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Creating a Publication

Publications often represent the building blocks (content, design, and Pages) that comprise a website. You create a Publication to create, organize, and manage these building blocks and to grant users rights and permissions to use and create these items.

Before you begin

To create Child Publications, you require the Child Publication Creation Privilege. To create other Publications, you require the System Administration Privilege.

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. In the Publications navigation pane, select the Content Management node.
  3. Open the Ribbon toolbar Create tab and click New Publication.
    The New Publication window opens.
  4. In the General tab, enter your general Publication settings.
  5. In the Content Configuration tab, configure the default templates.
  6. In the BluePrinting tab, select Parent Publications for this Publication.
  7. In the Workflow tab, create Workflow associations for templates.
  8. Click Save and Close.

Results

The Content Manager creates the Publication with the following items:

  • Default Page Template (for template-based publishing)
  • Data publishing Page Template
  • Default Component Template
  • Default Multimedia Schema
  • A number of different Template Building Blocks
  • A number of different Parameter Schemas

The default items are created in the Building Blocks\Default Templates folder of the new Publication. Component Templates and Template Building Blocks are used only in the legacy, template-based publishing framework.

What to do next

After adding a Business Process Type to this Publication, you can configure publishing for this Publication in the Publishing tab (which appears when you open the Publication properties dialog).