Select a site

IMPORTANT: This version of Sitefinity CMS is out of support and the respective product documentation is no longer maintained and can be outdated. Use the version selector to view a supported product version.

Overview: Dynamic modules and the Module Builder

Overview

If you need additional modules, you can create them with the Module Builder. For example, you can create a module for creating and storing frequently asked questions or press releases. When you create your own module, you can choose what fields it contains. When you activate a module, it becomes visible under the Content tab.

Dynamic modules can have more than one content type and can have hierarchy. For example, you can create an HR module that has the following content types – Personal information, Professional experience, and Education. You can also have hierarchical content types. Such built-in modules are the Blogs module and the Forums module – Blogs content type is parent of Blog posts and Forums content type is parent of Threads. The content items of a module can be multilingual.

Create and display items with a dynamic module

After you have defined and activated your dynamic module, you can use it to create content in the backend and display the created content on your website. The dynamic content types belonging to your module appear under the Content tab and the widgets appear in page editing mode under a separate widgets group. You can create various structures of content types - you can have hierarchical content types with multiple child content types. You use your module to create dynamic content items. The fields you have defined for the content types appear when you create a dynamic content item.
This section contains:
  • Dynamic modules
    Create dynamic modules with at least one content type or with hierarchy of content types. Activate the custom module and create more content types.
  • Dynamic content types
    When you use different content types in dynamic modules, you can make each content type to have different fields.
  • Dynamic content items
    You use your dynamic module to create dynamic content items. The fields you have defined for the dynamic content types appear when you create a dynamic content items.
  • Dynamic content widgets
    If you have created and activated a dynamic module, the system automatically creates a widget and displays the widget in the content widget group. You use the widget to select which of your dynamic content to display on the website and to choose how to display the content.
  • Administration: Dynamic modules
    You can manage various configurations of dynamic modules, related to permissions, module settings, and the content items in the dynamic modules.
  • For developers: Dynamic modules
    Sitefinity CMS enables you to create hierarchical data structures using the Module builder. You can add complex hierarchies containing multiple child types.
  • Tutorial: Create Travelling agency site with hierarchical types
    This tutorial demonstrates how to create the Travelling Agency demo project that utilizes the multiple child types feature in Sitefinity. You create complex hierarchies of data structures using the multiple dynamic module types.
  • Comments and ratings for dynamic content types
    After you create a dynamic module, you can change its comments settings individually. You can control the comments settings for newly created modules from Comments module Default settings.

Back To Top

Next: Overview: Comments module