Geoff Bowers spoke the following wise words on 14/03/2004 2:05 PM EST:
For the meantime, anybody have any other ideas?

Sounds like you need a multi-parented tree model. However, that will not work in the current Joe Celko Nested Tree Model we use for FarCry.


We've looked at multi-parented trees through the years and generally come to these conclusions... the trees are slow to render, very difficult to visualise as a GUI for contributors, and generally the multi-parented content confuses users. I'd think hard about the site's information hierarchy and see whether there is an alternative content approach.

If you had someone come to you with a working FarCry site and say "I have 100+ nodes/pages in the tree and I want to also show them under branch x and branch y of the tree and I only want to maintain one copy of them" what would you do?


I guess for content that you know is going to be reused then doing it as non-tree content and using publishing rules and categorisation would be a much more powerful solution - but what if it was all created as tree content to start with?

-- tim

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