Localizing items
In a Child Publication, you can localize an item shared from a parent Publication. This means that 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
To perform this task, the following must be true:
- You have rights to the item you intend to localize.
- You have localize permission for the containing organizational item (Structure Group, Folder, Category).
- The item you intend to localize is a shared item.
- The item you intend to localize has at least the Minimum Approval Status required for localization in this Publication (if a Minimum Approval Status was configured).
Procedure
- Access the Content Manager Explorer website.
- Navigate to and select the item you intend to localize.
- Open the Ribbon toolbar Organize tab and click Localize.
Results
The following is true for a localized item:
- Users can edit the item.
- Users can unlocalize the item, which means removing the local copy and reverting to the shared 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 the localized item is a Folder, Structure Group, or Category, the items in such a container was not localized along with it.
- If the Publication in which you localize the item has Child Publications, any Child Publications that used the shared item previously now share the localized item from this Publication.
- If the localized tem 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.