Multi-Country SmartEdit - Shared Content Slot

[stephan_zacharias1987]

Hi,

I am currently working with the new multi country SmartEdit capabilities. I do have the following Catalog Structure: - MasterContentCatalog - EUContentCatalog (supercatalog is MasterContentCatalog) - USContentCatalog (supercatalog is MasterContentCatalog)

For matter of simplicity, assume that all ContentSlots, Pages and Templates are stored in the MasterContentCatalog. On the top left corner I do have a Logo that is placed in a Shared Content Slot (Slot of a template). Now I want to change the logo for all pages that relate to the template, but only for the USContentCatalog. Currently I do not find any solution to do it. The only thing I am able to find is the ability to change Page Content Slots, but not Template Content Slots.

Does anyone have a solution for that? Or is it just not supported right now?

Kind regards, Stephan

[former_member634920 · Accepted solution]

Hello,

It is possible to override Shared Content Slot in any Child Content Catalog using undocumented feature of the `ContentSlot` and `CMSPageService`.

You have to specify `originalSlot` of the `ContentSlot` which will be used by `CMSPageService.getSortedMultiCountryContentSlots(..)`.

Take a note that:

• `ContentSlot.originalSlot` should point to Online version of the parent Content Slot.
• `ContentSlot.uid` must be unique in the MultiCountry catalog hierarchy, otherwise you may face editing/rendering issues in the SmartEdit. I'd suggest to add catalog-unique prefix/suffix

Sample impex for overriding shared Footer Slot:

UPDATE GenericItem[processor = de.hybris.platform.commerceservices.impex.impl.ConfigPropertyImportProcessor]; pk[unique = true]

$contentCatalog = $config-eu.content.catalog
$contentCV = catalogVersion(CatalogVersion.catalog(Catalog.id[default = $contentCatalog]), CatalogVersion.version[default = Staged])[default = $contentCatalog:Staged]
$contentCVOnline = catalogVersion(CatalogVersion.catalog(Catalog.id[default = $contentCatalog]), CatalogVersion.version[default = Online])[default = $contentCatalog:Online]

$contentCatalogCountry = $config-eu.it.content.catalog
$contentCVCountry = catalogVersion(CatalogVersion.catalog(Catalog.id[default = $contentCatalogCountry]), CatalogVersion.version[default = Staged])[default = $contentCatalogCountry:Staged]

INSERT_UPDATE ContentSlot; uid[unique = true]; name        ; active; originalSlot(uid, $contentCVOnline)[unique = true]; $contentCVCountry[unique = true]
                         ; FooterSlot-EU_it        ; Footer Slot ; true  ; FooterSlot                                        ;

Regards,

Mykhailo Lytvyn