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Creating a Publication

Publications often represent the building blocks (content, design, and Pages) that comprise a Web site. 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 settigns.
  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. In the Audience Management tab (if Audience Manager is installed):
    • Specify the Synchronization Target used to synchronize data between the Content Manager and Presentation Server and the URLs of Contact Subscription pages and the Tracking page.
    • Assign Address Books to Publications to make them available to users so that users who have access to this Publication.
  9. Click Save and Close.

Results

The Content Manager creates the Publication as a Child Publication of the selected Publications. The Content Manager also creates the Default Multimedia Schema, Default Component Template, Default Page Template, and Default Template Building Block. The default items are created in the Building Blocks\Default Templates folder of the new Publication.

By default, any Workflow Process Associations associated with Schemas or Structure Groups in the Parent Publication are not shared to the Child Publication. For more information, see Sharing Process Associations from Parent Publications.

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).