Generating simulated containment reports of dynamically assembled components in a content management system

摘要

A content management system (CMS) uses a simulated containment report generation mechanism to generate a simulated containment report for elements in the repository based on logged properties that represent potential use of the element during dynamic content delivery that are not represented in formal relationships in the content management system. Properties such as probability, popularity, and recent usage that are not explicit relationships between parent documents and child elements are logged and used to determine which document maps may potentially reuse a selected element. In this manner a simulated containment report can be created for an element that allows the user to see the document maps that are most likely to include the element.

主权项

1. An apparatus comprising:
at least one processor; a memory coupled to the at least one processor; a repository residing in the memory that includes a plurality of elements and a plurality of document maps; a content management system residing in the memory and executed by the at least one processor, the content management system managing the plurality of elements and the plurality of document maps in the repository, wherein each of the plurality of document maps defines a document that is dynamically generated and includes at least one element that does not have any explicit relationship in the repository, the content management system comprising:
properties for the plurality of document maps in the repository that are not represented in any explicit relationships in the repository and that represent potential for each of the plurality of document maps to reuse the plurality of elements when a document is dynamically generated from one of the plurality of document maps, wherein the properties are logged when documents corresponding to the plurality of document maps are dynamically generated by the content management system;a ranking policy that specifies criteria for including and ranking the plurality of document maps in a simulated containment report according to the properties when a user makes a request to generate the simulated containment report for a selected one of the plurality of elements, the simulated containment report specifying which of the plurality of document maps can contain the selected one element; anda simulated containment report generation mechanism that receives the request to generate a simulated containment report for the selected one element, determines when the properties for each of the plurality of document maps satisfy the ranking policy, and when the properties for a selected one document map satisfy the ranking policy, the simulated containment report generation mechanism adds the selected one document map to the simulated containment report, and when the properties for the selected one document map do not satisfy the ranking policy, the simulated containment report generation mechanism does not add the selected one document map to the simulated containment report.