As a Page Creator I would like to create relationships between items of different types (3)

• Type: Epic
• Status: In Analysis
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: None
• Component/s: Info Framework, Pages > Page Editor
• Labels:
  • d_20_11
  • d_20_12
  • d_21_01
  • fc_21_02
  • requested-by-commerce
• Epic/Theme:
  • Page_Authoring
• Epic Status: To Do

A common need across many enterprise solutions is the ability to define and retrieve relationships between items of the same or different types. These relationships can be of several types:

• Manually determined by a person or automatically generated
• Static or dynamic (changes over time)
• Sorted or unsorted
• Bi-directional or uni-directional
• Single valued or Multi-valued
• Single-scope or multi-scope (i.e. link to items in a different scope)

Some examples of useful relationships that have been found useful when building Liferay applications and solutions are:

1. Blog Entry -  suggested blog entries: manually picked blog entries that the reader may want to continue with after finishing the current entry. Characteristics: Sorted, Multi-valued.
2. Blog Entry - entries about the same topic: automatically picked based on the categories or tags of the current entry. Characteristics: Unsorted, Multi-valued.
3. Product - related web content: manually picked web content that help describe the product. Characteristics: Sorted, multi-valued.
4. Product - Documents: manually picked documents that a product buyer may want to have access too. Characteristics: Unsorted, multi-valued.
5. Category - Web Content: which can be used in a Category Display Page
6. Category - Image Document: which can be used in a Category Display Page

The goal of this Epic is to provide a set of improvements that allow end users to create relationships as well as display items following the relationships. Solution developers should be able to define custom relationship types.