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How many files can RSD accommodate in one single project?
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The current version of RSD can handle 125 pages.
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Thanks, I've doing a big index of published articles and need to know when to break the project into sub-projects.
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Yeah well, we're still hoping for RSD to get to a 'unlimited page' level and skip the work-arounds ...
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rvanheukelum wrote:
Yeah well, we're still hoping for RSD to get to a 'unlimited page' level and skip the work-arounds ...


Although RSD will never come to an truly "unlimited" page count as you know there is no such thing, but I do hope they open it up a lot more, I think up to a 1000 pages would be a good starting place.

That being said I do notice that the larger the website is the longer it takes to compile and save. That is probably the issue that is slowing down the process to get to the higher page counts.
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Steve wrote:
rvanheukelum wrote:
Yeah well, we're still hoping for RSD to get to a 'unlimited page' level and skip the work-arounds ...


Although RSD will never come to an truly "unlimited" page count as you know there is no such thing, but I do hope they open it up a lot more, I think up to a 1000 pages would be a good starting place.

That being said I do notice that the larger the website is the longer it takes to compile and save. That is probably the issue that is slowing down the process to get to the higher page counts.


Technically, I don't think all pages need to be compiled and saved every time a change is made. But maybe RSD was not designed to keep track of changes in individual pages and only recompile and save changed pages.
Why fill RSD project files with so many pages that probably have the same structure and differ only in respect to the content part?

That's why Content Management Systems and databases were invented.
RSD is not meant to be a CMS, I think.
I have built quite a lot of websites with hundreds of pages each, based on maybe 3, 4, 5 RSD pages serving as templates.
The CMS fills in the predefined content blocks and the RSD project files can easily be managed.
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rvanheukelum wrote:
Yeah well, we're still hoping for RSD to get to a 'unlimited page' level and skip the work-arounds ...


Hello,

I've been looking for more information about a workaround. Would you mind detailing out this workaround, please?


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John Almonte wrote:
rvanheukelum wrote:
Yeah well, we're still hoping for RSD to get to a 'unlimited page' level and skip the work-arounds ...


Hello,

I've been looking for more information about a workaround. Would you mind detailing out this workaround, please?


-John

I gave you a brief if complicated workaround in your post under RLM I think that depending on your initial site size No of pages required RSD wil do it, for the immediate future,, then if you require more pages then you can make another and bring it into your original via resources.

However as Steve has pointed out RSD becomes sluggish to say the least when you start to get a lot of pages.
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Hi John,

A couple of page limits work-around options that I have employed.

Large page count sites often have logical points of segmentation. Might be geo (states, country, counties), might be topical (jazz, blues, rock, rap), might be product type.

I've started running into some resource running low issues before hitting the page count barrier - a site with long pages containing many local resource links can start bogging down fairly noticeably with a dozen or so pages within RSD.

My work-around has been to segment the site into multiple projects that get hosted in their own folders. This avoids resource and style naming conflicts along and sidesteps having ridiculously large main.css files.

Where I need the pages of two project files (for whatever reason) to reside in a common folder - I export the two projects and pick one of them (usually the smaller of the two) to be the 'sub-project'. On the sub-project side, I rename main.css to alt-main.css and edit the exported html page links from pointing to css/main.css to /css/alt-main.css.

To avoid image name collisions, I make sure to import every graphic file used in the 'sub-protect' into the 'main project', I upload the renamed css file (alt-main.css) to the host css/ folder but I do NOT upload the contents of the other folders to the host site. I'm sure there are some gotcha's that could happen but assuming you are working from a common framework and the same RSD version etc. this can be a viable option.

For sites containing a lot of data driven content - I build some container pages - giving the elements programming friendly id's so that I can loop through an array retrieved from a data source and assign the array contents to a sequentially addressable set of elements using AJAX.

Example of what I am describing - maybe you have a couple dozen products but some of the products are only available in certain states. You could build a static page for each product but as more products are added and availability changes, that quickly becomes a monster to maintain.

So what I might do is have a product page - where a pair of drop down boxes allows you to select a product category and your state- once you make those selections, AJAX code then retrieves the product list for that category and state availability and populates a product list that might be a 20 row sub-grid each of which has display=none when the page loads. As the code steps through the array retrieved, it populates the appropriate element(s) for the row by id and sets the row display=block (or whatever is appropriate) until it reaches the end of the array and then it continues to the end of the row count by setting the display=none for the empty rows. If you have 10 products, you now have 10 rows displayed. If you change category to one that has 5 products, the code runs again on the change and takes the newly retrieved array and retraces the same steps - showing you only 5 rows because the rest get hidden by the code. Change state - again the query returns a new array and loads the new data set.

To present this in static pages would be ridiculous - but by using AJAX, you can reduce it to a single page template. Now in a real world situation you might have certain categories that require different templates

Hope this gives you some ideas to work with.

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John Almonte wrote:
rvanheukelum wrote:
Yeah well, we're still hoping for RSD to get to a 'unlimited page' level and skip the work-arounds ...


Hello,

I've been looking for more information about a workaround. Would you mind detailing out this workaround, please?


-John

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