Hello.  If anyone has experience or suggestions for this idea, please post a reply.

We are converting our existing Cold Fusion site to DNN (4.5.5 currently), and we need to store some extra administrative data.  As I see it, we have 3 basic choices: (1) build a custom data source outside DNN (SQL, XML, etc.), (2) build custom tables in the DNN SQL database, or (3) use User Defined Tables with admin-only permissions.  I'm leaning toward using UDT, because of the following reasons:

• One line of code to get data (Dim ds As DataSet = udtCtrl.GetDataSet(ModuleID))
• Easy sorting and filtering with Sort and RowFilter properties on the dataset
• UDT gives you an easy GUI to manage the table and the data
• UDT has granular permissions for multiple website/content administrators
• UDT is core DNN, so upgrades would hopefully not be a problem

Does anyone think using UDT for storing administrative data is a good thing or a bad thing (upgrade problems, migration problems, etc.)?  Does anyone have experience using UDT for this kind of thing?

Thanks!