Displaying Designs on assets in review listings - possible?

(Douglas (@finnatic at @waikato)) #1

We've recently been updating sites to a newer design, and while simple sites with a single customisation applied are fairly straight forward, complicated sites with multiple customisations (changing in some cases for second or third level assets) can be trickier.

 

An easy way to review the sites before, during and after the design changeover would be if I could point an asset listing at the sites and have it list each page (etc) with the design information alongside.

 

Is design information for an asset available via the asset attributes keyword or any other keyword?  I've had a look through the manuals but couldn't see anything.

(Nic Hubbard) #2

No, there isn't any way to access this in an asset listing. You could use the SOAP Server which allows you to list the design for asset asset, or use the Usage screen of the Design itself.

(Douglas (@finnatic at @waikato)) #3

That's a pity.  A simple asset listing is so much easier to setup and would be a quick and easy way to highlight designs that are or aren't being used.

(Bart Banda) #4

If you are just looking to see which design customisations are used, doesn't the Usage screen on the customisation give you this information?

(Nic Hubbard) #5

If you are just looking to see which design customisations are used, doesn't the Usage screen on the customisation give you this information?

 

I think we was wanting a more efficient way to view what designs are used for different assets in an Asset Listing. So that you could just browse down a list rather than visiting the Usage screen.

(Douglas (@finnatic at @waikato)) #6

If you are just looking to see which design customisations are used, doesn't the Usage screen on the customisation give you this information?

 

For an individual asset, or a small collection (say <30) then using the usage screen is not a problem.

 

I'm working on a site however, for which there's ~3800 public URLs and a similar number of assets.  Trying to map out the existing designs and customisations applied to identify what needs to be setup in a new design is therefore a bit more complicated.

(Joel Porgand) #7

if you are able to connect to the matrix database you can run a query to find design links:

select * from sq_ast_lnk where value = 'design::system::frontend'

Then make your query fancier as required. 

(Douglas (@finnatic at @waikato)) #8

A footnote for anyone looking for something similar to my original request - a structured asset report (http://manuals.matrix.squizsuite.net/reports/chapters/structured-asset-report) set to output designs achieves what I was thinking of.