> common, real world scenario that is poorly addressed in Spectra. The COAPI
> will certainly support building tools to support this scenario,
> but a better
> methodology should have been supported within Spectra itself. We wrestled
I think your kind of right here, but I don't see this as a negative. I think
every CM product strikes a line between out of box tools and extensibility.
I think Spectra has less out of box type tools, but is much more open than
other products. In my opinion, this is better, but of course, I'm biased.
> with this same issue ourselves for some time. I assumed that we simply
> didn't understand the application and framework well enough to solve our
> problems. Over time, however, we have determined that the combination of
> containers, publishing rules and versioning implemented in the WebTop
> offered a lot but, in some ways, it was too complex for the end users.
I'm not sure I understand you. Yes, Spectra itself can be complex, but the
end user only sees what you build for him/her. As an example, at my last job
the client thought the default container editor was too complex. So, I built
my own. This didn't take much time and it's code I can use again and again.
To me, that's one of the strengths of Spectra. The "built in" tools, like
the containers, are not forced down your throat. If you (or the client)
don't like a particular tool, it's easy to roll your own.
> Spectra seems to have approached the issue of staging and
> deploying content
> changes on a monolithic level: everything changes all at once. It seems to
> be geared toward content changing fairly infrequently, like weekly or
> monthly. In my experience, change happens daily, hourly maybe, and is very
Wow, again, this doesn't seem like what I've seen at all. But, as always,
I'm biased, and I've been using the product for some time. I'm curious why
you say that Spectra doesn't work well with content that needs to change
often? Did you investigate PLPs and workflows any? Again, using a previous
job as an example, we have a scenario where people were writing news stories
all day long. Plus, a service syndicated news to the server every hour, a
good 20-30 stories each time. The site handles this w/o any problems.
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