Cross-company calls using rulesets

We have multiple Scene7 companies; how can we share images between these accounts on the URL?

Scenario

• A company is a S7 customer and has images in a S7 account.
• A department, subsidiary, or related company wants to serve these images as well at their own discretion.
• The parent company wants to limit access to their S7 account for security, contractual, or responsibility reasons.

Potential solution

Website integration of subsidiary uses the existing assets with a URL integration, but serves them through their own account. Usually, having access to the SPS account of the mother company is not required. But, it can be given using read-only rights (MediaPortal).

• Parent/Main company: "TechSupportEU"
• Child/Subsidiary company: "TechSupport1"

Normal URLs:

• http://kbpublic.scene7.com/is/image/TechSupportEU/BackpackT610
  
• http://kbpublic.scene7.com/is/image/TechSupport1/Backpack_B

The simplest solution is to specify the src command in your URL.

Subsidiary calls Main company:
http://kbpublic.scene7.com/is/image/TechSupport1/?src=TechSupportEU/BackpackT610&$Main$

This call goes through the company TechSupport1 and uses the product container TechSupportEU.

TechSupport1 can be a separate S7 contract.

• Traffic measures
  
• Own image preset and template definitions
  
• Requires less storage as product images are already stored under another contract
  
• Own images and videos can be uploaded to this account

*Note: Also the reverse is possible, the Main company calls the Subsidiary:

http://kbpublic.scene7.com/is/image/TechSupportEU/?src=TechSupport1/Backpack_B&$Main$

Rulesets

With the use of rulesets the URL can be simplified and also hide the usage of the product container’s account name, for example:

http://kbpublic.scene7.com/is/image/TechSupport1/cross/preset/product-name--product_id.jpg

Which is then translated into a S7 standard URL with a request from the Main company:

http://kbpublic.scene7.com/is/image/TechSupport1/?src=TechSupportEU/product_id&$preset$

Ruleset snippet

<rule Name="request from Main account">

<expression>^cross/([^/]*)/([^/]*)\.jpg$</expression>

<substitution>?src=TechSupportEU/$2&amp;\$$1\$</substitution>

</rule>

Limitations

• Does not apply to Video
• Does not apply to Viewers
• Does not apply to static content calls (/is/content/)

Best practices

Use a custom domain. If you need a new domain, configure it by contacting Scene7 Tech Support. Ensure that the domain you use has access to call content from each SPS company.

If you are using a ruleset, test it first on a staging environment:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/scene7/kb/base/scene7-rulesets/testing-ruleset-files-staging.html

For further reading on rulesets, see:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/scene7/kb/base/scene7-rulesets.html

Learn more about Request locking and obfuscation:

http://helpx.adobe.com/experience-manager/scene7/kb/base/content-security/altering-urls-request.html