Has anyone done this?
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A master corporate site with smaller connected dealer sites. The corporate site should control product data and feed it into the dealers sites. The dealers can edit their own news areas etc.
The other thing is that the product area should be structured with master/detail pages.
This wouldn't be possible with individual pages because of the number of pages.
Anyone done this?
:)
The other thing is that the product area should be structured with master/detail pages.
This wouldn't be possible with individual pages because of the number of pages.
Anyone done this?
:)
What about doing it through an RSS feed?
err dunno?
The more I think about this the more it looks like a custom job. It might be as easy as trying to make C5 do something it's probably not made to do.
any thoughts?
The more I think about this the more it looks like a custom job. It might be as easy as trying to make C5 do something it's probably not made to do.
any thoughts?
Looks like this is a multi-site job. Can I have separate domains for each sub site?
There is an addon in concrete5 marketplace "Domain Mapper" for multi-domain usage:
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/domain_mapper/...
http://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/domain_mapper/...
You can have as many subdomains as you want, assuming your host has no problem with it. If the site is going to be on a dedicated server, I can't see any reason why the number of subdomains would be a problem.
You can create a feed for pretty much anything. There is an add-on available in marketplace for RSS feedshttp://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/rss-feed-manager/... Since you want to disseminate the same information through multiple sites this seems to be the most effecient way of doing it.
The domain mapper also seems like a smart move if you are going to have multiple domains
You can create a feed for pretty much anything. There is an add-on available in marketplace for RSS feedshttp://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/rss-feed-manager/... Since you want to disseminate the same information through multiple sites this seems to be the most effecient way of doing it.
The domain mapper also seems like a smart move if you are going to have multiple domains
OK; so I want a corporate site that has all the product data presented in the usual way Product areas listed by images which are linked to the list of products in each area and each product them links to a detail page. The layout will be as the corporate site too Standard master detail stuff. I can see how the RSS feed might work with news elements but it wont be requested data, the dealers wont know this feed is embedded in their site. But not sure how the MD process will work?
Do you need to be able to do ecommerce or is the product data for internal purposes? If it is for internal purposes only you can still populate it with an RSS, when something changes it will update the other sites. If you are using it in association with ecommerce, then you'd need to get the ecommerce add-onhttp://www.concrete5.org/marketplace/addons/ecommerce/... I don't know if you would need more then once license or not (I assume you would). I haven't tried the eCommerce add-on, however you should still be able to populate the information from the master site with RSS. I think if each of your product areas had its own feed it would be the best. It is possible to have the reader populate the page on load without it being directly requested, so when the link to the product type was requested the rss would load. It is also possible to create the feed from a SQL query. The best way for you might be to have a cron run at set time intervals, save the feed to your own database, then when the feed is requested on the local dealer sites it is being called directly from the db associated with him. That should hopefully help the server load on the master site.
