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The company I work for is switching over completely to DNN. All of our websites were previously built in Drupal and Wordpress. I'm looking for DNN equivalents to Views in Drupal and/or Advanced Custom Fields in Wordpress.

I did find this DNN extension, which seems like it will get part of the job done: http://store.dnnsoftware.com/home/product-details/xmod-pro-46-forms-and-views-for-databases

Are there any others? Am I going about this the wrong way?

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DNN have recently announced that DNN 8 will include the Dynamic Content Creator API and modules, through which the platform will support these sorts of custom content types (i.e. collections of fields).

Other 3rd party modules that are in that space include:

We've been having a lot of success with 2sxc recently. It's open source, actively developed, has good separation of concerns, and good portability. We've moved away from Form & List because it lacked simple portability. I haven't personally used the other two, but know that many people swear by them.

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  • Thank you! This is exactly what I was looking for. DNN 8 is different from evoq 8, correct? – gwydionismyhero May 20 '15 at 22:48
  • Yes, Evoq 8 is built upon DNN Platform 7.4 (the current release), and the next major DNN Platform release is version 8 (i.e. there will not be a DNN 7.5). – bdukes May 21 '15 at 02:45
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I discovered Easy DNN News Module, and I'm liking it. It mimics a bit more closely the functionality of ACF in Wordpress. It's more bulletproof than 2sxc, which was susceptible to a lot of user error when trying to define content types and templates.

It isn't perfect, as I have to do some odd workarounds in the admin UI, but I wanted to recommend it here if anyone else was looking for something similar.

http://www.easydnnsolutions.com/modules/easydnnnews/overview

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