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Originally Posted by scooterresource

Does the Dynamic version still have the ability to pull from threads as well as storing it's own separate entries?

Not apparently. To clarify that answer... CMPS is a terrific portal that is pretty flexible and through the use of "modules" it can be used to display just about anything. Dynamics is a flexible system that, at it's heart, is a system of storing entries that can be made to resemble any number of different systems (eg: people are using it articles, blogs, reference listings, etc.) and it incliudes a lot of the functionality of CMPS but not all of it (two different packages to fill two different needs). One of the things it can do like CMPS can is to work with different modules.

So with that said... by default the Dynamics pages are geared towards displaying the content stored in it's tables but by using modules you could also, for example, have a block on the page displaying the latest threads from the forums but the main 'focus' of the page would be the Dynamics content.

CMPS is a free product available for download at the vBa support site. Dynamics has a cost associated with it.

Oh, and a disclaimer... I am a staff member over at vBa. To avoid anybody accusing me of turning this into a sales pitch thread, if you post over at vBa in the pre-sales forum we can go into more detail as to whether Dynamics would be best choice or not. Either way, though, if you convert to vBulletin, vBa CMPS (portal) is freely available and has a transparent install so you can always install it to experiment with without your users ever knowing about it.