I know its possible to stop the caching of assets types by setting the period to say 0. But i was looking to see what peoples thoughts were on stopping the caching on individual assets (certain pages).
For example i have a Whats New asset that displays the content of standard pages (like a news panel) but if someone adds a new news item i have to clear the cache of the Whats New asset for it to display.
So do you think it would, at some point, be possible to stop caching on this particular asset. I have quite a few on our site that would benefit from this.
Unless this some how possible now?
Its not possible. And the irony is that the page you want to stop caching on, is the page that most needs to be cached for performance.
The real solution is to automatically clear the cache when a new asset is created (or made live) that would be listed. And, our new triggering system in v3.6 is the basis for this type of functionality.
(Note to developers: A "Clear Cache" trigger action would be sweet).
No it wouldnt. Clearing the cache takes time. We actually need to add more "caching" to the caching system. The last thing people want is for a cache hipo to come up whenever they do anything. Clearing the cache needs to be made faster first.