Localizing items

In a Child Publication, you can create a local copy of a shared item. When you localize a shared item, you create a local copy of the item that users can edit. If an item is a local copy, you can also unlocalize it to revert to the shared item from the Parent Publication.

Before you begin

  • The User has rights for the item they want to localize
  • You have localize permission for the containing organizational item (Structure Group, Folder, Category) —see Setting permissions
  • The item is a shared item

About this task

For information on the shared items you can localize, see BluePrint items

Procedure

  1. Open Content Manager Explorer.
  2. In the list view, select the item you want to localize.
  3. Open the Ribbon toolbar Organize tab and click Localize.

Results

  • After you localize an item, users can edit the item.
  • Users cannot delete or cut-and-paste a localized item, because it is a copy of an item originally shared from the Parent Publication.
  • If users want to remove the local copy and use the shared item, they can unlocalize the local copy.
  • If a user localizes a Folder, Structure Group, or Category, the Content Manager does not localize the items contained in these organizational items.
  • If the Publication in which you localize the item is a Parent Publication, any Child Publications that use the shared item will now share the localized item from this Publication.
  • If the item has an associated Workflow Process in this Publication, the first time a User edits and saves the item, the Content Manager places the item in Workflow and assigns it to the User that edited the item.