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Using BluePrinting to publish different content to different machines

Use your BluePrint structure to decide which content to publish to which machine, for efficiency and better performance.

You can use BluePrinting to create different versions of your Web site. For example, you can have an English version, a French version and a German version of your Web site. In such a situation, some content (say, the company logo) must be published to all versions, while other content (say, a German press release) only needs to be published to one specific version.

It is likely that these various versions of the Web site run on different servers, quite possibly in different physical locations.

To make sure that the right BluePrint content is published to the right machine, create one Web application or Web site for each version, and map each version Publications to its corresponding Web application or Web site. For example, you would map only the German site's Publication to the German site's Web application.

Then assemble all of these Web sites in one Content Delivery environment, corresponding to one Target Type. Content authors and editors can now safely publish to this Target Type. SDL Web only publishes content to the machines that need it.