Accessin DCR saved in teamsite (default ) branch.

Hi,

Can i access my DCRS saved in TeamSite (default/main/xyzbranch/...) default directory from within the LiveSite component.

The DCR component provides very limited browsing capability and i cannot go beyond the current workarea in Livesite content repository.

LiveSite claims that we can use existing DCRS but how is this possible. Am i missing something here?

Please reply.

Thanks
Harpreet

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Shazzer

I would also be interested in other ways to break out of the workarea that the user is in - I found the same thing, although in our case this is ok.

We have multiple branches, each with their own workarea and livesite "site", and the components need to use dcrs from each individual workarea to get the correct output on a branch-by-branch basis. However, I can certainly see the benefit and the need to be able to navigate out of the workarea where the livesite site is present - say, to use a central DCR that only ever exists in a main or central branch. Does anyone else have a method of acheiving this? If not, is this something that can be looked into for future releases?

wscott

There's currently no way to access resources from other branches because they are not guaranteed to get deployed to the same runtime server. The root of the runtime web server equates to the root of the branch.

You could set up workflows to deploy content from multiple branches to the same runtime server, although you will need to be careful that no file exists in both branches. This will cause difficulty for preview of pages and sites, because the preview system only considers the current branch/workarea.