As Joe states there is no 'current' portal when installing a module - but if you 'just' need a valid portal id you can fetch the first available. Fill in the rest of the fields as needed - and remember to take the database scheme into consideration (the curly brackets part).

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INSERT INTO {YourDatabase}.{dbo}.[PortalSettings]
           ([PortalID]
           ,[SettingName]
           ,[SettingValue]
           ,[CreatedByUserID]
           ,[CreatedOnDate]
           ,[LastModifiedByUserID]
           ,[LastModifiedOnDate]
           ,[CultureCode]
           ,[IsSecure])
     VALUES
           ((SELECT TOP (1) [PortalID] FROM {YourDatabase}.{dbo}.[Portals] ORDER BY [PortalID])
           ,@SettingName, nvarchar(50),
           ,@SettingValue, nvarchar(max),
           ,@CreatedByUserID, int,
           ,@CreatedOnDate, datetime,
           ,@LastModifiedByUserID, int,
           ,@LastModifiedOnDate, datetime,
           ,@CultureCode, nvarchar(10),
           ,@IsSecure, bit,)

 [/code]

Hi Joe,

thanks for the answer. I wanted to give an initialize value to a portalsettings for my module, but, if I have no references to the current Portal, I can do what DnnBro suggested.

Thanks.

I would just do something like

<code>// This is pseudocode, not c#!<br /> protected string DefaultValueForMyModule {<br />    get {<br />       object o = PortalController.GetPortalSetting(PortalId, "DefaultValueForMyModule");<br />       if (o == null) {<br />          return "DefaultValue";<br />       }<br />       return o.ToString();<br />    }<br /> }</code>

Happy DNNing!
Michael

You can use a technique like this:  

https://github.com/hotcak...troller.cs#L381-L390

You should just be aware that DNN instances that contain thousands of portals exist.  Anytime this is the case, such a technique might not be the best way to do this.