Bundling strategies
If you use Multisite Management to distribute content, you have three bundling strategies available when creating a bundle. The selected bundling strategy defines whether or which additional elements related to the selected element are automatically added to the bundle.
You can choose between the following three bundling strategies:
- None: No additional elements are added to the bundle.
- Include content references: Only relevant content-related elements are automatically added to the bundle.
- Include outgoing references: All referenced elements, both content-related and technical, are automatically added to the bundle.
Below the three strategies are explained based on a simple use case.
A Simple Use Case
The starting point of the example illustrating the three bundling strategies is a simple project. The project consists of a single page. A page reference ("Page Ref") links to the page in the navigation. The page is based on a page template ("Page Template"). On the page itself, a dataset is referenced. The dataset is based on a schema and a table template. The schema defines the underlying data structure of the table, while the table template specifies how editors can interact with the dataset. In the dataset, a medium, for example, an image, is referenced.
Bundling Strategy: None
If the page reference is added to a bundle and the bundling strategy is selected as None, no additional elements will be added to the bundle. The content of the bundle consists solely of the page reference.
If you want to include additional referenced elements, you have to manually add them to the bundle via Related Elements.
Bundling Strategy: Include content references
If the page reference is added to a bundle and the bundling strategy Include content references is selected, then all referenced content-related elements are automatically added to the bundle. In this example, the following elements are automatically added in addition to the selected page reference: page, dataset, and medium.
Bundling Strategy: Include outgoing references
When the page reference is added to a bundle and the bundling strategy Include outgoing references is selected, all referenced elements are automatically added to the bundle - this includes both content-related and technical elements. In this example, when transporting the page reference and using the strategy Include outgoing references, the following elements are automatically added to the bundle: page, page template (technical element), dataset, schema (technical element), table template (technical element), and medium.
Bundling Strategy: None
If you use the Bundling Strategy None, no referenced elements will be added to the bundle. This strategy should be used when you want to transport individual elements. Alternatively, you can manually add referenced elements to the bundle via Related Elements to create a customized bundle.
Bundling Strategy: Include content references
The bundling strategy Include content references automatically adds referenced content-related elements to the bundle. The elements added depend on the element type. Additionally, references are resolved recursively, meaning that references to references are also included. Which references are followed recursively depends on the element type.
The following table describes which referenced elements depending on the source element are directly included in the bundle and which elements are followed recursively.
| Source element | Referenced elements added to bundle | Referenced elements followed recursively |
|---|---|---|
| Page reference | Page, medium, dataset | Page |
| Page | Page reference, page, medium, dataset | Medium, dataset |
| Section | Page reference, page, medium, dataset | Medium, dataset |
| Section reference | Page reference, page, Medium, dataset | Medium, dataset |
| Dataset | Page reference, page, medium, dataset | |
| Medium | Page, medium, dataset |
Example
The source element is a page that references a page reference and a medium. When this page is added to a bundle with the bundling strategy Include content references, the following occurs:
- The page reference and the medium are added to the bundle.
- The page reference is not followed recursively.
- The medium is followed recursively, and the referenced elements are considered.
- If the references of the medium are of type "page," "medium," or "record," they are also added to the bundle.
Bundling Strategy: Include outgoing references
The bundling strategy "Include outgoing references" recursively adds all referenced technical and content-related elements starting from the source element to a bundle. This means that templates from the template store are also transported. This strategy should only be used for self-contained project parts, e.g., new campaigns that were created based on templates specifically designed for this purpose, or landing pages that exist separately from the rest of the project.
Example
The starting point is a page reference that points to an event page. The page is based on a page template that has been specifically created for this event page. On the page, a paragraph and a medium within the paragraph are referenced. Using the strategy Include outgoing references, the content-related references to the page, paragraph, and medium, as well as the technical references to the page template and paragraph template, are included.