Re: FC7 CMS Plugin

Hi Chris,

On 27 February 2014 09:58, Chris Kent <[email protected]> wrote:

> Looking through Farcry V7 RC and Chelsea Boots, I see 2 content types -
> dmEventListing and dmNewsListing in the FarCry cms plugin - these appear to
> be very simple types available in the site tree that allow adding news or
> events listing pages.
>
> In the past I would place a news/event listing rule within a container on
> the required page and these content types have very similar properties to
> the news/event publishing rules.
>
> What is the reason behind using these content types in preference to
> publishing rules.
>
> If you have many different content types within your project, this new
> approach could lead to more options that editors have within the site tree
> maintenance when usually a very high percentage of site tree content pages
> will be html pages
> e.g.
> - old way, when adding content under a nav node there would usually be
> options to select html page, includes/webskins or links
> - FarCry 7 cms plugin adds 3 more options ( and more if this approach is
> used for new project specific content types
>
> The main benefit that I can see is that more of the site set up is within
> the webtop and not on the front end.
>

Containers (and rules) are expensive in terms of performance.  They are
also difficult for many non-technical clients to manage.

Having a dedicated content type in the tree for managing the listing has
the following benefits:

- anecdotally easier for contributors to understand
- much better performance than an HTML page with multiple containers
- great deal of flexibility in terms of how the page is rendered; ie. the
content type can have its own dedicated page level templates for rendering

For simple content listings of a single content type the benefits are less
pronounced.  However, if you had a "landing page" content type that
combined multiple content types together, and provided a variety of theme
specific design options the benefits start to become very obvious.  For
example, its not uncommon for folks to build home pages with several grid
changes (column/row variations) and defining many container regions to
provide configuration options for changing the behaviour of the landing
page. A simple example of this is the "Landing Page" content type in the
Chelsea sample project -- it provides easy management of carousel and
promos without a single container.

Its worth nothing that this is not a change in framework functionality,
just in the approach that we use internally for projects.  We now offer
examples of both approaches (containers and dedicated in tree content
listing types) in the FarCry CMS plugin and sample application.

Hope that helps,

GB

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