The Aviva Stadium Dublin, 21-22 November 2013

As promised last at t44u 2012…

Preview & Publish Improvements

• Incremental

• Improved caching

• More efficient coding practices

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• Not all automatic

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• Who knows about the Cache Handler?

• May be available at SiteManager?ctfn=cache

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• The Cache Handler enables elements within Content Types to be “pre-cached”

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• A Top Content navigation object shows the 5 latest news articles ordered by a date element within the Content

• Keyword Search Content navigation object finds related news articles, based on a keywords element within the Content

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• How does it do this?

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• It loads each piece of Content from the database to check the Date or Keywords

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• What if you’ve an archive of 1,000 news articles?

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• You wait…

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• …unless the Date or Keywords are “pre-cached”

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• This was only the case with certain Navigation Objects (Keyword Search Content, Top Content)

• Since version 7.4 of TERMINALFOUR Site Manager, this is now extended to all areas of the publish engine

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Preview & Publish Improvements

• Content is ONLY loaded from the database IF the requested elements aren’t pre-cached

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Previous Transfer Mechanism

• Transfer was a two-step process

• Generate / check file hashes

• Upload modified files

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Previous Transfer Mechanism

• Shortcomings

• It was a two-step process

• Subsequent publish could alter files that were flagged for upload, but not yet uploaded

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Transfer Improvements

• Single Step Process

• Transfer “Listens” during publish for any changed (added, modified, deleted) files

• It copies these changed files into a separate area

• This is what we call a changeset

• Changesets remove Publish/Transfer synchronization issues

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Transfer (Dis)Improvements

• Changesets

• Only deleted when transfer completed (including deletion of “old” files)

• This can result in excessive disk space being used

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Transfer Improvements

• Changesets

• Disk space usage will be improved in 7.4.0004

• Wayne “is on the case”

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