[DOCU-123] Content reuse Created: 15/Feb/11 Updated: 16/Jul/12 Resolved: 26/Oct/11 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | Documentation |
| Component/s: | content |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | Task | Priority: | Major |
| Reporter: | Antti Hietala | Assignee: | Unassigned |
| Resolution: | Fixed | Votes: | 0 |
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| Description |
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Write a tutorial about content reuse options. Objective is to render the same page in multiple locations of the content hierarchy or render the same paragraph on multiple pages, a common request. Our standard answer to such as request is that Magnolia does not provide built-in functionality where the same page exists in multiple locations in the hierarchy but this behavior can be simulated. Options:
None of these options are really ideal. Aperto has a better approach that relies on dedicated templates for content reuse. This should become best practice. Business case for reusable pages Business case for reusable paragraphs Reusable pages best practice
+ Parent company
+ Products
- Life insurance (source page) <-----------
- Car insurance |
- Home insurance |
+ Affiliate |
+ Products |
- Life insurance (inherited, Shadow Template points to source) ---
- ...
Reusable paragraphs best practice
+ Home - Sports (contains a Referenced Paragraph that points to reusable content) - Business - Blog - ... + Reusable content (hidden hierarchy) - Support hotline - Connect with Facebook - Today's market data Address the issue of canonical content. Which of the similar pieces of content is the unique source. This is important for SEO purposes. Use the canonical URL tag or permanent redirect. See SEO tech brief. Other use cases:
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| Comment by Antti Hietala [ 08/Apr/11 ] |
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ChristianR's example of fetching the content of one page and displaying it on another page. |
| Comment by Suzanne Deprez [ 22/Sep/11 ] |
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Started working on this under Technical Guide. |
| Comment by Suzanne Deprez [ 30/Sep/11 ] |
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Have this procedure for reusing pages:
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| Comment by Natascha Desmarais [ 05/Oct/11 ] |
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fetchPage_dialog.png: Displayed dialog for ChristianR's fetch page example |
| Comment by Natascha Desmarais [ 05/Oct/11 ] |
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fetchPage_output.png: How the site is rendered within the admin view. The little link that states where the content is fetched from is NOT displayed in the final output. This is just a help for authors. |
| Comment by Natascha Desmarais [ 05/Oct/11 ] |
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Also attached the xml exports of the template and dialog configurations. |
| Comment by Suzanne Deprez [ 06/Oct/11 ] |
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Updated reuse page section in Content reuse page on docuauthor to document template, dialog, etc. I developed for reusing a page. |
| Comment by Suzanne Deprez [ 17/Oct/11 ] |
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Moved page to Use Cases. |
| Comment by Suzanne Deprez [ 25/Oct/11 ] |
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Submitted activation of page and images. |
| Comment by Antti Hietala [ 26/Oct/11 ] |
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Approaches documented in http://documentation.magnolia-cms.com/use-cases/content-reuse.html |