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Question about Press release and Company footer mecanism

ribz33 — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:48:56 GMT

Hi,just a little question, I see that we can include a company footer in a presse release.My question is :If i modify my company footer, my press release which include company footer is not update. Is it right ?Is there a way to easily solve it ?Generally, do you have a solution if a content A inclu

Re: Question about Press release and Company footer mecanism

pmonks — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 04:38:47 GMT

In the general case it's impossible to determine the dependency graph for any given derived (generated) asset, particularly when new content is created. For that reason Alfresco only tracks the direct dependencies between an XML file and the renditions that were generated by renditioning templates of the Web Form that generated that XML file.

For the kind of scenario you describe, it's better to compose the page at request time, since that eliminates the dependency problem (independent content items are composed together for each and every page request, so there is no persistent dependency graph to maintain). Unfortunately the WSF sample site (which I'm assuming is where you obtained the press release and company footer Web Forms?) doesn't follow this approach and hence has exactly the dependency problems you describe.

Cheers,
Peter

Re: Question about Press release and Company footer mecanism

ribz33 — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 09:49:47 GMT

Thanks for this answer.
This confirm what i think.

Best regards.