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BluePrinting

BluePrinting is a key concept in SDL Tridion. This section provides an overview of BluePrinting with regard to Online Marketing Explorer.

A BluePrint establishes the relationships between Publications and enables your organization to share and manage content within multiple Publications. BluePrinting allows you to reuse content by defining global content at a high level which is then shared down the BluePrint hierarchy. For example, a Corporate Web site (.com) contains global content that is shared to local Web sites (.nl, .fr, .co.uk and so on) where it is localized. A local Web site contains global content inherited from the Corporate Web site and local content created by the local organization for the local market.

A BluePrint contains Parent Publications which share items to one or more Publications called Child Publications. Child Publications inherit content from Parent Publications. A Child Publication can also contain local content that you can combine with shared content. Child Publications therefore contain a combination of:
  • Local items—content created in this Publication
  • Shared items—content shared from a Parent Publication
  • Local copies—shared items that have been localized
A Parent Publication can also be a Child Publication. The following diagram shows a BluePrint in the BluePrint viewer: