How To Guides, Expert Advice, and Other Announcements from Engage

Engage CTO, Brian Dukes, is heading to the DNN Connect conference in Switzerland to join the panel of guest speakers. Read Article

What is the latest version of DNN Platform (DotNetNuke) and what is the current version of DNN Evoq? The open-source DNN Platform 9.11.0 was released on September 28th, 2022 and the licensed version, Evoq 9.11 was released on January 9th, 2023 (all license levels: Evoq Content Basic, Evoq Content, and Evoq Engage). Release candidate DNN 9.11.1 should be out in February 2023. Read Article

Dave Gambino, Chief Revenue Officer and Lead Sales on the Engage SaaS product, Faith Enroll, along with Trica Brotherton, Customer Success Manager, are heading down South to attend GO! The Gulf Coast Faith Formation Conference on Jan 13-14th 2023. They are attending the conference to represent Engage's religious education enrollment software - Faith Enroll. This 2023 conference marks the return to an in-person conference and features a variety of speakers & presentations throughout the 2-day conference. Read Article

How do you add new content to a page? DNN has two methods depending on if you are creating something from scratch or if you have a pattern that you want to mimic. From scratch - you would choose the "ADD NEW MODULE" option Mimic a pattern - pick "ADD EXISTING MODULE" Here are the steps to do both. Read Article

Since acquiring SMB Creative Group in Jan 2020, the team has been super busy and has built new partnerships - Catholic Faith Technologies and Aware3. Catholic Faith Technologies: A division of Nelnet, Catholic Faith Technologies (CFT) offers solutions for online learning, faith formation, employee/volunteer onboarding and more. SMB, now under Engage, already had many religious clients. Read Article

Within your DNN site, each module has a menu for MODULE SETTINGS. You access the module settings by going into edit mode and then on the module, hover over the gear wheel of the module and click on settings. Learn more about the different settings and what you do with them. Read Article

In order to edit existing content, you need to have editing access to the site. That will either be an Adminstrator role or a specific content editor type role. If you need editing access, you will have to reach out to your site's manager. Step 1 - Login Step 2 - Navigate to the page you want to edit, then click on the edit pencil icon in the lower left corner Read Article

DNN has the ability to assign roles to users, to create business-specific roles, and show/hide content based on those roles. The three basic roles are Administrators, Registered Users, and Subscribers. Administrators are your web experts who need access to the back end of things. There is also Host/SuperUser access, which should be reserved for the website builder and expert developers. Read Article

We are going to cover Page Settings, Page Appearance and Page Permissions within DNN platform. The Licensed version, Evoq, has slightly different options, but the basics are the same. To access a page's settings, you can hover over the CONTENT icon and then click on Pages. Read Article

How do WCAG and ADA work together? And, do websites have to be ADA compliant? WCAG is the set of guidelines that websites need to follow in order to be ADA compliant. Following WCAG improves the user experience and avoids the possibility of a lawsuit. Simply put, websites need to be ADA compliant because it’s the law. Read Article

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