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How to put two instances of same (shared) module on the same Page?

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Tom Melkonian

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3/25/2020 2:21 PM

How can I put two instances of the same Module on a single page? DNN doesn't seem to let me do this.

When I Add existing module to the page (which already has one instance on it), it removes the first instance.

Can you help me figure this out? Thanks

I hope everyone and their family is OK during this difficult time. Best wishes and health to all. Take care,

Tom

Michael Tobisch

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3/26/2020 4:08 AM

Tom,

afaik this is not possible in the UI (and it would not make much sense in my eyes). Anyway, there is no unique index on ModuleID + TabID in the TabModules table, so it should be possible to do it in the database. But this could lead to a crash in future versions, even if it should work for now.

I would be interested in the use case of putting two instances of the same module on the same page.

Happy DNNing!
Michael

Timo Breumelhof.

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3/26/2020 4:33 AM

Did you try to add it to another page and then move it to the target page?
(I didn't try this TBH)

Timo Breumelhof.

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3/26/2020 4:34 AM

Also, slightly off topic, I'm interested to know what your use case for this is?

Tom Melkonian

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3/26/2020 11:16 AM

Thanks for your responses - Yes I tried moving it from another page as well, with the same result (the first one on the page would disappear when I add the second one)
The reason I want to do this, is to have some html module content which can be updated by a user admin, and have the same html module content in a different pane of the layout, set to show in mobile (using media queries in css). Basically showing/hiding the content in a different place in the layout depending on whether being viewed in mobile (phone or tablet) or not. Without the user admin having to update the content in two different places.

Thanks
Tom

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