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11 Jan 2011 01:21 PM
    So I am at a loss and really need to be pointed in the right direction.

    I added the template for the Knowledge Base custom view and it inspired me to create a new section for my user base.
    My user base create "lists" for a variety of games.  

    Essentially what i want to be able to do is edit the layout of am:ForumContentNavigator or ignore it entirely and create my own.  To do so I would need to understand the template process a bit better so any help would be appreciated.

    The idea is to group topics in a particular forum by Category.
    This Category  header would be bound to the jQuery "accordion" function and expand and collapse the topics underneath it.
    On the end user side, they would see a list of categories with the number of "lists"(topics) in it, be able to click that Category and expand to see all of the "lists"(topics) in the category.

    Where I would like to get even trickier is... I would like to be able to sort this list of "lists"(topics) by PostRating.  The sorting would be done by highest average where Count() of votes is higher.

    I'm able to write this type of code outside of DNN and AF, but really don't know where to start to be able to integrate these types of sprocs and customizations.

    Any help would be appreciated as well as any middle tier solutions, like implementing the jQuery "accordion" but not the sorting...

    Thanks in advance!
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    12 Jan 2011 10:24 AM
    So... custom script it is.
    Guess this functionality doesn't exist in AF
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    12 Jan 2011 03:41 PM
    Do you have any experience writing SQL procs and ASP.NET? If so you can do a lot by making custom web user controls to use in AS/AF (in some places) or even just embedding them with a module like Open-SmartModule.

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    14 Jan 2011 11:20 PM
    Posted By NFXBeats on 12 Jan 2011 04:41 PM
    Do you have any experience writing SQL procs and ASP.NET? If so you can do a lot by making custom web user controls to use in AS/AF (in some places) or even just embedding them with a module like Open-SmartModule.


    I do... I'm a mid/senior level .Net VB developer.
    I'm not 100% comfortable with how to integrate the controls I create and the backend with DNN.
    Still working up to that.

    I had hoped to simply work with the software before I made my own custom controls.
    I will probably end up needing to do that though.

    http://www.ironfistleague.com/forum...40k-Lists/

    You can see my implementation of jQuery, but I still have to implement the sort by Rating and display of Rating.

    Counting the number of votes is simple from a stored proc side,  I'm just a little... off on the logic behind how I integrate those procs with my SQL Data provider, etc. 
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    18 Jan 2011 11:13 AM
    Whe I make my custom controls I usually use direct data access via the .NET libraries. I have used the generic ones and linq. The connection name is "SiteSqlServer" for DNN.
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