Kind of "public_override" and "admin_override"

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Nicolas Steinmetz

Tuesday 07 September 2010 1:18:26 am

For the context : In one single instance of eZ Publish (in fact there are four for technical, legal and timezone reasons), we host around 25 town websites (with 1 main siteaccess + 1 admin + 0 to n for translations if any).

So far, settings are versionned in SVN and I have 3 structures (one for each environement : UAT / Preprod / Prod). So nothing new here I guess for most of you :-)

My issue is that, for each new release, I have to update settings for each town. I use the /settings/override/* sometimes but I can't use it always as we may have some conflicts between frontend/backend siteaccess.

So I was thinking about a kind of "public_override" and "admin_override".

What do you think about ?

Matthieu Sévère

Tuesday 07 September 2010 1:36:45 am

This kind of override would be very nice, there is discussion on this on the issue tracker but I can't find back the issue, if someone remenber...

Currently for this problem I use the ActiveAccessExtension settings which allows you to load an extension for a specific site access. Thus, I can load one extension for front end siteaccess and another one for backend extension and I put my override and front end settings there.

Cheers

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Nicolas Steinmetz

Tuesday 07 September 2010 1:51:37 am

Thanks Matthieu for your reply,

If I understand well, for a given town :

On my main public siteaccess :

  • I load the generic "frontend" extension which contains generic settings
  • In my siteaccess, I can override the generic settings from my "frontend" extension

On my secondary siteaccess (for translation purpose) :

  • I load the generic "frontend" extension which contains generic settings
  • In my siteaccess, I can override the generic settings from my "frontend" extension

On my admin siteaccess :

  • I load the generic "backend" extension which contains generic settings
  • In my siteaccess, I can override the generic settings from my "backend" extension

So if I undertand well, it leads to something like settings/override/* > settings/siteaccess/<town>/* > extension/<my extension>/settings/* ?

It reminds me that sometimes there were troubles with settings within extensions. Is it now safe/solved (we use 4.0.6 so far, should use 4.3 by the end of the year).

Matthieu Sévère

Tuesday 07 September 2010 2:07:32 am

Yes, but be carefull with loading order and override of ini file you should have a look at this issue : http://issues.ez.no/13382

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André R.

Tuesday 07 September 2010 3:03:13 am

With ActiveAccessExtension this should work in all versions, it's been cleanedup slightly in 4.4 but the basics are the same, the order is:

settings/
ActiveAccessExtension
siteaccess
ActiveExtension
settings/override/

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Matthieu Sévère

Tuesday 07 September 2010 4:26:33 am

"

With ActiveAccessExtension this should work in all versions, it's been cleanedup slightly in 4.4 but the basics are the same, the order is:

settings/
ActiveAccessExtension
siteaccess
ActiveExtension
settings/override/

"

By the way, what has been done in 4.4 around ini : use of eZ Components for ini management ?

Is there any plan to change loading order in futur release ?

Thanks for your heads up André

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Nicolas Steinmetz

Wednesday 08 September 2010 1:40:01 am

Solved on a theorical point of view - Let's now see how to implement it for real in my context.

Jean Voye

Wednesday 08 September 2010 1:44:34 am

"

Solved on a theorical point of view - Let's now see how to implement it for real in my context.

"

Let us know how this goes Nicolas.

Cheers !

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