To create an interactive web site there are many different
ways to start. Many people will use a Content Management System (CMS) that
allows users without technical expertise to edit content. There are different
types of CMS applications out there, both commercial and open source.
With the popularity of many different frameworks to create
your internet applications in for .NET, that means there are new schemas to learn
to report on. DotNetNuke, an open source option for your CMS app, has grown
into one of the most popular open source frameworks for Portals in the .NET
space.
In this series of articles we will go over how to create a
few different custom reports. We will discuss how to use DNN as your portal. After
a brief overview of DNN, we will go over how to get information not easily
available in DNN onto reports.