I've searched but I can't find any info on "using" BD... 

Can you explain how the Vendor works into all this?  I will not be using vendors in DNN - is this somehow tied to that?  I suppose not.

I am manually entering listings into BD and it is always setting me as the vendor, setting the User ID, Vendor ID, etc... to my DNN account information.  I will also be importing 800+ records into the system - what values will be/need to be placed in these fields for those records?  This is to pre-populate the listing before launching the site.

It seems as though it automatically changes once you assign a user to the account but I notice the User Email under vendor information does not get populated (even though it appears to be required via the red asterisk)?

Please advise - thanks!

 Hi John,

Business Directory was designed with the concept that you would use it as a subscription business model.

Where you canfigure a specific user role that has permission to add listings. Once the user has sucessfully paid for their listing subscription with a tool like Ventrian Subscription Tools or Data Springs Dynamic Registration module, these tools will place the user in the security role that you have desinated can add listings.

When they add a listing they now have the ability to edit only their own listings.

when you manually add listings, as Administrator, you now own that listing and the vendor information is the information of the user who is logged and has added the listing.

You now have the ability to re-edit the listing and view the Admin Options area of the form.

In this Admin area you can assign that listing to another user. Once the admin had assigned the listing that user can now control and edit the listing.

Since the ADDUSERPICKER control in Xmod can only return two values to the dropdown control, we cannot grab the email address of the assigned user and it will need to be added manually.

On our production sites we encourge the user to initally add their own listings. If I am assigning listings, I open two browsers and have one open to the DNN User Roles tab and do a quick lookup of the assigned user's email address.

In regards to importing data, all imports are unique based on the source of the imported data.

Kelly Ford, developer of Xmod, has been available to handle these customized imports.

He can be reached at http://dnndev.zendesk.com/ for futher information.