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2sxc - The CMS / CMF of DNN (DotNetNuke)

2sxc is a CMS-Plugin for DNN/DotNetNuke. It makes content editing easier than Wordpress thanks to the TinyMCE WYSIWYG and ADAM asset management.

It's also a CMF like Drupal. And a very cool EAV data-management system. And an online REST JSON database. And a lot more.

2sxc Documentation Overview

2sxc is very flexible and can be used for almost any kind of content-management needs or app development needs. Because of this, different documentations help you work with different things. Here's the overview:

1. Getting started tutorials are found in the Learn section of 2sxc.org
   includes installation, basic instructions, creating your first content-type and similar tutorials &
   it also include instructions how to export/import data, working with the image resizer and more.
2. A list of features, concepts and examples can be found in the Docs section of 2sxc.org, including things not specifically code related
3. Many solutions and recommendations are found in the Blog on 2sxc.org
4. Many demo, template and tutorial Apps are found in the App Catalog on 2sxc.org
5. The general Roadmap
6. App folder structure and special files
7. Style Guide (beta) best-practices draft

General View/Template Features

1. In-Page Content-Editing
2. Auto-Optimization of JS/CSS Assets
3. View-switching based on url-params
4. Security protecting views like admin-views
5. Inner Content / Very-Rich-Text
6. Data types and Field types (ca. 25% documented)

API Documentation

1. C# / Razor API Documentation - ca. 80%
2. JavaScript and HTML API Documentation - ca. 75%
3. REST API to get/edit/delete content-items and WebApi - ca. 50%
4. Data Sources - all, more APIs and API for custom sources
5. Json data format V1 for 2sxc v9.4+
6. setting up 2sxc / eav for development

Concepts (WIP)

1. How DNN modules map to the data items
2. Hiding advanced features
3. DNN / Evoq Page Publishing / Versioning Workflow in 2sxc 9.5
4. file system provided content-types in 2sxc 9.7
5. Token system used in templates & configurations
6. Architecture overview (draft)

ToDo: Next topics to document

• creating custom DataSource objects
• How to contribute
• Setting up the dev environment to contribute

More API Documentation - huge TODO

1. URL and REST API for retrieving / changing data (todo)
2. ADAM - the Automatic Digital Asset Manager (todo) and AsAdam(...)
3. Enhancing 2sxc with custom extensions
   1. Custom input field-types
   2. Custom data-types
   3. Custom templating engines
   4. Custom JS connectors to other libraries
   5. ...
4. Future topics, lower priority 6. Angular2-5 and 2sxc (todo) 6. React and 2sxc (todo) 7. Knockout and 2sxc (todo) 8. jQuery with 2sxc (todo) etc.