Hi there!

We use some kind of content reuse. You could create a dialog where you can 
select the location of the content in the current site that you want to reuse.

This might be a frontend page, or just a page with a lot of content 
collections. Use the link type for selecting the pages the nice way. In the 
paragraph jsp of this dialog, use the loadPage tag to fetch the mathing 
contentNode in scope, and the includetemplate tag to display the content item 
(don't forget to unload the page :). 

You can specify this to your wishes all you want, for example, instead of only 
specifying the page, also select the content collection you want to use (may 
want to create a custom dialog template for that)...


Erik Alphenaar,
Neteffect Holding BV.
Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: woensdag 12 juli 2006 16:23
To: [email protected]
Subject: [magnolia-user] Content Reuse?


As we continue to check out Magnolia, it's occurred to me that I haven't
seen any way to reuse existing content.

For example, we have an "Online Services" section which is replicated across
80% of the pages in the University's website. While the contents of this
section are the same across all the various pages where it exists, they do
change from time to time.

While one can, of course, hard-code the necessary HTML into a template to
have this section appear whenever a template is used, one loses one of the
main advantages of managed content -- you have to make and deploy code
changes whenever you need a change to this section.

What seems a better approach would be to have some way of defining a
paragraph within Magnolia, and then using that same paragraph on multiple
pages. One could, for example, choose "New Paragraph" and have a paragraph
type that is merely a link to a paragraph that already exists elsewhere.

Has anybody done anything like this, or explored other approaches to reusing
content throughout one's system?

Thanks in advance for any ideas!

Sean


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