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 would ask them to explain why it is they thought their users would not be as confused to find *exactly* the same content in a branch stuck in another area of the website. Individual pages/functionality that appear multiple times is good -- eg. contact us, search, jobs maybe. But the entire branch unchanged is somewhat strange.
Might be better to restructure the site hierarchy so that it is clearer where the content resides, provide cross links, and promote key areas of the branch/section.
What other websites out there replicate whole sections of the site hierarchy??
-- geoff http://www.daemon.com.au/
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