Announcements, news, important updates, call-them-as-you-may... they all should stand out and what better way to do so than by using a scrolling text bar. Movement always attracts attention! Here's how easy it is to build one for you DNN website
What you need is:
- the best DNN module for custom tokens (MyTokens)
- the most flexible data manipulation module in DNN (Action Grid) just for an easier admin experience (it is optional if you have another way of getting the data in the database)
- 5 to 10 minutes from your time to implement this
- and some google searching experience to find the best CSS and HTML for your custom project
The video shows you how MyTokens can be used to generate HTML based on data coming from the database similar to the video tutorial here about generating HTML tables or the ones about building a blog module(page) or a slider.
It's a combination of:
- one Razor Script token that generates HTML based on
- one database token that gets the data needed to populate the HTML
Of course, thanks to the power and flexibility of the DNN Sharp modules, the data can be taken from multiple sources like but not limited to:
- local DNN database
- external database
- 3rd party API/web service
- local API Endpoint method
- even an RSS feed