We have a basic structure for our sites where we create workareas based on the business units with the individual sites within that workarea. Almost all of our templates and DCR files are shared between the multiple business units and this will at some point become a versioning issue with the way we have the site structured. He is an example:
default/main
-- Intranet (<-- this is where the shared content lives)
-- Common
-- BusinessUnit1
-- Staging
-- Workarea
-- templatedata
-- components
-- department
-- template1
-- template2
-- template3
-- BusinessUnit2
-- Staging
-- Workarea
-- templatedata
-- components
-- department
-- template1
-- template2
-- template3
-- Internet
In the above example template1, template2, and template3 are all the same TPL and DCR. We have a development branch where we make our modifications, but when we are done we need to push the change to every folder that contains the file(s). Is there a way to set the config to look at the Common (i.e shared content) folder to get the files while maintaining the individual data folders in each department workarea?
I am starting to think that is process may have to go into a workflow, but before I go over my elbow to get to my ear I wanted to get the input here first. The manuals do not do the best job of outlining the pathing limitations of templating (but, if I missed the key information please let me know where to get it).
