Working with nested collections

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The community member is working on a website sitemap for a French real estate website, and they want to "divide" the sitemap by the type of rent (apartments, studios, houses) to optimize the crawling budget for Google. They have a structure in mind with nested collections (Departments, Cities, Ads), but they are struggling to get the value of the current collection item to reuse it in the second collection to filter the GET based on the department.

The community members discuss that resources cannot depend on data from other resources, and this would create a data fetching waterfall. They suggest embedding the array as a variable and using it in the collection, or creating a backend to handle the data fetching and keeping the Webstudio simple with a single fetch.

The community member decides to export the list of static things (Departments, Cities) manually and add them in JSON, and then only fetch the ads, which seems to be the recommended approach based on the discussion.

TThomas COUDERQ

Hey guys !

I'm working on my website sitemap, and I'm facing a few difficulties. My website is a french real estate website, and therefore I have a list of Regions, Department an Cities, along with a few types of rent (appartments, studios, houses...)

I'd like to "divide" my sitemap with the type of rent, to make it clearer for Google crawlers and optimize the crawling budget.

Therefore, I'm trying to do this tructure :

In my sitemap-appartement.xml page :

Collection --> Departement (a list of 101 departements)
- Collection --> Cities (will be a few thousands per departements)
  - Collection --> Ads (i.e the pages of the flats for rent)

and then duplicate this page for the other sitemaps (location-studios, location-houses)

The call for the first collection is working fine, but I'm struggling to get the value of the Current collection item to reuse it in my second collection (to filter the GET based on the department)

Is there any way to do this ? Or is it a bit tricky to work with nested collections like this ? Would it be better to make it static ? (a bit of work since there are 40k+ cities in France)

13 comments

OOleg Isonen

resources currently can't depend on data from other resources

OOleg Isonen

also it would create a data fetching waterfall

TThomas COUDERQ

Hmmm, so even if it was possible, not recommended ?

OOleg Isonen

just corrected myself, resources is the problem not collections

OOleg Isonen

if you embed the array as a variable and use it in the collection, it should work

OOleg Isonen