The Advanced Control Panel Package contains two different cutting-edge control panels developed for you to utilize in your DotNetNuke 5+ installation. An optimized version of the original Iconbar, and a new advanced Ribbon Bar, released as a free holiday gift for the DNN community as a collaboration between Sebastian Leupold and myself.

The new Ribbon Bar takes up less space than the original control panel while adding numerous features as well as improving the core DNN admin management features, making your website incredibly easier to understand for all your administrators.

Have you struggled with slow page refreshes while administrating your site? You should use our new method which completely removes all those annoying refreshes and postbacks that cause an incredible amount of delay during administration tasks. Additional features have been included, such as a copy function, which will duplicate a module from another page (similar to the export/import feature, only 1 click), and also a per-user favorites / bookmarks menu

After installation, on the Host Settings page you'll have a total of three choices for a control panel: 
- (original) IconBar
- Optimized 
- advanced RibbonBar

If you like this control panel, be sure to check out my other free modules. This is work in progress. please help support further development with a donation today.

RibbonBar:

1. Intelligent saving space using JQuery UI
2. Multiple views (default ribbon style, compact text links, and expandable icon mode)
3. All actions are executed without any page refresh by utilizing AJAX callbacks
4. Features / Functions:
   1. Mode: switching between View and Edit now with only a single click
   2. enter page settings, add new page or delete current page with a click, use context menu for duplicate, import and export
   3. add modules allows to create from scratch, copy or reference an existing module. additional information will be queried in a small popup
   4. common tasks include Help, our Feedback request and the admin / host menu (permission based)
   5. per-user favorites / bookmark menu

Further features will be added based on users' feedback - e.g. a customizable favorites menu

Optimized IconBar:

1. CSS-Sprite which contains all the icons, reducing over 15 HTTP requests between the client/server
2. half as many server side controls, which reduces the viewstate and html footprint slightly
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The Advanced Control Panel Suite by Oliver Hine

v1.1.5 - 2/26/2010

• fixed issue with module title always using the default title
• removed the requirement on the admin console module for controlling the visible state of the admin menu, now checking if the current user can view the admin tab

v1.1.4 - 2/25/2010

• fixed issue with cached scripts and css files after upgrade
• fixed issue with module placement when using the above/below options
• fixed issue when adding modules with multiple view definitions (DNN Blog)
• moved menu handles graphics into css sprite image

v1.1.3 - 02/20/2010

• switched page dropdown list to an ajax callback
• adjusted the z-index of popup menus / dialogs
• added missing localization keys

v1.1.2 - 02/19/2010

• added 'Create a New Page' dialog mode
• added 'Change Container' option in the new module dialog
• replaced the module and feedback dialog with the bookmark styled dialog
• fixed copy/link module list when the current page is empty
• fixed issue with cached scripts and css files after upgrade
• disabled the add/copy/link module when you're on a module admin control

v1.1.1 - 02/02/2010

• switched from using '$' to 'jQuery' to fix issues with ows
• fixed issue when clicking bookmark twice
• fixed issue with chrome not being able to delete bookmarks

v1.1.0 - 02/01/2010

• added favorites / bookmark feature
• added check for IsVisible and IsDeleted in the admin/host menu callback
• added missing localization keys
• targeting asp.net 3.5 / DNN5.1+
• fixed pin/unpin visibility setting
• enabled option strict

v1.0.2 - 01/14/2010

• added basic jQuery 1.4 support (removed dialog animations)

v1.0.1 - 01/10/2010

• added multiple views (default ribbon style, compact text links, and expandable icon mode)
• added YUI compressor for js/css files
• added admin / host icons by Jojo Mendoza
• added local jqueryui v1.7.2 or hosted v1.* based on your host setting for jquery
• fixed expand and progressbar imagepaths
• fixed localization of admin/host menu items
• removed the delete confirm alert when button is disabled

v1.0.0 - 12/25/2009 - Merry Christmas!

• automatically enabled after installation
• switched page settings and feedback icons

v0.0.4 - 12/24/2009

• new ribbon bar control panel

v0.0.3 - 11/29/2009

• fixed animation

v0.0.2 - 11/25/2009

• fixed Host NavigateUrl

v0.0.1 - 11/23/2009

• removed 15 serverside controls
• optimized 15 images into a single graphic