Creating your display templates is easier than ever with our new rich text editor. Now you can create and format your templates in much the same way you would with a word processor. It makes it easy to change the font or color or alignment and many other aspects of your template.

This new addition makes creating forms in XMod a snap. Simply select what control you want to add, set that control's properties and click a button to add it to the form. Need to change some settings? Click the control's Edit button to adjust its properties. Need to change the order of controls on your form? Just drag and drop it there. The Form Builder is so easy to use, new users and pro's alike will find it an essential tool.

Tables Be Gone! If you need the ultimate in control over your page - the ability to decide what HTML gets rendered to the page, be it for standards compliance or because you want an un-ordered list instead of a table - our new Repeater template type has got you covered. With this template, a new world of creativity is at your fingertips. Layout your data in ordered lists, un-ordered lists, definition lists, paragraphs, even your own tables - all with no extraneous markup. Using the Repeater template with CSS, you can create some spectacular views of your data because you're in control.

If you've been hankering to let your users compliment or criticize your data, you'll love the new comments and ratings tags. Built-in to XMod 5 is the ability to have your users add comments or reviews to your XMod records and rate them as well. We give it 5 stars.

Now your XMod data can scroll like the "crawls" on your favorite news or financial cable channel. List Views can be set to scroll horizontally or vertically. You can also change the speed, enable a mouse hover to pause the scroll, and more.

Do you have a list of testimonials, quotes and want to display them in a random order to keep things fresh? This is the feature for you. From the configuration page simply turn on the "Randomize Records" feature and XMod will do the rest.

A new configuration option allows you to filter records to only those added in the last XX days(the number of days is set by you) - making it very easy to create a What's New list. You can optionally combine this with the Recently Modified option (see below) to display records added or updated in the specified time frame.

A new configuration option allows you to filter records to only those modified in the last XX days (the number of days is set by you) - making it very easy to create a What's Changed list. You can optionally combine this with the Recently Added option (see above) to display records added or updated in the specified time frame.

XMod 5 takes a giant leap forward for international users who need to support multiple languages. You've been able to localize XMod's administrative text and other localizability for some time now. Version 5 enables you to define translations of the text in your forms and templates for multiple languages. XMod will then automatically replace your text with the correct translation for the currently selected culture in DNN.

Need some functionality in your templates that XMod doesn't yet provide? Custom template tags allow you to use custom server controls to enhance your XMod templates. Even better, the controls don't even have to know about XMod - so you can use off-the-shelf 3rd party controls too. We'll be creating some nifty new custom template tags and you or 3rd party developers can create them too. All you have to do to use them is include them in your templates.

Now developers can create "managers" that enable XMod to add/edit/delete/display data from other data sources - be they tables in the DNN database, other databases, web services, RSS feeds, etc. With this new feature, you can leverage XMod's form and display engines to work with your own data. Managers provide the flexibility to selectively allow certain features. Want to provide read-only access? You can do that. Will your database support Random Record displays? Enable or disable it based on your needs. Implement only what you need and XMod's interface will change to accommodate - enabling or disabling options in accordance with what your manager implements. For developers, we've included the source code for a starter project, a developer's guide, and the source for the UDT Manager.

You've been able to filter on multiple field values since 4.7. Version 5 extends your flexibility by enabling you to filter on multiple parameter values passed in the URL.