Localizing items
In a Child Publication, you can create a local copy of a shared item. When you localize a shared item, you create a local copy of the item that users can edit. If an item is a local copy, you can also unlocalize it to revert to the shared item from the Parent Publication.
Before you begin
- The User has rights for the item they want to localize
- You have localize permission for the containing organizational item (Structure Group, Folder, Category) —see Setting permissions
- The item is a shared item
About this task
For information on the shared items you can localize, see BluePrint items
Procedure
- Open Content Manager Explorer.
- In the list view, select the item you want to localize.
- Open the Ribbon toolbar Organize tab and click Localize.
Results
- After you localize an item, users can edit the item.
- Users cannot delete or cut-and-paste a localized item, because it is a copy of an item originally shared from the Parent Publication.
- If users want to remove the local copy and use the shared item, they can unlocalize the local copy.
- If a user localizes a Folder, Structure Group, or Category, the Content Manager does not localize the items contained in these organizational items.
- If the Publication in which you localize the item is a Parent Publication, any Child Publications that use the shared item will now share the localized item from this Publication.
- If the item has an associated Workflow Process in this Publication, the first time a User edits and saves the item, the Content Manager places the item in Workflow and assigns it to the User that edited the item.