Introduction

OpenContent is a flexible, template-driven module for the DNN (DotNetNuke) platform, designed to simplify the management and presentation of structured content. It allows developers and content editors to define custom data schemas and render content using Razor or Handlebars templates. OpenContent supports multilingual content, dynamic layouts, and integrates well with responsive design frameworks like Bootstrap.

Goals of Open Content

• HTML module replacement for responsive websites
• Easy content editing of complex layouts by end users
• Content editing for websites using frameworks like bootstrap
• Not for large amount of data (like articles or catalogs)

Features of Open Content

• Structured content editing of complex data (from single item to multiple lists)
• Template based rendering
• Multi language Static localization of content editing UI
• Template exchange with data definition and templates
• Module title editing from the Content editing UI
• Online template editing

Open Content Architecture

• Content & Template settings Schema definition in standard json schema format
• Content & Template settings UI definition in json format
• Alpaca Form Engine for Content & Settings Form generation http://www.alpacajs.org
• Client side form generation connected thru webapi
• Razor or Handlebars as Template engine for server side rendering
• File based schema, UI & templates
• Data stored in db in json format (as a single complex data element)

Supported field types

• Text
• Drop-down & Radio buttons
• Check-boxes
• Url (with auto complete search in dnn pages)
• Email
• Image (with instant upload and auto complete image search in specified folder)
• Textarea
• Rich text (Simple CKEditor http://ckeditor.com/ or wyzightml http://wysihtml.com)
• List of items
• Table of items
• Mix of multiple single fields and list of items (stored as a single item, not for large amout of data)
• Dependency between fields