"Send Data to a page" Vs Just using "Do a Search For" on the destination page?

[Buddha]

I am trying to understand the need for using “Send data to a page” instead of just querying the database on the destination page.

Thanks.

[mikeloc]

Hi there, @Buddha… I think the answer is somewhat right there in your question. If you know the data on the destination page is always going to be of a certain type, you can send data to the page so you don’t have to query the database to get the data you need. That being said, if a page has a content type defined for it, you will always have to send data of that type to the page, so I have personally shied away from using that approach so that the destination page (and navigating to it) is more “flexible”.

Hope this helps.

Best…
Mike

Edit: FYI… this article is probably worth a read.

[Buddha]

@mikeloc

nswer is somewhat right there in your question. If you know the data on the destination page is always going to be of a certain type, you can send data to the page so you don’t have to query the database to get the data you need. That being said, if a page has a content type defined for it, you will always have to send data of that type to the page, so I have personally shied away from using that approach so that the destination page (and navigating to it) is more “flexible”.

Hope this helps.

Thanks Mike!

That was very helpful. Wish you a great year ahead.