Overview:

The KodHedZ Content Management Suite is designed for DotNetNuke (DNN) versions 4.5.1 to 4.9.0, ASP.NET 2.0 and SQL Server 2005.

Understanding of the basic principles of DotNetNuke portal management is required to install and configure these components.  All modules and components can be installed into your DotNetNuke website instance independantly, without affecting any other part of your website (ie: you can still use the standard Html/Text module or any other third party modules).

The Content Server can be configured in many ways to suit your requirements, with most of the package being optional installations.  This allows for a wide variety of options.  We have simplified the installation and configuration steps into two parts, one for the Content Server, and the other for the Content Publishing Websites.  These may be installed into the same instance of DotNetNuke, or the Content Publishing Websites can be installed into a separate instance of DotNetnuke than the Content Server, on Remote or Local machines. 

Because of the wide variety of end users that utilize the websites that content is displayed on, we have provided some Use Cases to guide you through configuring your Content Publishing Websites.  In the section for each module, we will include the steps required for each Use Case:

1. Content is written by approved content authors who have permissions to self-approve and self-publish the content into their authorized website areas. This Use Case is optimized for intranets or informative websites where specific employees manage the content.
2. Content is written by users who join the website for a blogging or social networking experience.

Configuration:

1. If your Content Server and Content Publishing Websites are located in the same instance of DotNetNuke:

• Install the Content Server, Content Administration, Content Loader, Content Drag Drop, Content Manager, Content Manager List, Content Media Manager, Content Approval and Content Publishing modules into the same instance of DNN
• Leave the Content Server DataSource in all module settings to the default of "Local Database"
• For each Content Authoring Website in a different portal than Portal ID 0, login to that portal and use the Content Administration module to Handshake with the Content Publishing Website
• If the Content Publishing Website is in Portal ID 0 and is also in the same instance of DNN as the Content Server, leave all Module Settings DataSources to the default of "Local Database"

2. If your Content Publishing Website is not in the same instance of DotNetNuke as the Content Server:

• Install the Content Server module into the instance of DNN that will hold the central database as well as the web services
• Install the Content Administration and Content Loader modules into each website that will display the content then use the Content Administration module to create a Handshake with the Content Server
• Install the Content Administration, Content Drag Drop, Content Manager, Content Manager List, Content Media Manager, Content Approval and Content Publishing modules into the website that will create, approve and publish the content then use the Content Administration module to create a Handshake with each Content Publishing Website

Installation:

1. Installing the Content Server

• Install and Configure ARC component
• Install Content Server component
• Web.config changes
• Server Management module
  • Content Hosts
  • Content Authors

2. Installing into a Content Authoring Website

• Install and Configure ARC component
• Install Content Administration module
  • Handshake with the Content Server
  • Handshake with each Content Publishing Website
  • Content Authors
  • Initialize Profile settings
• Install the Content Manager module
• Install the Content Drag Drop module
• Install the Content Manager List module
• Install the Content Media Manager module
• Install the Content Publishing module
• Install the Content Approval module

3. Installing into a Content Publishing Website

• Install and Configure ARC component
• Install Content Administration module
  • Handshake with the Content Server
• Install the Content Loader module

4. Installing Additional Modules into a Content Publishing Website 

• Signup for a Content Account
• Content Account settings
• List of Content Authors
• Search for Articles
• Recent Articles
• Most Popular Articles
• Recent Videos
• Recent Images
• Random Videos
• Random Images
• Random Articles