I am looking to develop a custom banner feature for a site using mojoPortal.

Essentially the client was looking to have a rotating banner with each banner linking to featured blog posts.

However, I want to make this feature as generic and disconnected from the release code as possible (so didn't want to tie specifically to a blog post).

My thought is that I create a banner manager control to be used in administration. Since I can retrieve the URL of pages in the site as well as URLs for things like blog posts, forum topics etc. I should be to have something like:

Select Page / Module: <RadioButtons for Page/Module>

Select Module (if module radio button selected): <DropDownList of modules Blog, Forum, Gallery etc.>

Select Instance (of module): <DropDownList of available feature instances>

Select Item Type (of feature instance): <DropDownList of available item types e.g. Blog Post, Forum Details, Topic Details, Product details>

Select Item: <DropDownList of available items (of features) or available pages>

Select Banner Image: <file browser control to select/upload banner image>

The idea would be that a user could create a banner that linked to a blog post, a page, a product or even a individual document in a shared document library.

Of course the other method of implementing this would be to add a banner feature to each module but I don't think this is good practise since it will involve modifying existing source code.

Does this sound like a reasonable idea? Joe, (forgive me as I have not looked at the source for mojoPortal yet) but I presume based on the selections made in my example interface there are already methods present for returning list of pages, modules, and feature instances?

Many thanks,

Ben

Thanks Joe,

Just found your article on the banner control

Might I ask where the source code is for this? I had a look on the codeplex site in mojoPortal.Web.Controls but could not find it.

Thanks,

Ben