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Configuring an alternative BluePrint structure

Change your Page Templates to configure where Pages and Components are created or localized to accommodate a specific BluePrint structure.

About this task

When a user on the staging Web site creates or localizes a Page or Component, then by default, the Page or Component is created or localized in the Publication that was published to create the staging Web site. However, this may not always be the Publication in which you want a Page or Component to be created or localized.

For example, you may have a BluePrint structure in which the lowest Publication in the tree, representing a bilingual Web site, combines content from two parent Publications, each representing a language. For example, a bilingual English-Japanese Web site would inherit from two parent Publications, one containing Japanese Components and another containing English Components.

In this case, you would want English Components to be created and localized in the parent English Publication, and Japanese Components in the parent Japanese Publication. You can configure this in the slide-out navigation Settings screen.

For similar reasons, you may want your content items to be published and unpublished using a different Publication than the one that directly corresponds to the editable Web site.

Procedure

  1. Open a browser, access a Web page that is editable and start editing by clicking the SDL Tridion button at the top left corner of the page.
  2. Select the slide-out navigation button at top left, select Settings and in the screen that appears, select Inline Editing.
    A list of settings appears.
  3. Select BluePrint Context Settings from the list.
    A list of Publication appears.
  4. Select the Publication that corresponds to your published Web site.
    A BluePrint Context area slides into view on the right.
  5. To use an alternative BluePrint Publication for Pages than the one you just selected, select that alternative Publication from the Page BluePrint Context.
    When editing, the end user will now see the Page content from the alternative Publication, save changes to Pages to that Publication, and localize shared Pages in that Publication.
  6. If you also want newly created Pages to be created in this Publication, select Also create Pages in this Publication.
    When editing, the end user will now create new Pages in this Publication as well.
  7. To use an alternative BluePrint Publication for Components than the one you just selected, select that alternative Publication from the Component BluePrint Context.
    Override Publish Publication
    If set, this parameter ensures that any publish and unpublish actions use the Publication with the Content Manager URI you specify.
    When editing, the end user will now see Component content from the alternative Publication, save changes to Components to that Publication, and localize shared Components in that Publication.
  8. If you also want newly created Components to be created in this Publication, select Also create Components in this Publication.
    When editing, the end user will now create new Components in this Publication as well.
  9. Click Apply Changes.
    Pages and Components will now be read from, saved to, localized in, and created in the Publication you configured.

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