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Hi all.<br>
<br>
I am trying to find a way to deploy content from one site to another,
and could use some input from those that have done this before as to
the best way to proceed.<br>
<br>
We have a master site that contains content (topical videos, in this
case), organized by taxonomy. We have two (and potentially more)
subsites which we want to 'inherit' nodes from a certain taxonomy term
on the master site.<br>
<br>
There are two specific requirements needed for this: <br>
<br>
<ol>
<li>The procedure must be automatic - that is, if a video node is
assigned a taxonomy term for a given subsite, it will be automatically
pushed or pulled to the new site within a reasonable amount of time
(ie, by the end of the next cron run or something like that).</li>
<li>If a video is removed from a subsite taxonomy term, it should be
removed from the subsite.</li>
<li>If a node is updated on the master site, the updated copy needs
to be sent to the subsites.</li>
</ol>
<br>
I've looked at a few different methods of doing this, and here are my
thoughts:<br>
<br>
<ol>
<li><b>Deploy</b> - <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupal.org/project/deploy">http://drupal.org/project/deploy</a> - Looks like an
excellent module, but we don't want to have to manually push each and
every video to the proper client sites. Looks perfect for other content
staging uses though.</li>
<li><b>Content Distribution</b> -
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://drupal.org/project/content_distribution">http://drupal.org/project/content_distribution</a> - This looks like it
gets closer to what we need in that items added to a Nodequeue are
automatically sent to the subsites. However, it doesn't seem to handle
the removal case stated above. Also, I am not sure how it handles the
update case.</li>
</ol>
I am not opposed to creating a custom solution using Services, but
before reinventing the wheel, I want to make double sure that there
isn't something already out there that gets me closer.<br>
<br>
Thanks for any input / advice!<br>
<br>
Brian<br>
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