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Advanced Portal Features |
  
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Advanced Portal Features |
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Advanced Portal Features provides a mechanism to activate or deactivate certain features in Enterprise Forms. Advanced portal feature is portal specific and is accessible to users with Super Users roles only.
Advanced portal features page is divided into 3 separate sections, Advanced Features, Database Connections & Queries and Workflow Processing Tasks.
Advanced Features
Advanced Features section contain features related to general usage of the system.
Section showing features specific to general usage of the system
Feature |
Description |
Session Storage Area |
Session storage area is the general caching area to either improve the performance of the application or use as a temporary storage area. Two support values are Session and Cache. Cache value is the default selection and is generally recommended for most environments. Session is only required for heavy usage sites and is not suitable for web-farm enabled environments. |
Dynamic Code Execution |
When enabled this feature allow execution of CODE tokens in anywhere tokens are supported. For more information on code tokens refer to here. |
Reminder Notification |
When enabled the system will activate a scheduler process that send reminder emails to forms that utilize this feature. Reminder notification is the ability to issue a reminder email to a selected group of users is a submitted form has not been action after certain number of days. |
Database Connections & Queries
Database connections provides the ability to enable or disable the capability to connect to the current DotNetnuke® database and/or external databases. In addition it is possible to allow which type of database connection to be allowed access to execute raw SQL statements.
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Execution of raw SQL is considered as a security risk to users. Thus be careful when granting such access to the form designers
Advanced Portal Features section with features related to Database Connection & Queries only
Feature |
Description |
Datagrid Support |
When enabled the Datagrid field element could be used in forms to display table-like listing of data form an external datasource. |
External Database Connections |
When enabled form designers will have access to create database connections to external or current portal database. In turn database queries could also be created and utilized within the system. |
Direct SQL Support for Databases |
When enabled raw SQL statements can be used when defining database queries or databindings in addition to the default options of Direct Table and Stored Procedures. Note: Current Portal Database is the default DotNetnuke® database. |
Workflow Processing Tasks
Advanced workflow processing task provides a mechanism to execute a piece of work upon a form submission or workflow state change. Workflow processing tasks need to be activated and enabled before it could be used within the forms.
Advanced Portal Features section providing the ability to activate or deactivate workflow processing tasks
To Enable Workflow Processing Task
| • | In the list of Disabled Workflow Processing Tasks, select the required workflow processing tasks to enable. To select multiple items, use Ctrl or Shift key |
| • | Click on Enable Tasks to add to list of Enabled Workflow Processing Tasks |
| • | Click on Update button to apply changes |
To Disable Workflow Processing Task
| • | In the list of Enabled Workflow Processing Tasks, select the required workflow processing tasks to enable. To select multiple items, use Ctrl or Shift key |
| • | Click on Disable Tasks to remove from list of Enabled Workflow Processing Tasks |
| • | Click on Update button to apply changes |
How to Activate/Deactivate other features
| 1. | Login as Host or user account with Super User access |
| 2. | From the Form Template Manager module's menu select Advance Portal Features menu item |
| 3. | Select the checkbox of feature required to activate and/or unselect the checkbox of the feature required to deactivate |
| 4. | Click on Update to apply changes. Changes take affect immediately |