Handling time-sensitive contents in livesite

Hendrik2

Hi Experts,

 

Env: 7.4.1 (Unix)

 

We have existing site still in .html files and are revamping to livesite pages..

 

Currently, the .html files are deployed by OD base to an intermediate staging server, with a scheduled timestamp of when the files are supposed to go live.. There is a cron job/script that runs periodically to pick the files when the time is up and then deploy it to the public webserver..

 

This approach existed to handle time-sensitive content, for e.g a promotion to show only on Saturday and then immediately pulled down / changed on Sunday. The changes could be banners, text or HTML contents..

 

The scheduling is done via the workflow, submitted to STAGING and deployed to the intermediate server, waiting to go live..

 

While authors have completed the scheduling of contents for Saturday, they can continue to work on the files in the WORKAREA for contents going live on Sunday. This is possible because .html files for Saturday are already copied over to the intermediate server.

 

In essence, this allows authors to work on the same files and schedule two different versions of content to go live on both days, in advance..

 

Also, with this approach, reviewer of the workflow has the ability to preview 'what the contents will look like on Saturday plus Sunday'.

 

The question is, is there a way we can replicate the similar approach for livesite pages?? AFAIK, we also have DB records, lscs contents and LS .cache files that go along with the PLC deployment, and dont think we can store the DB records somewhere and then deploy to DB when the time is up. This will mean trying to re-create the datadeploy functions.

 

Thanks.

nipper

Same idea, totally different implementation

 

1 approach is use a LSDS page that reads LSCS for data. The LSCS query could be something like give me all DCRs within this date range, that apply to this specific page.  If mulitple DCRs are applicible, you choose based on priority or most recent.

 

A couple of points, with SP/LS you do not use mulitple workareas, only a single workarea, so these typically are different DCRs.   LSCS will store 2 active DCR versions at the same time (different contenxt) and you might be able to use that, though I have never tried.

 

BTW, this is how Safeway.com uses LSCS/LSDS.

 

You can also use a tool like SOLR to do this instead of LSCS.