Hi everyone,

I wanted to let everyone know that Dynamic Registration 3.0 is well underway. The module has been in development over the last several months and will be ready for beta by the end of June. We hope to have the full release out by the end of July.

Here are a few new features to check out in the upcoming release:

• In-Line Editing - You will now be able to maintain the registration header/footer, and the questions label and so forth with in-line editing. This means that you will be able to click on the label and change the label directly on the user-facing page without having to go into the administration area (similar with out the DotNetNuke text module works in 4.5.3).
• Question Events Enhancement - You will now be able to specify multiple affected questions for question events. For example, this means that if you specified that checking a box for a checkbox field fires the event you could have it hide maybe 10 other fields (or show 10 other fields etc...). Previously you could only specify one affected field for question events
• New Javascript/AJAX features. Now when setting up a field label if you tab off of the label it will automatically default the short field name and help text for you.
• Auto set sort order for new questions
• Ability to clone questions
• Edit button displayed next to each field on the user-facing registration page. This will allow you to edit fields faster without having as many postbacks
• Ability to over-ride label/field sytlesheet classes per field. This would allow you for example to have just one particular field label with was using a styleclass such as normalred even when all of the others were normalbold etc...
• Checkbox field types - now display text to the left or right of checkbox fields.
• Optionally hide field labels per field
• Support for Check Box Groups and Radio Button fields types to now set the number per row
• Ability to change module title to a different title when the user is updating their registration. For example maybe your module title is 'Register'. You will now be able to specify a new title when the user is already signed in such as 'Update Registration' etc...
• Ability to Hide Password Fields for registration updates
• Ability to hide userID field field for registration updates. Previously all field types could be hidden but the password/userid fields. Now that these can be hidden you can setup multiple profile pages throughout your portal where the user could maintain different profile pages if you wished.
• New feature for Dynamic Role Events. Now you can specify the number of days for the role to expire.
• When managing users the module would previously redirect to the home page after updating a users registration. New enhancements have been added to redirect the user back to the manage users page
• New field types for Captcha and Rich Text Editor
• Now link all field types to DNN Core Field types. Previously you could not link fields such as checkbox field types
•  Now specify security for who has access to manage users and manage questions (for users who do not have edit permissions to module)
• New sytlesheet classes for all table, table rows and table cells within the module.

A few more coming up but that highlights some of whats ahead. We will be posting updates in the next several weeks regarding the final release dates.

-Chad

Hi guys. Dynamic Registration 3.0 beta seems to be going very well. Aleksandar will be getting started on documentation probably early next week and we will also put up a copy on the www.betasprings.com site (as soon as we upgrade it to 4.5.x). We have a few clients running on the beta now and are monitoring their implementations, so far so good and we are getting some very positive feedback. After working in some use-case example's this last week we implemented a few additional enhancements for AJAX/Javascript and client side code that really improve the modules usability (both as a user an administrator). A few examples...

• Now when you are adding or updating a dynamic field and you change the sort order client side javascript code will let you know where it will fall into place within the form. This way you never have to save a field and then later go change the sort order
• Now longer field names are only added to the question dropdownlist (within manage questions) as 'Field Name...' once they are a certain number of characters
• Changed example text to allow for larger examples. In the future we will end up allow you to do all types of javascript tooltips and quick pop ups when a user tabs on/off a field etc
• A few new validation enhancements. Now if the user errors on a required field it can either throw them to the top of the form, the bottom, set the focus on the first field that errors, etc... Additionally (and this is great!) you can specify a stylesheet class for fields that have thrown the validation error. So you could potentially change the stylesheet class to have a red background and it would highlight the fields that the user missed with the red background etc...

More to come, full release will be out in July. No exact dates yet because we will await additional beta testing but ill keep everyone posted.

Also, the download for the beta was added under the Beta Testing forum. If you are a Data Springs Collection client and are not already part of the beta forum (and would like to be) please contact us.

Thanks,

Chad

We are using 3.0 beta and we didn't come across any problem yet. There are few minor issues:

1. Group Name/Label: How to add Group Name (like Fieldset tag) for a set of fields in a regsitration form ? Suppose I want to place

Address

(-) at top of unit, city, postal code fields and

Other Information

at top of Avatar, Locale etc ? So we need a different set of Header html element for a different group of fields.

2. How to increase the width size of an Image / File Upload type fields ? All the fields in regsitaion form works except Image / File Upload fields.

Hi. 3.0 will be released by the end of the week. We were working on finishing documentation (WOW, now 124 pages!). I am attaching the documentation for anyone to review before final release but basically we are looking at releasing 3.0 on 7/26.

-Chad

Is the functionality we discussed here , for allowing checkboxes in Registration completion events, included in 3.0? I don't see it listed, but you said it would be.

I installed Dynamic Registration 3.0 on my DNN instalation today (4.05.03). For some reazon I canot create completion events based on the answer from a dynamic field. When I click on the drop down box to selec the synamic field, nothing comes up and I have at least 5 set up. am I missing a setting somewhere.

Thanks Benjamin

Anne - Although not specifically mentioned here, yes, you can not create question events based on checkbox group fields and listbox fields, just as discussed in that thread.

Benjamin - Hi, this was discovered today and we updated the download on Snowcovered. You can download the module again and just install on top of the current release. I believe its 3.01.00.

Thanks.

-Chad

Chad,

I think I will need 3.01.00 as well.  I'm using completion events based upon a dynamic field.  You had just provided me access to 3.00.00 via a snowcovered help ticket.  How can I get access to this hotfix?

Thanks!

Brian