Publication BluePrints
A BluePrint is a hierarchy of Publications in which Parent Publications share content with Child Publications. BluePrinting enables you to reuse structure, content, and design between Publications.
Terminology
The key terms used in BluePrinting are:
- BluePrint
- A BluePrint establishes the relationships between Publications and enables your organization to share and manage items within multiple Publications.
- Root parent
- A Root Parent Publication is the first Publication in a BluePrint. It contains only items created within that Publication. A Content Manager system can contain multiple BluePrints. When you create a BluePrint, all Publications in the BluePrint share the Root Structure Group from the Primary Parent.
- Parent
- A Parent Publication shares items to one or more Publications called Child Publications. A Parent Publication can also be a Child Publication.
- Shared items
- Shared items are items inherited from Parent Publications. These items are read-only items unless you create a local copy.
- Local copies
- Local copies are shared items that have been localized. Localizing is the process of creating a local copy of a shared item which can then be modified locally.
- Local items
- Local items are items that have been created in the Child Publication.
BluePrints in the user interface
How you view BluePrint relationships depends on whether you are working in Experience Space or the Classic user interface.
- In Experience Space, the BluePrint panel gives you information about the BluePrint relationships of the item you have selected.
- In the Classic interface's Content Manager Explorer, the BluePrint Viewer provides a visualization of the Parent-Child relationships within a BluePrint and the BluePrint relationship between items:
For more information on this feature, refer to the topic on using the BluePrint Viewer.