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Freezing the baseline

Once all of the content is released, you can freeze the baseline of a publication. You only freeze a publication when no additional changes are needed to the contents. By freezing a baseline, it is always possible to know which version of each object was used for the publication. Note that releasing a publication output also freezes the publication's baseline.

About this task

You can share a baseline among different publications. When a baseline is shared among publications, the baseline must contain references to all objects used in every publication. Every publication however, may not contain all the objects that are referenced in the baseline. Be aware that you cannot freeze part of a baseline, in other words, you cannot freeze the part for objects in a single publication if sharing a baseline, you must freeze the whole baseline.

You should only freeze a shared baseline when all objects are to be released for all of the publications sharing the baseline. Sharing a baseline should only be done by advanced users that understand the implications.

Procedure

  1. In Publication Manager, open a publication.
  2. Click the Baseline tab.
  3. On the top toolbar, click Freeze.

Results

After you have frozen a baseline, you cannot change the content; however, you can change condition settings and output formats. This is how you can produce different, custom output from the same, frozen baseline.

If a baseline could not be frozen, a Freeze Baseline Report that contains information about why the baseline could not be frozen is displayed in the bottom pane.
ErrorDescriptionAction
Object is not releasedThe object is not released in the working languageReview and release the objects
Object no longer availableThe object or the version of the object does not exist anymoreSelect another version of the object or delete the object from the baseline
There is no value assigned to this variableThe variable has no value and cannot be resolvedProvide a value for the variable in the resource file attached to the baseline
Link could not be resolvedSome links could not be resolvedAll links to files or locations that are not part of the actual baseline (for instance PDF files, additional images, URL's,...), have the scope attributed set to external.