Thanks for all the info!! What about other settings like pre-references, keyword assigments, and list sorts? Do those come with, or do we need to manually do that? Other then having the handy "connection", is this any different then exporting a tempalte and importing it into the second project?
Thanks, Ashley On Dec 17, 12:01 am, "Stephane Ritchot (SR Web Media)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Ashley, > We are currently working with a master project and child project since > version 5.5. > > In our master project, we reproduce a mock site to allow us to test the > changes made in our content classes. Then, when satisfied with the result we > push the changes to all child projects. That way we can achieve major > modifications to all our sites by a click of button and then republish them. > > On crucial element that you need to understand is that when doing the update > of the content classes, it does it to the whole folder of that content > class. In other words, if you have content class A and B in the same content > classes folder, when you'll want to push the changes of content class B, > content class A will be pushed too because they both reside in the same > content classes folder. (Hope this make sense the ways I explained it) > > Another thing that works for us is that we are using a file system to store > our media assets. That way we get the versioning option and the size of the > database project is not too high. The draw back, though, is that when you > export your projects, you need to bring the file system with it. > > Hope this help but if you need more information, let me know! > > SR Web Media Inc. > > Stéphane Ritchot > Conseiller Web > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of UberGeekGirl > Sent: December-16-08 8:50 AM > To: RedDot CMS Users > Subject: How do you use master projects and child projects > > Hi All, > > I know some of you RedDot veterans and power developers have a concept > of Master Project and Child Projects in RedDot CMS. I assume this uses > content class and asset sharing. > > I was wondering if you would be willing to give us bit more > information on how you use these multiple projects together. I am > interested especially in any information you have about how we can > develop/test things out in a master project and only push the changes > to the child project when they are ready... We are currently trying to > figure out the best method of developing while editors are > contributing content (development and migration in parallel). This > method looks much more promising then our current, mistake prone, > solution (just importing the template and re-working everything again) > > Thanks so much for any information! > Ashley- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RedDot CMS Users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/RedDot-CMS-Users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
