BluePrint Publications

Publications group content and layout items that represent the building blocks of a Web site. A BluePrint is a hierarchy of Publications in which Parent Publications share content with Child Publications.

When you create a Promotion, you need to select the Web site Publication the Promotion is available in. The selected Publication is referred to as the Scope Publication. By default, a Promotion is only available in this Publication. You can choose to include the Promotion in Child Publications in which case the Promotion in Child Publications returns localized content.

The Publication you choose as the Scope Publication depends on how generic your Promotion is:
  • create a generic Promotion applicable for all Web sites at a higher level in the BluePrint so that Web site Publications lower down the BluePrint can use it
  • create a specific Promotion applicable for localized Web sites
Content selection, including filtering, occurs on the selected Publication level, and not at Child Publication level. When a Promotion is triggered, the content items that can appear in the Promotion are selected and filtered and then, if the Promotion is triggered in a Child Publication, the localized content items for that Publication are retrieved. Consequently, local items are never displayed in a Promotion that was created in a Parent Publication, and content is always filtered on the same value in the Parent Publication regardless of whether the filter value has been changed in localized Components.
When you create a Promotion, click BluePrint Hierarchy to visualize the Parent-Child relationships in the BluePrint. The following diagram is an example of a BluePrint: