Introduction

Structured Content Editing module for DNN (Dotnetnuke)

Goals

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

Features

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

Archtecture

• 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 conected 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
• Dropdown & Radio buttons
• Checkboxes
• Url (with auto complete search in dnn pages)
• Email
• Image (with instant upload and auto complete image search in specified folder)
• Textarea
• Rich text (Smple 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