We have added a preview of an option for third-party integration.  I have to stand firm on the fact that this is unsupported for the time being.  We are not ready to start tracking down issues that may or may not be related to a third-party.  If you questions, comments or feedback, please post in the Custom Views/Templates forum. 

PLEASE, if you do have a support question about anything for Active Social, we absolutely need to know if you are using this capability.  Our focus needs to remain on the roadmap and issues directly related to Active Social.  For example, if you run into an issue with the ProfileView and are using this control on a tab the first thing we will ask is for you to remove it.

The following code will allow you to load a DNN module from a specific page into a custom view or any other Active Social Template. You must have know the ModuleId and TabId to load the module properly. The syntax is as follows:

<active:moduleloader id="ctlMod" TID="TABID" MID="MODULEID" runat="server" />

Thanks Will, this is a much anticipated functionality that will open up lots of possibilities.

Thank Will...

Very nice... and just key off of asuid in the URL I assume...

I'll also assume an easy way to do this is create a hidden page, put the module on it, then use the code above to insert into AS.

If I'm stating the obvious, I apologize.... just hopefully stating Will's correct intentions for using this.

man this works like a charm!!! -- we'll be going the control route here at the zone but this is really sweet and so easy - uvg with asuid - WOW

thanks for the new release Will & team and the hard work.

Just out of curiosity, what modules are people using with this?

Excellent!

personally (not zone) I will be using UVG and any module that I have that supports userid maybe ventrian and banner ads.

UVG, UMG, News Articles (for starters).

I would like to add the forum viewer / whats new module so that I can filter on user blog postings

I love Marc's ideas. Great stuff Will.

I think I might have just teared up a bit! I also plan on primarily using controls but this is huge in terms of flexibility.

Chris

UVG, Property Agent and News Articles along with some custom modules

<div class='afquote'>I think I might have just teared up a bit! I also plan on primarily using controls but this is huge in terms of flexibility.

Chris</div>
Custom control are handled the same exact way. Here is how I have the the License tab setup on this site.

[AM:CONTROLS:TAB:Licenses:PRIVATE]

<%@ Register TagPrefix="amweb" Namespace="Active.Modules.Web.Controls" Assembly="Active.Modules.Web.Controls" %> <amweb:userlicenses id="ctlLicenses" runat="server" UserId="&#91;DNN:PROFILE:USERID&#93;">

Product	Invoice	Purchase Date
[PRODUCTNAME]	[INVOICENUMBER]	[DATECREATED]
[LICENSEKEY]		Activated: [ISACTIVATED]
No licenses found

[/AM:CONTROLS:TAB:Licenses:PRIVATE]

awesome, thanks Will! Was hoping to see an example like this but didn't want to bug as I figured you'd put it out when you thought appropriate.

Now I am ready to start moving to prod!

Will, Thank you for this feature. I think it will give even more popularity to ActiveSocial.

anyone please share your UMG, UVG, NewsArticles integration code or other interation ideas

thanks

Can some of you guys post a sample of how you are integrating? i.e. property agent, News articles, etc.

If I could just see a sample, I can work my way thriugh it. Thanks in advance and Will....great job !

 

blogs!

Does anyone know of a simple module I could use to let AS members have a tab called 'My Media' that would just allow them to embed vids and mp3s into this area? Just description and embed code and perhaps the ability to categorize and set order.

thanks,

Will

Posted By Will Sugg on 01 Jun 2009 08:23 AM
Does anyone know of a simple module I could use to let AS members have a tab called 'My Media' that would just allow them to embed vids and mp3s into this area? Just description and embed code and perhaps the ability to categorize and set order.

thanks,

Will

Will, that could be done using XMod.
A form with the following fields:

Title - input box
Description - input box
Type (video,mp3) - checkbox
embed code - multiline input
Category - multiselect ddl
Tags - input box
Sort Order (numeric value)

The users userid would be stored with each record allowing them to be filtered by user.

Thanks FG,

Has anyone done that one yet? Have you seen it posted on xmod template forums? I looked through them when I posted this but did not see anything.

We plan to use xmodpro extensively in our site.

thanks,

Willie

Posted By Will Sugg on 10 Jun 2009 06:10 AM
Thanks FG,

Has anyone done that one yet? Have you seen it posted on xmod template forums? I looked through them when I posted this but did not see anything.

We plan to use xmodpro extensively in our site.

thanks,

Willie

I haven't seen any templates in the forums but I have been working on a site which has listings with embeded code.

I could put together a basic example for you.

Thanks FG,

That would be great. I check the xmod forums and ny partner at Planet Maine is working now with xmodpro on some solutions for our AS project. Perhaps we can get a group going on activesocial.com or start a thread in your asi group on it.

Will

awesome option! Thanks!!!

Intergrated UVG: http://www.mopower.nl/Members/Membe...fault.aspx

I could use some help here ... even with some code help.

I have a small finle manager module that I want to integrate into the GroupView. How, exactly should I start? I saw the code posted by Will, but ...how do I create a new "tab" for the Group View and cause it to load the module? I'd like to do this similar to the way that the discussions are loaded.

oure would appreciate some help here.

Joe,
There is a video on the forum along with some good examples.  Here is the basic idea from the groupview template where I integrated the banner module and ventrian's latest properties

Thanks. Any pointers to finding the video. I'm not finding it.

This was helpful. I think that I was doing this correctly, but ...

If I try to load a Text/HTML module, it works just fine.

I tried loading the DotNetNuke Events module. When I do that I get an error:

7/26/2009 11:45:59 AM Module Load Exception jncraig ModuleId: 658; ModuleDefId: 103; FriendlyName ...
ModuleId: 658
ModuleDefId: 103
FriendlyName: Events
ModuleControlSource: DesktopModules/Events/Events.ascx
AssemblyVersion: 04.09.04
PortalID: 1
PortalName: xxxx
UserID: 17
UserName: jncraig
ActiveTabID: 121
ActiveTabName: GroupsView
RawURL: /AdminPages/ActiveSocial/GroupsView/tabid/121/asg/4/showtab/events/Default.aspx
AbsoluteURL: /Default.aspx
AbsoluteURLReferrer: http://xxxx.org/AdminPages/ActiveSo...fault.aspx
UserAgent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1.1) Gecko/20090715 Firefox/3.5.1 GTB5 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
DefaultDataProvider: DotNetNuke.Data.SqlDataProvider, DotNetNuke.SqlDataProvider
ExceptionGUID: 0ebd65f8-fe1c-401e-ba59-b30df4c177d8
InnerException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.
FileName:
FileLineNumber: 0
FileColumnNumber: 0
Method: DotNetNuke.Modules.Events.Events.LoadModuleControl
StackTrace:
Message: DotNetNuke.Services.Exceptions.ModuleLoadException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. ---> System.NullReferenceException: Object reference not set to an instance of an object. at DotNetNuke.Modules.Events.Events.LoadModuleControl() --- End of inner exception stack trace ---
Source:
Server Name: WEB4005


So ... I must be doing something wrong. Or, the Events modules isn't integratable.

When I try the File Manager module, I actually get three separate errors logged in the Event Log.


Any ideas?

Will M -

At what point will AM support 3rd party module integration with AS? I'm scoping out some work for my site which will include a lot of user-based queries on my own schema tables. I don't want to buy and install XMod if I can help it, I might just write my own or use OWS, which is already installed on my site.

Will AM provide a list of 3rd party modules that you deem acceptable to support with AS at some point?

thanks,

Steve

Steve,
I don't want to answer for Will...but basically, anything that supports a querystring value for userid should work. AS uses the module loader to "load" thrid part modules into the profile. It passes the asuid name value pair. As long as you build your modules to look for that qs value you should be fine.

Also, another user on here Will Sugg has used XMOD to do some cool integrations with AS. You might send him a PM.