Hi

Do any of our fellow developers have a recommended approach for the use of B2C reference data that needs to drive functionality in the site. We need to import data from another CMS (Vignette) we are migrating from and we have various business data which are in the database import that we need to use in the site for vertical applications. An example would be a table full of restaurants which is already complete and correct. If we want to use this in the site (and allow for searching via its column values like name, address etc) are we best to implement this functionality our selves and link to a page for each restaurant or should we transfer all the columns to properties of a page per restaurant and handle everything within EPi? Are their performance considerations with using EPi instead of hitting the bespoke tables direct? I only worry that if we want to do more sophisticated linkage between custom data that this will prove complex and inefficient if we store all this data and its relations in EPi properties. I assume if we store it in bespoke tables then we will need to provide our own editor/renderer for it and it probably has search implications

This is the first time we are working with data 'outside; the EPi world.

Thanks in advance

Ted