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Posted by Peter Eby, MD at May 02. 2007

I am finding that there is some information that fits in more than one category.  For example, there could be facility information in the academic radiology location and also in the clinical radiology location.  I assume that it will be OK to put the info in both places.  No?


Re: information location

Posted by Cris Ewing at May 02. 2007

Peter,


The way I'd like things to work is that any single piece of information, such as facility information or a faculty biography, would exist in only one place.  Plone has ways of creating aggregates of data in other locations, check out the 'smart folder' data type, for example. 


So, we could create a page with facility information for some clinic, and keep it in the clinical site for that clinic, but choose to show it on a 'facilities' page in the academic section by putting certain keywords on it and then setting up a smart folder to aggregate all pages with those keywords.  It's a nifty trick. 


Basically, this idea will allow us to have only one 'real' copy of any piece of data, eliminating the chances that multiple copies might eventually get out of sync with each-other (and eliminating the need to edit stuff twice!)


Hope that helps,

Cris


Previously Peter Eby wrote:





I am finding that there is some information that fits in more than one category.  For example, there could be facility information in the academic radiology location and also in the clinical radiology location.  I assume that it will be OK to put the info in both places.  No?





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