Dynamic Creation of Category and DCR-Type for a DCR-Datum

Carl Artis

In our setup, we have multiple sites, deployed to the same LS runtime, We reuse components across sites, and style them differently, approx 10 sites.

Using a two sites example.
The sites are in different branches , and use different folder names for storing DCRs to avoid collisions.

i.e. templatedata/site1/Article/data , templatedata/site2/Article/data, templatedata/site2/Event/data

For the DCR-Datum, it requires the Category and DCT-Type in the component. The generator will not work for this as it will only work for SelectMulti or SelectSingle.

Is there any way to reuse the same component across my two sites and dynamically obtain the category and dcr-types for the drop down that the end user can configure?

For site1 it will display Category : site1 Type : Article

For site2 it will display Category : site2 Type : Article , Event

Any RTFM would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Carl

Rick Poulin

You should be able to specify multiple 'allowed' types for a DCR datum.. whether that causes more ruckus, I'm not sure so you'll have to try it.

I do kinda question your decision to build different categories like this, if the type is always going to be the same across all sites. You might have been better off with (or you might need to change your solution such that) a common datatype but different subfolders under 'data', and using permissions and/or training to ensure your users save the records in the proper folder name.

/I say it might've been better because there are certain situations where you may experience similar or worse pain as a result of this design

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