Soma Elite is a powerful content processing module for DotNetNuke that makes it easy to improve your existing content regardless of the module or skin it’s created by. Turn simple text into exciting interactive information by using Soma’s Tag Rendering Engine.

Create Your Own Tokens: DotNeNuke includes a few tokens you can use on your site, now you can create your own Token and define the replacement values. Just create the new token in Soma Elite and then use in any module or skin.  For example, you could create the token "[UserSalesLimit]" in Soma Elite that will call a SQL Statement using the current users User ID and return the current sales limit applied to the current customer.  Then just use the text "[UserSalesLimit]" in your skin or module to have this text replaced with the return value from your SQL Statement.

Improve Existing Content: Use Soma Elite to change every instance of a word on your site to a clickable link that will display a pop-up window that provides more information about that word, streaming video, flash, audio file and more.

Save Time: With Soma Elite you can now turn boring text into fully interactive content. The best part is that if you need to change that content you only need to update Soma Elite. You no longer need to update countless modules, articles, etc. One simple change in Soma Elite automatically changes every instance of that content throughout your entire web site.

Easy To Use: Create a Tag in Soma Elite for the word “ProductX” that is a PopUp Window with full details, images, video, etc about “ProductX”. Next, add Soma Elite to pages on your site that you want to be processed. Any instance of the word “ProductX” on your site will be replaced with a hyperlink that will open a pop-up window with the HTML content you specified. That’s it!

Below is a list of a few ways you can use Soma Elite on your web site:

• Add Soma to your forums page and setup tags for your products. Every time someone makes a post that contains one of your product names, Soma Elite will automatically convert that simple text to a clickable hyperlink that opens a window containing HTML with full details, images, videos, etc about your products.

• Need to hide some functionality or text in a module but the module doesn’t offer the ability to do so? No problem, use Soma Elite to search for and replace content for you without having to write any code!

• Add new functionality to any module by creating a Tag in Soma Elite that will provide more information about a modules fields.

• Change every occurrence of your company name to a hyperlink that will take people to your “About Us” page.

• Setup automatic WIKI links for specific key words used in your forums. Change article content by converting specific words to WIKI look-ups, Pop-Up Windows that contain HTML content and more!

• Easily add content from any web site. For example, you could create a Tag called “CNN” in Soma Elite that pulls the top ten news stories from CNN’s web site. After you create the tag, just use it in a Text/HTML module or in your forums to have the word “CNN” replaced with a listing of the latest news!

• And much more! The possibilities are endless.

--Soma Elite Functions--

• Database Value: This function will execute the SQL Statement you provide and replace the Token string you specified with the value returned from the SQL Statement. For example, if you entered the SQL “Select Email from Users where UserId=[USR-USERID]” and set the Tag Text as “EmailAddress” then add the text “EmailAddress” to a Text/HTML module and save, you will see your email address listed on the page where you had the Tag Text.
• Replace: The Replace function simply replaces text found on your page with the content you specify. This does not need to be actualy text, it can be HTML that is replaced as well.
• PopUp Window: The PopUp Window function replaces your text with a hyperlink that opens a Window displaying the information you entered into the Content text box.
• Wiki Look-Up: The Wiki Look-Up function adds a hyperlink the page that opens a new window to http://www.wikipedia.org/ and displays the current Wikipedia content for the Tag Name you provided.
• Email Link: The Email Link function adds a hyperlink to the Tag Name that will send an email to the email address you enter into the Tag Parameters.
• Image PopUp: The Image PopUp function replaces your Tag Name with a clickable image that opens a new Window displaying the HTML content you specified in the “Window Content” textbox.
• External Site Content: With the External Site Content Function, you specify the web site you want to pull information from as well as the start and end tags. The Start and End tags define the portion of the sites content you want to display. These “tags” can be HTML Tags or any token string within the page specified.
• Fading Content: The Fading Content Tag will fade content you specify in and out cycling through a list of content elements to be displayed. Each content element is delimited by a semi-colon and the content can be simple text or HTML.
• Shuffle Content: The Shuffle Content Tag will shuffle content you specify in and out cycling through a list of content elements to be displayed. Each content element is delimited by a semi-colon and the content can be simple text or HTML.
• Scroll and Pause Content: The Scroll and Pause Content Tag will scroll content you specify in, pause and then scroll out; then repeat through a list of content elements to be displayed. Each content element is delimited by a semi-colon and the content can be simple text or HTML.
• Thumbnail PopUp Content: The Thumbnail PopUp tag displays a small image that when clicked will display a larger image centered on the screen with the parent disabled. This is a great way to show small images within your content that display larger images when clicked so you don't need to have use an image gallery that leaves all of your images grouped in one section of the page instead of directly in your content next to the phrases they relate to.
• Fading Content: The Fading Content Tag will fade content you specify in and out cycling through a list of content elements to be displayed. Each content element is delimited by a semi-colon and the content can be simple text or HTML.
• Shuffle Content: The Shuffle Content Tag will shuffle content you specify in and out cycling through a list of content elements to be displayed. Each content element is delimited by a semi-colon and the content can be simple text or HTML.
• Scroll and Pause Content: The Scroll and Pause Content Tag will scroll content you specify in, pause and then scroll out; then repeat through a list of content elements to be displayed. Each content element is delimited by a semi-colon and the content can be simple text or HTML.
• Thumbnail PopUp Content: The Thumbnail PopUp tag displays a small image that when clicked will display a larger image centered on the screen with the parent disabled. This is a great way to show small images within your content that display larger images when clicked so you don't need to have use an image gallery that leaves all of your images grouped in one section of the page instead of directly in your content next to the phrases they relate to.