What's New in Version 4 of XMod Pro?

• Build Dynamic Registration Forms:

  Don't be limited by the default registration process. Build stylish, accessible, custom registration forms for your DotNetNuke website. Include the basic user information like Name, Address, Username, Password as well as custom profile properties you may have defined in your site. You can even automatically add them to one or more roles. You can code and customize every aspect of the registration form from design & layout to actions, thank you/success messages, alert emails and more. Additionally, with the added Custom Form Actions and Conditional Redirects (new features listed below) you can customize user redirects and more.

• Build Custom Login Forms:

  Simple, easy, and as beautiful as you can make it. Leverage the full power of XMod Pro forms to craft the ultimate DNN login form. Beyond the login action, further customize your login forms with Custom Form Actions and Conditional Redirects for user redirects, additional actions in your database, special error/messages and more.
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  Awesome New Editor

  Add and Remove Roles from Users:

  Ever wanted to allow people to automatically sign up for a service? Now you can. Create a form that will automatically add them to a DNN security role upon successful submission of the form. If they later want to stop the service, you can create a form that will remove them from the role.

• Awesome New Editor:

  XMod Pro's editors keep getting better with each successive release. In version 4, we've taken a huge leap forward to increase your productivity. The new editor has color syntax highlighting, line numbers, auto-complete of XMod Pro tags and properties, search and replace, block indenting/outdenting, and multiple un-do. It even has pop-up tag designers that will prompt you for the tag properties and then generate the tag for you.

• DNN Search Integration:

  Using a custom query, combined with field tokens and your text, you can make sure the DNN search engine indexes and returns exactly the information you want from your custom XMod Pro built solutions and custom database records.

• Secured Feeds:

  Feeds can be used to supply RSS, XML, Comma-Delimited (CSV), Excel exports, JSON data, and just about anything that can be output in a text-based format. Now they`re even more powerful because you can enable them to be viewed only by members of specific DotNetNuke security roles. See the Easy AJAX section for a great new feature that leverages feeds.

• Easy AJAX:

  AJAX is such an important part of websites these days, we've added a number of new features to make this easier for you to implement:
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    Display Inline Feeds
    AJAX Buttons, Links, and Clickable Images: Simply give these buttons the URL you want to retrieve and the element on the page into which you want to place the results and you are done. You can even specify a "loading..." image and XMod Pro will automatically place it in there. You can use these in both forms and templates.
  • Load Feeds Inline: Now you can embed your feeds directly into your DotNetNuke pages quickly and easily. Similar to the AJAX buttons, you specify the name of the feed you want and where in your page to put it. You can have your feed automatically load when the page loads, or load in response to a button, image, or link click. You can even provide a "loading..." image that will display and then hide when the process is complete.

• jQuery Ready:

  We use jQuery all the time in our client and personal development projects. If you do any jQuery scripting you quickly become familiar with the jQuery ready function stub you put into almost every single page. We're helping with that burden by adding it to our new features. Now all you have to do is put a jQueryReady tag in your DNN form or template and XMod Pro will automatically register the jQuery ready block in your page. Even better, it uses a closure to protect your code`s scope from other script in the page and also allows you to use the dollar sign ($) shortcut. All you have to do is start entering your jQuery or Javascript code.

• Conditional Redirects:

  After successfully submitting the form, you can now send your DotNetNuke users to different URLs depending on values from the form. For instance, if the user is submitting a feedback form and selects the "Sales Department" from the Department drop-down list, they can be redirected to the Sales page. If they chose Technical Support, they can be sent to the help desk.

• Silent Posts:

  Sometimes you just need to send some data to a URL but you don't want to send the user there as well. Perhaps you've created a newlsetter sign-up form but you use MailChimp to send your newsletters. Now your form can silently send that signup data to MailChimp and redirect the user to your own thank-you page.

• Enhanced Template Builder:

  You can now have more configuration options. Choose which columns to include in your template, whether to include a detail template, choose which command buttons (add, edit, etc.) to include, set their display (button, image, link) and text, and even set which roles are allowed to perform those actions.

• Custom Form Actions:

  XMod Pro has always provided the tools to go beyond built-in programming to customize it further for you or your client`s needs with custom form controls, custom template tags and, of course, your own Javascript, HTML, and CSS. Now, Developers can also create custom Actions with their server-side code that perform whatever functionality desired. The Action executes after successful submission of the form and any data has been saved to the database but before emails are sent and the user is redirected. Your actions will receive the form`s values and environmental data (like Portal ID and user information). They can use that information to complete their processes and then even modify the form values based on the results, passing them along to the next action in the chain. By doing this, your actions can affect emails and redirection and any actions that execute after your action.
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  Global Forms & Templates

  Share Forms and Templates Across Portals:

  We've implemented an new ability to make forms and templates "global" in scope. Global forms and templates can be used on all of your site's portals. This greatly simplifies maintenance for multi-portal sites since you only have to make changes in one place and those changes will automatically propagate to all your portals.

• Improved Database Interactions in Forms:

  With these you can:
  • Use that newly created record's ID in your form's success template
  • Display a friendly "duplicate record" message to your user, prompting them to try again
  • Display errors thrown by your database when trying to save a record
  • Work with a value returned from your stored procedure

• Better Email Notifications:

  We continue to improve email handling. Emails can now have a "Reply-To" property set and they can use secure SMTP servers (like Gmail) if your site is configured to use them.