Introduction
The purpose of this post is to solve a Blueprint design exercise based on some specific requirements.
The intended audience for this article are individuals that want to gain knowledge of how to analyze and design using SDL Tridion Blueprint Principles.
In this exercise an important concept in design is introduced, which is a country agnostic layer.
Scenario
Websites created for different countries offering content in different languages
Requirements
A company wants to design a blueprint model for produce similar websites for different countries.
Each website will be showing content in the different official languages of the country.
Example: Canada will require two websites, one in English and one in French.
Company is trying to maximize the reuse of translated content and allow content translated to a specific language to be reused by other countries where that language is spoken, however, that content could be localized and the original translation could be adapted or additional content specific to the country could be added.
Current websites required are US (English), Canada (English, French) and France (French)
Pages must be centralized for all countries, but additional pages could be added per country if required.
The Websites of the same country in different languages must follow the same structure.
Solution
This scenario has requirements related to content and content translation reuse, but still allow flexibility for any country to add specific content and pages.
The following diagram represents the blueprint structure.
Each box represents a Publication and the red arrows show the inheritance between publications
0000 Empty Parent Publication is the Scalability Level, is left empty
1000 Schema Master Publication is used for create the Schemas and Categories
2000 Design Master Publication is used for create the design artifacts
2000 Content Master (LN-EN) Publication is used for create the Content Master (English), which contains the content that is available for all websites. As is common content, must be country agnostic, content is not for an specific country.
3000 Content Master (LN-FR) Publication is used for translate the common content from English to French. This translated content will be used for produce any website where content is delivered in French Language.
3000 Master Structure Publication is used for maintain the global structure of the sites.
4001 Content (CO-US-EN) Publication is used for maintain the content for US in English
Inherits from the publication "2000 Content Master (LN-EN)"
4002 Content (CO-CA-EN) Publication is used for maintain the content for Canada in English
Inherits from the publication "2000 Content Master (LN-EN)"
5001 Content (CO-CA-FR) Publication is used for maintain the content for Canada in French
Is inheriting from the "3000 Content Master (LN-FR) Publication" and also from
"4001 Content (CO-US-EN) Publication " so any content created for Canada only has to be created
in English and translate to French in this publication
5001 Content (CO-FR-FR) Publication is used for maintain the content for France in French
Is inheriting also from the "3000 Content Master (LN-FR) Publication", so is reusing the translated content into French Language
The Level 600X represents the websites produced with this blueprint model
6001 www (CO-US-EN) Publication represents the website for US in English Language
Inherits from the "4001 Content (CO-US-EN) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure Publication"
6002 www (CO-CA-EN) Publication represents the website for Canada in English Language
Inherits from the "4001 Content (CO-CA-EN) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure Publication"
6003 www (CO-CA-FR) Publication represents the website for Canada in French Language
Inherits from the "5001 Content (CO-CA-FR) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure
Publication"
6004 www (CO-FR-FR) Publication represents the website for France in French Language
Inherits from the "5001 Content (CO-CA-FR) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure
Publication"
Appendix:
For the Canadian websites, In case that we require the French language website independent from the
English Language website (not at specified in the requirement), we could handle that following the
next diagram
In this case there is no dependency between the Canadian website in English language and the
Canadian website in French language
1000 Schema Master Publication is used for create the Schemas and Categories
2000 Design Master Publication is used for create the design artifacts
2000 Content Master (LN-EN) Publication is used for create the Content Master (English), which contains the content that is available for all websites. As is common content, must be country agnostic, content is not for an specific country.
3000 Content Master (LN-FR) Publication is used for translate the common content from English to French. This translated content will be used for produce any website where content is delivered in French Language.
3000 Master Structure Publication is used for maintain the global structure of the sites.
4001 Content (CO-US-EN) Publication is used for maintain the content for US in English
Inherits from the publication "2000 Content Master (LN-EN)"
4002 Content (CO-CA-EN) Publication is used for maintain the content for Canada in English
Inherits from the publication "2000 Content Master (LN-EN)"
5001 Content (CO-CA-FR) Publication is used for maintain the content for Canada in French
Is inheriting from the "3000 Content Master (LN-FR) Publication" and also from
"4001 Content (CO-US-EN) Publication " so any content created for Canada only has to be created
in English and translate to French in this publication
5001 Content (CO-FR-FR) Publication is used for maintain the content for France in French
Is inheriting also from the "3000 Content Master (LN-FR) Publication", so is reusing the translated content into French Language
The Level 600X represents the websites produced with this blueprint model
6001 www (CO-US-EN) Publication represents the website for US in English Language
Inherits from the "4001 Content (CO-US-EN) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure Publication"
6002 www (CO-CA-EN) Publication represents the website for Canada in English Language
Inherits from the "4001 Content (CO-CA-EN) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure Publication"
6003 www (CO-CA-FR) Publication represents the website for Canada in French Language
Inherits from the "5001 Content (CO-CA-FR) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure
Publication"
6004 www (CO-FR-FR) Publication represents the website for France in French Language
Inherits from the "5001 Content (CO-CA-FR) Publication" and "3000 Master Structure
Publication"
Appendix:
For the Canadian websites, In case that we require the French language website independent from the
English Language website (not at specified in the requirement), we could handle that following the
next diagram
In this case there is no dependency between the Canadian website in English language and the
Canadian website in French language
I've been seeing and using the term "country-agnostic" as well in BluePrint designs, which isn't necessarily a new idea (I've also heard of "master" languages or "Queen's" versions). Technically, I think country-agnostic means agnostic to places where the language is a secondary language. ;-)
ReplyDeleteThe interesting thing is seeing online written languages evolve. I'm seeing "formal" and "informal" versions of Spanish for the US market and a general "Latin American" Spanish in more US-based BluePrints. A few years ago, it seemed many customers just had (US) English, maybe Spanish, and Chinese (someday). It's great seeing more companies with a global vision, which includes deciding on which specific versions of languages to support. :-)