Syncing catalogs with restrictions

[Former Member]

While syncing content catalog from staging to online, business needs the capability to lock some of components in online version so as to prevent it from getting overwritten by the staging version. Can anyone please suggest what would be the best way to achieve this?

[Former Member]

I second thoughts from Vinay that the staged catalog should be the master catalog while the online catalog is only a subset and read only replica of staged.

However what you want to do can be achieved while still conforming to the above principle. You have 2 approaches.

1. Implement locking on staged version (like the pages can be locked in cmc catalog). By doing this you can allow a super user to lock an item in staged version which means none of the employees can then edit this until this is unlocked.

2. Or the second approach would be to implement a work flow where edits in staged version go through an approval while the sync only picks up approved items for replication.

Hope this helps.

[Former Member]

this never be the case. Because whatever you change first you do the change in staging. Then you sync online. So staging and online should be identical. If you directly change something in online then your scenario may comes. But that is not the right way of doing it. If you change something directly online . then in future if you sync from staging to online you will see problems.

[Former Member]

Thanks for the suggestions. we need to support multiple regions, we have global catalog and we have region specific catalogs. Each region will have lot of common stuff (similar to global), but some of the contents might be specific to regions. I dont want those to get overwritten from Global.

[Former Member]

In that case you should exclude those non-common stuff from the sync.