Steps to add an Attachment Field to Feedback Designer Module for DotNetNuke.

1. Select Configure Module
2. Select Add Edit Form Items
   
3. Enter a Name for the Field (Like Upload File, or Attachment etc.)
4. 
5. Select Add – To add the filed to the Existing Form Items
6. Use the up or down arrows to position the filed where you would like it.
7. 
8. Back and back

The result is a form with file upload ability. The attachment is sent as an email attachment.

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If you see this error

Could Not Load file or assembly NVelocity, Version=1.1.1.0, Culture-nutral, PublicKeyToken=null (Exception from HRESULT: 0×80131040)

While using one of our DotNetNuke Modules. The solution is a simple one.

Update all of the InteractiveWebs DotNetNuke Modules to the latest builds by downloading the latest release from here: http://www.interactivewebs.com/DotNetNukeModules/ModuleDownloads.aspx

The Problem

The problem stems from a change to some of the code library of some modules that share code with other modules. Updating all modules to the latest build will resolve this issue in all our modules.

Main Menu
1. From the module Main Menu, select MODIFY LOOK AND FEEL

2. Use the Text HTML editor to Modify the Introduction text that appears at the top of the public side of the Feedback module. This is uses standard DNN Text HTML editing.

Form Item Layout Text/HTML

3. Here you will find the html code that lays out the form items in the public view. Using the HTML editor, select HTML view mode, and edit the HTML code directly to get the best results.

The most common change it to edit the width of the table that displays all the form items to the public.

To make the form wide and prevent items from spanning two lines. Modify the HTML code in the top line: " ". Change the 250 to something wider like 500

Remember though that your web page, width of the site and container will effect this.

Message Sent HTML

4. This text HTML box can be edited to display a message to the user of your form. When a usre submits a form, the text here will be displayed in the module space.

Form Item Height Width

5. Enter the width that the form Item in this box.

Example.

Gives this result

And a width of 100 gives this result. Note the small width of each item.

From the module menu (see the above help selection for installing the module to a page).

1. Select MODIFY EMAIL SETTINGS

2. Select CLICK HERE TO MODIFY THE SEND TO EMAIL ADDRESS

3. Select EDIT (just after the arrows) to edit the email address and name of the form.

4. Change the form name and email address as desired. Click UPDATE when done.

5. Select BACK TO FORM ITEMS

6. Select BACK TO MAIN MENU

Having installed the Module to your DNN site.

1. Login to your site with Host or Admin permissions.

2. Navigate to the page you wish to add a form to.

3. From the DNN module menu select FEEDBACK DESIGNER and the Pane Location.

4. Select ADD to add the module to the seelcted pane.

5. You will see a warning message advising that the module has yet to be configured. This message will only be seen one time.

6. From the Complete Feedback Designer menu on the module, select CONFIGURE MODULE.

7. You are now presented with the Module Menu. From her select the options you wish to edit by clicking the corresponding CLICK HERE.

We get help requests, and we really do love to help you! Really! but please make sure you have a DNN host SMTP server configured that works before you ask us for help!
This module requires the SMTP server settings to be configure in DNN. This is because it uses the DNN SMTP server settings to send email. To configure…

1) Login as host user
2) Under "Host" menu select "Host Settings"
3) Scroll down and expand "Advanced Settings"
4) Expand "SMTP Server Settings"
5) In the SMTP Server text box type in mail.your_domain.com where your_domain.com is the actual domain name of your site (this same exact host name for smtp, pop3, imap4, and web mail)

You can use authentication for the SMTP server if required. The DNN site will require Relay permissions that are often set to require authentication.

An example of the error you see when you do not have this configured correctly is.

Error: Email Enquiry is currently unavailable.
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.Services.Mail.Mail.SendMail(String MailFrom, String MailTo, String Cc, String Bcc, MailPriority Priority, String Subject, MailFormat BodyFormat, Encoding BodyEncoding, String Body, String Attachment, String SMTPServer, String SMTPAuthentication, String SMTPUsername, String SMTPPassword, Boolean SMTPEnableSSL) at DotNetNuke.Services.Mail.Mail.SendMail(String MailFrom, String MailTo, String Cc, String Bcc, MailPriority Priority, String Subject, MailFormat BodyFormat, Encoding BodyEncoding, String Body, String Attachment, String SMTPServer, String SMTPAuthentication, String SMTPUsername, String SMTPPassword) at iwebs.Modules.CFD.CFD.doSend() — End of inner exception stack trace —

We have created a movie file here to assist: http://demo.interactivewebs.com.au/dnn_smtpsetup/dnn_smtpsetup_demo.htm

DNN SMTP Settings

DNN Websites have the ability to configure in the host settings an SMTP server. When a DNN email is generated from the DNN website, it will attempt to send mail through this SMTP server.

In order that your DNN website can successfully send the email, the SMTP server must allow the email message to be received. Typically this is done in one of four ways.

1. The SMTP server is configured for Open Relay (This should NEVER be done unless you have an external firewall blocking all external SMTP connections. Otherwise your mail server will become a spam server within hours)
2. SMTP Authentication – Typically SMTP servers are configured to allow users with a valid username and password to authenticate themselves. Once they have been authenticated, they can communicate email messages through the SMTP server. This is the same way most ISP’s work their mail servers. The idea is that only users who are customers of the ISP will allow email to be sent from their SMTP servers.
3. Selective Open Relay. The administrator of the SMTP server can also allow Open Relay (same as 1 above) from selective IP addresses. Any communication from an IP address that is configured to allow open relay will be accepted by the SMTP server.
4. Local Host – If your website has it’s own SMTP server configured, typically it will allow email message to be sent form it’s self.

To correctly configure your DNN SMTP settings, you need to understand what method of communication has been configured in the SMTP server you are trying to set DNN to access.

Here is the process you would configure from above.

1. Enter the IP address or valid domain name for the SMTP server, nothing more to do if open relay is allowed. (Still not recommended)
2. Enter the IP address or valid domain name for the SMTP server, and the valid user name and password as would be used to communicate with the SMTP server. This is where you get to use the user name and password setting in DNN.
3. Ensure that the SMTP administrator has allowed the IP address your DNN website uses to have open relay status. Then just enter the IP address or domain name of the SMTP server in your DNN host settings.
4. Configure your DNN host settings to have “localhost” in the DNN SMTP server settings are.

Problems.
There can be some issues that get confusing with the different methods.

1. Open relay mail servers will be attacked by spammers very quickly. They are always on the lookout for mail servers that they can abuse. It is never recommended to have your mail server on the internet and in open relay. Additionally your mail server will be blacklisted by other mail servers if found to be in open relay.
2. SMTP Authentication  can still be restricted to certain IP addresses. Many ISP’s will allow you only to use their mail servers while you are a client of their AND connecting to their mail server from an IP address they own. So thing will work in your Email applications while you are connecting to the internet via their dialup or high speed connection, but as soon as you move away from a connection provided by them, you will not be allows to connect to their servers, let alone Authenticate.
3. Even if your ISP has allowed relay from the address that your mail server is run form, there may be a firewall or block on the normal port that the SMTP servers are typically configured to use. Port 25. If a firewall exists between your web server and the mail server, it must be configured to allow traffic over port 25.
4. You may have web server configured with an SMTP server on the same system. Yet have it be blocked over port 25 for outbound communications. Some ISP’s block port 25 to curb the flow of virus email messages. You need to be sure that your ISP that provides connection to the internet for your web and SMTP server is not blocking port 25.

How to get really confused.
Often mail servers will allow you to send email messages to email addresses on that SMTP server, even though they do not allow you to send mail out. So if you have a web application configured to send email to yourself, and the SMTP settings you use in the DNN host settings are for the SMTP server that runs the same email address you will have success.
Yet when you change the email address in the web application, you can no longer send email, and the web application appears to fail. This is still an SMTP configuration error on your website. You will need to find a method above to solve the issue.

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Note: Your Download Package Needs to be unziped before you start the install process. The file that is installed to the DNN site as a module is named with a "xxx PA.zip"

Motion Demo Here
1. Login to your DNN site as a system HOST

2. Under the host menu, select MODULE DEFINITIONS

3. From the Module Definitions menu, select INSTALL NEW MODULE

4. BROWSE and select the Feedback Designer xx.xx.xx PA.ZIP file for uplad. Then select SAVE FILE.  Note that in some cases you may need to extract this PA files from a password encripted package zip.

5. Check the list of processes that follows for RED warnings and errors.

6. Your module is ready to be access and used on any DNN page in your site or child portals.