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

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

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

To keep things nice and separate data-preparation from data presentation we added a method called CustomizeData(). This is always called before the template is processed - for showing, for JSON delivery and for search-indexing. added-06.01.00

Need to know more about @Dnn.Portal, @Dnn.Module.Id, Dnn.User, Dnn.Tab or similar - this is your best starting point. added-01.00

This can now be done in code. added-06.01.00

Awesome Image-Resizer with really neat features. added-05.03.00

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

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

Once you apply a list to a template, you suddenly have multile items presented - maybe as a table or as a designed list. What you then often need is a way to add a title before that or create settings for the way the list is presented. added-03.00.00

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

Designed content can be one item, or it can be an entire list of items. This is very easy to do. added-03.00.00

With the simple toolbar you can enhance the editing experience. added-03.00.00

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

Use 2sxc to create lists and then show cool detail pages in lightboxes or otherwise. All SEO-optimized. added-04.00.00

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

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

Now you can connect entities (like authors and books) in awesome ways. Also extremely usefull for tagging and similar scenarios. added-05.03.00

The new RelationshipFilter helps in list-pages to find all items with a category and similar scenarios. added-06.01.00

You can create templates that allow configuration with the Presentation-Element. For example, you could configure image-size or placement, click-behavior or show/hide things in your template. added-03.00.00

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

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