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Shortcut to page Vs Fetch data from page

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Hi all,

You might know about the features in EPiServer that allow you to create a kind of 'virtual page', that doesn't really exist on its own, but rather shortcuts to, or fetches data from, another page in the site.

I'm talking about the options in the "Shortcut/External Link" tab, i.e.

"Shortcut to page in EPiServer", and

"Fetch data from page in EPiServer".

The former method, in a navigational sense takes you away from the area of the site structure you were in, to where the other page exists.

The latter works in the other direction - you stay in the same area of the site, and the data is 'fetched' from another area in the site structure, and brought back to where you are. This second method allows you to have mulitple copies of the same page in different areas of the site, and you only have to update the data once if it needs to be changed. These pages can even have different names, which is handy if, for example, you have two departments that refer to the same entity by a different name.

My question is: can anyone give examples of other real-life scenarios where these features have come in handy? I'm going to give training in an EPiServer solution we have built, and I need good examples to use when explaining these features Smile

I'd be very interested to hear what other users have done with this!


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