Thursday, October 9, 2014

Blueprint Scenarios. Websites offering products in different continents IV

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.

This post continues the previous articles article1, article2, article3 analyzing additional requirements, so is recommended to have a look at those first.

Scenario
Websites offering different products per continent

Requirements
A company that manufactures products in different continents wants to design a blueprint model for maintain all the websites.


In the current analysis session, the following requirements are captured.

All the layout for all the countries is the same, except for the products, which will have their own templates. Although templates for the products per continent are different, layout still will refer to the same css, showing a very similar experience across the different countries. 

Certain countries in Europe must be able to produce their own templates based on different schemas that those identified at the continent level, as is the case for France now.


Solution 
The following diagram represents the changes required in the blueprint.

The additional publications are colored in blue and are the publications used for create the design publications.


The following diagram shows a more detail view of the design layer


"2000 Master Design" is used for create the templates that are used across all the continents.
Inherits from the publication "1000 Schema Master".


"3001 Africa Design" is used for create the templates related to the African Products.
Inherits from the publication "2000 Master Design" and "2001 Africa Schemas".



"3002 America Design" is used for create the templates related to the American Products
Inherits from the publication "2000 Master Design" and "2001 America Schemas".



"3003 Europe Design" is used for create the templates  related to the European Products.
Inherits from the publication "2000 Master Design" and "2001 Europe Schemas".


"4003 France Design" is used for create the templates  related to the Country specific France Products.
Inherits from the publication "3000 Europe Design" and "3001 France Schemas".


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