I'm starting a new project (my first) in DNN 6. The requirements is to have the same content displayed differently based on some criteria.

The main table with content looks something like this:

Campaigns

• Id
• Title
• Content
• DisplayType

I will also have some custom modules. I will use different modules for different display types (the modules will also be used on other pages).

For example, an active campaign will have a photo galery module and a signature module; an inactive campaign will have a searcher and a "donate to the page owners" button. The signature, searcher and donate module will also be used on other pages.

What are some recommendations for such scenario?

Do I just create a plain Asp.NET aspx file? Use query string to get the campaign from database and then display the correct view (ascx)? How do I add modules to this? Can these modules be user defined? User defined per view?

Do I create a module for campaign display, create a page in DNN and add module to it? How can I conditionally display other modules on the page?

Any other approach?

I hope I didn't spout to much nonsense; I'm into DNN just a couple of days.

Luc

Thanks for your reply.

I did manage to do what I needed the quick & dirty way (well, not so quick and a lot more dirty). Two page templates have two pages urls hard coded and they redirect to each others pages based on the state of the record in database. This way each template has its own set of modules that can be customized for active/inactive records.

Later I got the idea to use different containers for the content and hide the one I don't use (this way both views could be managed from same page and there is nothing hard coded in the template), but the project was already spread thinner than my paycheck, so quick & dirty stood.

I'll make sure I check the survey module the next time I'm in DNN business for some more ideas.