About

Keeping a site available during outages, campaigns, or maintenance windows often means editors have to reconfigure the site's root page by hand. Editing the site's root property directly is error-prone and requires technical knowledge of the underlying content model — not something you want to rely on in a time-critical failover situation.

The Failover Site Switch extension for CoreMedia Content Cloud makes this a one-click operation directly inside CoreMedia Studio. Instead of manually reassigning a site's root page, editors can prepare a set of failover root pages up front and switch between them instantly whenever the situation demands it.

The extension enriches the site form with a visual Root Page Switch field that lets editors:

• Prepare Failover Candidates
  Maintain a list of eligible root pages for a site (for example a live homepage, a maintenance page, or a campaign landing page) that are then offered as ready-to-activate options.
• Visual Root Page Selection
  See every candidate root page as a tile with a thumbnail preview (or a document-type icon as fallback) and its name. The page that is currently live is clearly highlighted as active.
• One-Click Failover
  Activate a different root page with a single click. A confirmation dialog prevents accidental switches, and once confirmed the site's root page is updated immediately — no property editing, no technical knowledge required.

The lightweight design keeps the workflow fast and predictable, making the extension ideal for failover, maintenance, and campaign scenarios where switching a site's entry point quickly and reliably matters.

The actions are seamlessly integrated into the CoreMedia Studio UI.
On the site form a Root Page Switch field appears in the site form, rendering all candidate root pages as selectable tiles with the active page highlighted.

Installation

You can get the source code here: https://github.com/coremedia-contributions/blueprint-failover-site-switch

It is provided and installed as a CoreMedia Extension.

Requirements

• CoreMedia Content Cloud

Support

This App is part of CoreMedia Labs. CoreMedia Labs provides access to our latest and greatest product enhancements, ideas, and early prototypes. We want to share this with our customers and partners early to collect feedback and learn how to improve our software.

The code we provide is meant to be example code, illustrating a set of features that could be used to enhance your CoreMedia experience. We'd love to hear your feedback on use-cases and further developments! Please refer to the GitHub issues section if you have problems with our code. If you already have a solution to an issue, we love to review and integrate your pull requests.