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Editing a Publication

Edit a Publication to change the content configuration, BluePrinting, security, Workflow and general Publication settings.

Before you begin

A system administrator can edit all Publication settings. Other users require the following rights:

  • Publication Management rights to edit Publication settings
  • Permission Management rights to edit Publication security settings
  • Workflow Management rights to edit Workflow settings

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. In the Publications navigation pane, select the Content Management node.
  3. In the list view, select the Publication you want to edit and in the Ribbon toolbar and click Properties.
    The Publication window opens.
  4. In the General tab, enter General Publication settings.
  5. In the Content Configuration tab, configure the default templates— Publication content configuration settings
  6. In the BluePrinting tab, select Parent Publications for this Publication— Inserting a Parent Publication on creation.
  7. In the Workflow tab, create Workflow associations for templates— Workflow settings.
  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

Changing Publication settings has the following consequences:
Setting a Business Process Type

If you set Business Process Type to a specific value for a Publication that had it set to (None) previously, and if the Web site had previously been manually added to the slide-out navigation Sites screen, the existing Web site (along with any application data) will now be removed. On the Sites screen, it will be replaced with the new one, published through Topology Manager, including Purpose(s) and URL.

Changing Publication URL or Images URL

If you modify the Publication URL or the Images URL, you should republish any published items.

Changing Metadata

If you modify or add metadata values, other items (Component Templates, Page Templates, and Template Building Blocks) can reference metadata values via the .NET Tridion Object Model (TOM.NET).

Changing Content Configuration

If you change the default Component Template, the change affects the action of previewing a Component using the default Component Template

If you change the default Page Template, the change has the following effect: Structure Groups may inherit the default Page Template value, and Pages may use the default Page Template. If a Structure Group inherits the default Page Template value, and a nested Page in the Structure Group uses the value "Default Page Template", the new default template will be used to render the Page.

If you change the default Template Building Block, it has no effect.

Changing BluePrinting

If you add one or more Parent Publications to this Publication as part of a BluePrint, the Content Manager will share items according to the priority given to each Parent Publication.

Changing Workflow

If you add a Workflow Association to the Publication for Component Templates and/or Page Templates, when the respective item is created or edited and saved, the item automatically enters the selected Workflow Process.

Changing Publication Type or Publication Key

If you modify the Publication to no longer have the type SiteType, any created sites that have this Publication as their Site Type can no longer be used until you assign them a new Site Type in Topology Manager.

If you modify the Publication Key, you need to manually update any mappings in Topology Manager that use the old Publication Key value to now use the new Publication Key value.