (read more)

Active Cases 3.0 is long overdue, but we are quickly approaching the release date.  I will post some updated screen shots over the next couple of days.  I especially want to start posting more about the new Case Configuration feature.  (read more)

A few customers have already noticed that we posted Active CRM 1.3 to the downloads section on Monday.  The official release will be tomorrow.  A new release of the Active CRM modules for DotNetNuke will also be available.  In my p (read more)

Yes, I said FORM not FORUMS.   We have developed a form generation tool and not quite sure what to do with it just yet.  A few customers may recall a product that we offered over two years ago called Active Form Lite.  This was a (read more)