Question about Site Views

11 Jun '12, 11:39 PM
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I am not sure how should I structure my web site into siteviews. I have 2 distinct users of the website, each one requires log-in to access private areas of website. And there is one unregistered user. Should one siteview be created for each? Or In a siteview 3 different areas would be created? I am new to web ratio and I am confused about quite a few things.

 
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Site Views and Areas are both concepts used for grouping parts of the Web Model. Both of them can have protection defined independently, so you could technically say that a group of users can access a particular Area while another group cannot.

The key difference between Site Views and Areas is actually that the former are completely disjoint: you can't link across Site Views using a modelled WebML link, while you can do it across Areas. Is is common to have a Site View for the public ""front end"" site and another Site View for the ""bank end"" administartion area, since the two are usually completely separated.

As a rule of thumb I would create different Site Views when:

  • there will not be links across them,
  • they would provide substantially separated fronts to your application (like admin vs. public), and this requirement usually goes together with having two different user groups accessing them.

On the other end, go for Areas when:

  • there will be links across them,
  • you only need to group pages ""logically"", but not physically (like in the menu bar of a site).

   
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