Choosing a source of truth

Depict is what decides that this listing page exists. Your page’s menu/navigation and routing gets the information from Depict’s Get Listings API. This means adding a new category or brand page in the Depict portal will automatically make it available in your menu/navigation and routing.

Pros:

• Works with all types of listing pages
• You get full support for re-arranging the category hierarchy in the Depict portal

Cons:

• Need to re-implement menu/navigation and routing if already implemented using another source of truth (e.g. Centra)

You will provide listing ids to the DepictCategory class as listingQuery in the format of:

{
    "type": "listingId",
    "id": "cbf88de7-86cb-49d0-93a7-34fb2b2029fb"
}

You retain your PIM as source of truth for your routing and for rendering the menu/navigation elements of your page.

Pros:

• Don’t need to re-implement menu/navigation and routing using Depict

Cons:

• Does not work at all for listings that can’t be requested with externalId see table.

You will provide external ids to the DepictCategory class as listingQuery in the format of:

{
    "type": "externalId",
    "id": "135"
}