Create complex page - best way to go?

(Steve Jordan) #1

Hi all,


We have a page creation situation and we're not sure which way to go as a solution, I would appreciate your thoughts on the best way to get your average editor to create/edit this kind of page.



The setup is as follows:

A standard page with metadata schema x applied, under which are type 2 linked standard pages with metadata schema y applied, and type 2 linked standard pages with metadata schema z applied.



Simple diagram:

[font="Courier New"]main page (schema x)

  • sub page 1 (schema y)
  • sub page 2 (schema y)
  • sub page 3 (schema y)
  • sub page 4 (schema z)
  • sub page 5 (schema z)
  • sub page 6 (schema z)

    [/font]



    Ideally a user would go to a single editing interface and be able to manipulate (including creation of further sub pages) the metadata on all of the pages in the diagram.



    The options as we see them are:

    [list=1]
  • EES + plugin which brings the metadata fields of sub pages into the content/metadata tab of main page and adds buttons to create further sub pages
    [*]Asset Builder
    [*]other custom app that uses SOAP or JS API
    [*]backend access (with lots of training)


    Which approach would be best?
    Have we missed any options?

    Thanks.

    Steve
    • (Anthony Barnes) #2

    You could setup a 'template' of these assets and export them to xml using the scripts in the Matrix scripts directory. You could then use the JS API function to import the pre-made 'template' of assets when the user wants to create a new set (using EES as your framework).