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Using BluePrinting to publish different content to different machines

Use your BluePrint structure to decide which content to publish to which machine, for efficiency and better performance.

You can use BluePrinting to create different versions of your Web site. For example, you can have an English version, a French version and a German version of your Web site. In such a situation, some content (say, the company logo) must be published to all versions, while other content (say, a German press release) only needs to be published to one specific version.

It is likely that these various versions of the Web site run on different servers, quite possibly in different physical locations.

To make sure that the right BluePrint content is published to the right machine, create one Publication Target for each version, and specify a set of Publications that can publish to it. For example, you would allow only the German site's Publication and its parent to publish to the German site's Publication Target.

Then assemble all of these Publication Targets in one Target Type. Content authors and editors can now safely publish to this Target Type. SDL Tridion only publishes content to the machines that need it.