Documentation way out of date about orcharddoc HOT 9 CLOSED

Thanks for offering to contribute. The process is very simple. Just edit the pages from Github or from a clone, then request that your changes are pulled. It can't go wrong: it won't get published until we pull the changes. We can also ask you for revisions if necessary.

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Okay. But that leaves the larger issue hanging--the instructions themselves seem to be at least partly deprecated. Do you have the up-to-date steps that need to be followed? If you have even just an outline of how things have changed, then I'll run through the process on my machine, and document it.

In the meantime, I'll make some of the more cosmetic changes now.

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I'm sorry, no, I don't. Let me answer some of your points however.

1. yes there is. Not sure why you wouldn't see it. However, your next question gives me a clue.
2. If it doesn't find the solution, then maybe you are working with the runtime package instead of the source code package. Can you confirm?
3. OK
4. Good point.
5. Yes, seems like it.
6. Not sure what you mean here.
7. Modules get dynamically compiled by Orchard. No compilation step or restart of the application required. It really is that simple, yes.

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Late last night, after leaving my follow-up, I realized that I was working on custom website's source, not on Orchard's source. This explains, I think, items 1 & 2.

There is a Bing module that is available for download. That module already has the lat/long input fields.

And got it on the "simplicity" factor. I hadn't realized that it so cut-and-dry.

I do think some of the issues I was running into have to do with the fact that I was working on my website, rather than the Orchard solution. I'll take another crack at it today and see what happens. I've made some edits to the docs, to clean up some of the other points. When I get to a point where it all makes sense, I'll submit a pull request.

Thanks for your responses.

Oh, on item #5: To what are you responding "Yes"? That there is a disconnect in the docs, or that I'm missing something? Is the documentation correct, and the Google static map is what is being used with Bing, or is this in error?

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I meant yes it looks like an inconsistency in the docs.

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Okay. Just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything.

I'm still playing around with the module stuff. I will admit to not always being the brightest bulb in the pack when dealing with large systems like this.

I'm trying to get my head around creating custom data sources and modules that don't actually create content. For example, I'm trying to create a customized registration page for my wife's website, but all of the tutorials seem to be geared towards creating content handlers and parts. And the forms modules that are a part of the gallery all seem to be as well. But the form I want to build is geared towards the users registering for courses (with the data being stored in a custom table), not for creating new pages. And I don't seem to be getting my head around how to do this.

Do you have any suggestions for what to look at? I looked at the Comments module, but there is so much going on there, I really am not sure how to wend my way through it. That seemed to be the most analogous feature to mimic.

Not asking for hand-holding here. I realize that's not your job. But if you have any suggestions, or can point me to documentation that addresses this, I'd really appreciate it. I love the general approach that Orchard takes, and I'd actually like to contribute to the project. I think I can put together some documentation, in particular, that may be worthwhile.

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Okay. Just wanted to make sure I'm not missing anything.

I'm still playing around with the module stuff. I will admit to not always being the brightest bulb in the pack when dealing with large systems like this.

I'm trying to get my head around creating custom data sources and modules that don't actually create content. For example, I'm trying to create a customized registration page for my wife's website, but all of the tutorials seem to be geared towards creating content handlers and parts. And the forms modules that are a part of the gallery all seem to be for generating content. But the form I want to build is geared towards the users registering for courses (with the data being stored in a custom table), not for creating new pages. And I don't seem to be getting my head around how to do this.

Do you have any suggestions for what to look at? I looked at the Comments module, but there is so much going on there, I really am not sure how to wend my way through it. That seemed to be the most analogous feature to mimic.

Not asking for hand-holding here. I realize that's not your job. But if you have any suggestions, or can point me to documentation that addresses this, I'd really appreciate it. I love the general approach that Orchard takes, and I'd actually like to contribute to the project. I think I can put together some documentation, in particular, that may be worthwhile.

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That sounds like a completely different topic. Can we move this to discussions on CodePlex? This way, you'd get more people answering, and we wouldn't make this thread off-topic. Thanks.

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Totally fine. I figured as much. Just thought I'd throw it out to see if you had a quick pointer or two.

Thanks for humoring me!

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