I always get stuck with something though – and today was no exception, getting a quick report report for the accounts department showing all orders complete with the dotnetnuke profile info…

Anyway in the end I found a code snippet from the accidental geek which saved my bacon.

An update on the post shows a rather quick way of pulling profile information out of the database,couple this with a quick tweak, and displaying the results through the fantastic Tressleworks SQLGridSelectView and I have my report.

The sql query is shown here

SELECT  o.OrderID, o.CustomerID, od.InvoiceNumber,o.OrderDate, u.FirstName, u.LastName, u.Email, od.ProductID, p.ProductName, od.Quantity, od.UnitCost, CAST(od.tax as decimal(7,2)) as VATRate, (od.Quantity * od.UnitCost) AS Net, CAST((od.Quantity * od.UnitCost * (od.Tax/100)) AS decimal(7,2)) AS VAT,CAST ((od.Quantity * od.UnitCost) + (od.Quantity * od.UnitCost * (od.Tax/100)) AS decimal(7,2)) as Gross, o.paymenttype, o.paymentstate,
upd.Company,
    upd.Street,
    upd.City,
    upd.PostalCode,
    upd.Telephone
 FROM CAT_OrderDetails od
	INNER JOIN CAT_Orders o ON od.orderid = o.orderid
	INNER JOIN CAT_Products p ON od.ProductID = p.ProductID
	INNER JOIN Users u on o.CustomerID = u.UserID
	LEFT OUTER JOIN
(SELECT
    up.UserID,
    MAX(CASE WHEN ppd.PropertyName = 'Company' THEN up.PropertyValue ELSE '' END) AS Company,
    MAX(CASE WHEN ppd.PropertyName = 'Street' THEN up.PropertyValue ELSE '' END) AS Street,
    MAX(CASE WHEN ppd.PropertyName = 'City' THEN up.PropertyValue ELSE '' END) AS City,
    MAX(CASE WHEN ppd.PropertyName = 'PostalCode' THEN up.PropertyValue ELSE '' END) AS PostalCode,
    MAX(CASE WHEN ppd.PropertyName = 'Telephone' THEN up.PropertyValue ELSE '' END) AS Telephone
FROM
    dbo.UserProfile AS up INNER JOIN
    dbo.ProfilePropertyDefinition AS ppd ON up.PropertyDefinitionID = ppd.PropertyDefinitionID and ppd.PortalID = 0
Group By up.UserID) as upd on u.UserID = upd.UserID
order by OrderDate DESC

I have a lot of people after a simple web presence, and most systems are either way too confusing for the client, or way too simplified to be able to do anything with.

Heres hoping that this works a little better than some of my previous attempts:

Joomla – update nightmare

Dotnetnuke – expensive for the hosting (cms is free but on windows) can be a little clunky for a small site, however I do use this daily in a corporate environment

Drupal – was way too complicated for my average client, lasted 5 minutes

hosted wordpress – great, but unable to host ads (a major requirement for some clients)

hosted blogspot/blogger – not bad, and fits the needs of some clients, the only issues are slight content ownership concerns, and limits of 10 pages.