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Creating a root Publication

A primary Parent Publication contains items to share to all Publications in the BluePrint. When you create Child associations with other Publications, the Child Publication contains shared structure, design, and content items. Each BluePrint contains one primary Parent Publication, which must have a root Structure Group.

Before you begin

Users with system administration privileges can create Publications.

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. Create a Publication called, for example 00 Root.
  5. Click Save and Close.
  6. Select the Publication, open the Ribbon toolbar Create tab and click New > Structure Group.
  7. Create a Structure Group called, for example Root Structure Group.
  8. Click Save and Close.

Results

Your Publications navigation pane, under the root Content Management node, shows a Publication called "00 Root" with three child nodes: Building Blocks, Root Structure Group and Categories and Keywords.

What to do next

After you have created a primary Parent Publication, you can add Child Publications to the BluePrint and create content (Schemas, Components, Templates and so on) that you want shared to all Child Publications.