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Creating a Folder Hierarchy in WorldServer

About this task

Now that you have created a mount, you can create folders under the mount. We recommend that you place the locale folders directly under the mount folder, as we do in this tutorial, for the following reasons:
  • By default, a folder inherits the properties of its parent, so if you define a locale at a high level, lower levels of folders and assets inherit that locale.
  • It takes a little bit of setup to establish locale folders so establishing them at a higher level can mean less setup work. We’ll work through those setup steps later in this tutorial.

There may be good reasons to use a different organizational scheme. For example, you may want to organize your directories by company division (such as education, documentation, and marketing, with locale folders under each division folder. This organization has the advantage of leading appropriate users to the right content, but may involve a little more setup.

To set up the folder hierarchy for the tutorial:

Procedure

  1. In WorldServer, go to the Explorer by clicking the Explorer tab.
  2. Double-click the mount you just created, wstut. Because you just created it, there are no files or folders in this mount.
  3. Click Asset > New.
  4. On the New Folder or Asset dialog box, select Filesystem Directory to create a new folder.
  5. In the Name field, enter en_US to create a folder corresponding to the English (United States) locale.
  6. Click OK.
  7. Make sure that wstut is selected, and repeat these steps to create another folder named de_DE.
    The two folders are now listed under wstut.

    So far, these folders have special names and are therefore recognizable to humans as locale folders. However, the folders have no special meaning to WorldServer. We need to perform a few more steps in WorldServer to associate the folders with locales.