[opencms-dev] How to move content properlyI

[patrick]

I agree with Peter when he says:
> to be honest, I also wonder about the content addressing mechanism used
> by OpenCms. In my opinion, it is one of the main tasks of a CMS to take
> over the automated linking between content objects.

This is THE core functionality that a CMS product should offer.

It amazes me that this is not available for a respected project like OpenCMS.

Keep on the good work.

regards,

Patrick

On Saturday 30 April 2005 16:11, Peter Birchmeier wrote:
> Hi
>
> to be honest, I also wonder about the content addressing mechanism used
> by OpenCms. In my opinion, it is one of the main tasks of a CMS to take
> over the automated linking between content objects.
> I think there exist two ways to go:
>
> 1. Content objects (xml content, jsp/html pages, ..) are further
> addressed by its VFS file name. Whenever an object shall be
> renamed/moved, all other objects linking to the previous should be
> adapted. A good solution would be to store additional infos for each
> content object, infos containing a list of all objects linking to the
> specific one. Thus instead of starting a complete search over a wide
> range of objects to find all linking objects, only the objects in the
> list have to updated.
>
> 2. More complicated but more effective: content objects are only
> addressed by its id.
> Disadvantage: Building and maintaining JSP files manually is nasty since
> links (includes, ..) contain ids instead of comprehensible file names of
> objects.
> Advantage: objects can be renamed, moved, whatever you like to do with
> it. If there is enough support in automating the process of linking
> (e.g. inserting a link: OpenCms asks to chose a file (= object) and
> inserts its id), it is the way to go.
>
> kind regards, Peter
>
>
>
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