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  1. Magnolia In-place templating Module (closed)
  2. MGNLINTEMPL-56

As a developer I can edit the templates of a live website in a sustainable best-practice manner without deploying a new war

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      The current inplace templating is very helpful for understanding how the site works, for debugging problems & for deploying hotfixes.
      But the storage of the templates in the repository is not good for the maintainablity of long projects and is not a best practice.
      At http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/display/DOCS/Template+scripts it states:
      "Editing template scripts in the repository is ideal for evaluation, prototyping or smaller projects. However, it is not maintainable in the long run. Don't do it in a production environment. We strongly recommend that you store the scripts in a version control system and package them into a project module."

      This story is about coming up with a way that developers could easily edit content running on the live site (or author site for publication) in a maintainable way.
      It would not even have to use the existing inplace templating, i'd like to look at the issue from a wider perspective.

      But it would be great if it also supported the inplace templating because this is such a convenient light weight way for people to work with magnolia.

      Different Thoughts:

      • developers can use webdav to edit templates on file system of server.
      • Developer edit files in git - tags in git can be depolyed to server.
      • In place templating connects to files on the server instead of files in the repository.
      • Repository of templates is somehow tied to git repository.

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              czimmermann Christopher Zimmermann
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