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6/23/2011 10:22:04 PM
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Using mojoPortal as a front end ...

Hi All!

I'm new to mojoPortal and have only played with it for a few hours. I've also watched some of the videos on the developer forums and find some of that stuff a little too elaborate for my current needs.

 

Here's what I'm trying to accomplish; perhaps someone can point me in the right direction:

I'm fairly new to web development and another co-worker and I mostly write simple web form apps in VS 2008 and VS2010 to expose SQL Server tables we maintain to various small groups of people in our company. We tend to struggle with the web-based presentation layer, having both come from desktop development backgrounds, and we like the promise and neatness of CMS systems like mojoPortal. Is there a simple, straightforward way for us to insert our singe-page web apps into content pages in mojoPortal? So we end up using mP as a navigational front end to our collection of database access pages. If anyone can offer some advice on how to do this, I'd be most appreciative!

If this is not a good use of the technology, please let me know. I've toyed around using Web Part Pages in Sharepoint and that works, it's just that I don't much like the UI of Sharepoint. Are there any other tools that are better for my purpose than mP?

 

Thanks in advance for your answers!

 

Ginger

6/24/2011 12:41:58 PM
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Re: Using mojoPortal as a front end ...

It isn't really designed for you to plug in .aspx pages in the menu, all the pages in the menu are served from /Default.aspx?pageid=x but we use url rewriting to make friendly urls, but the pages do not correspond to different .aspx pages on disk and the system is not really designed for that.

The best way to do it is to implement your functionality as .ascx user controls instead of as .aspx then you can plug them into the content system and add them to mojoPortal pages. See our Hello World developer tutorial for more.

You could also just add our built in iframe feature to a page and then show your .aspx page inside the iframe, but that would not be my favorite way of doing things.

Hope that helps,

Joe

6/25/2011 10:11:29 PM
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Re: Using mojoPortal as a front end ...

Than you very much!

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