Keep track of images and links in a datafile

Question

Hi,
I have set up replication between my source and destination server. How do images and contents linked in a webpage section replicate?
I think images and content reffred should be replicated seperately, as a datafile doesnot have a refrence telling images reffered should be moved.
Now the question is how to move Images and contents that are linked in the webpage along with datafiles.
One solution is to use SiteStudio section replication. If we use that how to make sure this goes through a work flow and then gets replicated?
your inputs willl be usefull

Answer 1

This seems somewhat like an architecture question. Let's assume you have two servers (I'll call them staging and production). You have set the Site Studio Migration Utility to automatically replicate content associated with your site from staging to production. Now in our example, on staging there is a datafile with various images and links to native content that users regularly update. You have a workflow layer applied to all datafiles of your site so that content isn't migrated into production until it has been workflow approved. I'm assuming this is how you are set up (since this is a commonly recommended architecture).
Now back to the datafile. I'm assuming the images in the datafile (as well as any linked native content) have site specific metadata applied to them, so that the Site Studio Migration utility replicates them into production just like migrates other areas of your site. If that is the case, then it is the responsibility of the workflow approver to verify that all images (and document links) look right before approving the content for auto migration.
Unfortunately, you may run into a situation like the following... You have a page that lists sales figures every month, and uses an image to visualize those sales figures. You already have a datafile in production for February as well as the associated February graphic. You create an updated sales figure datafile for March, as well as an updated associated image for March. The image migrates into production automatically, before the updated datafile referencing the updated image clears workflow. Your February sales figure page could potentially have the March sales image inside of it. This is a potential problem since there is no concept of a "group approval" for all elements that make up the contents within a datafile. You could add a layer of workflow to all native content and images, but then you'd have to be fairly certain that you were synched up properly. You could also manually migrate, but I can see where this would not be ideal either. Unfortunately, there is no easy answer.