2sxc Documentation

Simple Apps allow quick deployment, installation, testing and clean removal without side effects. Install an app, adapt to your needs - simple and standardized, using tokens and razor. added-06.00.00

With the new DataSource called App you can retrieve data from another App. For example, you can query a References-App from another Portal to show the same references again. added-06.01.00

The user can choose whether he wants to add an item to a list and immediately show a demo-record (with the [+] button), or just open a dialog which doesn't add anything if he cancels. added-05.05.01

Various features of Apps like the Required (DNN) Version or Path ar explained here added-06.00.00

Using the App-Object you can access path information, settings and resources. added-05.05.00

Now apps can use centralized settings and multilingual resources for their templates. Works with tokens and razor. added-06.00.00

Now you can easily get all Categories with App.Data["Category"] or all questions with App.Data["Question"]. You can also use this as the input for further filtering, sorting and more. added-06.01.00

Any visual query you create can also be used from razor using this property. added-07.00.00

Using simple server-side commands, you can create entities, edit and delete them in code. Thanks to this feature, you can create your own edit-dialogs or partial dialogs for workflows and similar. Also create simple or complex feedback forms and more. added-06.05

Supports placing all data in the module into the DNN-Search. This works for simple items (like title/text/image) as well as for lists. The special feature is that it allows you to change how the index works. You could specify an alternate (detail-page) url for each item. added-06.02.00

Now you can easily add any kind of data to the pipeline with the DataTableDataSource. This is great for adding XML, RSS, NoSQL sources, Resx-files and much, much more. added-06.00.06

Easily access backend data with a DataSource. Attach some filters and viola! you get a very powerfull, configuration based data query system. added-04.00.00

Thanks to Github support you can now version your App in Github (data, templates and assets), and 2sxc will ignore all the temporary Github-parts when exporting the app added-07.02.00

All content from 2sxc is 100% cached by default, meaning it will not access the database at all. added-04.02.00

When installing Apps or anything else, everything is done automatically and DNN doesn't need to restart. This is very powerful because in a live large system - downtimes and I-Hope-It-Still-Works-Afterwards are not acceptable. added-06.00.00

With InstancePurpose your code knows if it's running to be templated, for publishing JSON data or for search indexing. added-06.01.00

The JavaScript API provides various automation helping you connect data from 2sxc with JavaScript. added-04.00.00

Amazingly simple integration with knockoutJS. An amazingly simple data-backend using 2sxc, a cool JS-Framework to play with the output - all connected with the Data-Pipeline of 2sxc. added-04.00.00

You can use strongly typed data sources with safe configuration to supply your templates with any data you need. added-05.00.00

Use simple HTML-tags or javascript to create inline or hovering add and edit-buttons added-06.00.00

Now you can user @RenderPage to call other Razor-Scripts, and these scripts automatically receive the save Content, List, Presentation etc. variables to work with. This allows you to re-use partial templates. added-06.00.00

All views in an app can be protected using permissions - thereby ensuring that certain views can only be used by editors / admins. This allows you to create edit/admin-UIs as needed. added-07.01.00

Thanks to new permissions you can give anonymous users access to Queries or even allow creating content-items (like feedback forms). added-07.01.00

You can easily use PetaPoco in Razor Templates with DNN and 2sxc. added-06.00.06

Sometimes you want to pre-fill a new Entity with existing information - like the current date, the users name, or data from another list like a file-ID or infos from an XML-Stream. This is now possible. added-05.05.01

The new quick-dialog shows preview-images for apps, views/templates and content-types. Here's how it works and how you can use it. added-09.01

There are cases where certain parts of an app should be shared across multiple zones / portals. added-02.00.00

It was always possible to use SQL data before, but with the new data sources it actually is fun to use and fully integrated. added-06.00.06

Now any view can have a name in the URL - so that a module showing that App can easily change between views just by adding "Details" or "CategoryList" to the URL. Simple and powerful. added-06.06.00

The new visual query designer helps you retrieve, filter and sort data for use in any kind of template - be it Tokens, Razor, JavaScript, AngularJS etc. added-07.00.00

Thanks to the fully automated WebAPI integration you can easily include and distribute your WebAPIs with you Apps. added-06.05