BluePrinting

A BluePrint is a hierarchy of Publications in which Parent Publications share content to Child Publications. Child Publications can contain: shared content from a Parent Publication, localized content, and local content.

The following diagram shows a simple BluePrint hierarchy consisting of 3 layers:

  1. Layer 1 of the BluePrint is the global content layer: global content, including Folders, Structure Groups, Page Templates and Component Templates, is created in the Corporate Publication so that all the sites share the same look-and-feel, branding and site structure. The Corporate Publication shares this information to its Child Publications.
  2. Layer 2 of the BluePrint is the translation layer: translators translate English content into German, French and Dutch; these language-specific country Publications contain the translated versions of the Corporate Publication. When the Content Manager publishes Pages created in these Publications, the resulting Web sites include multilingual information that is also region specific.
  3. Layer 3 of the BluePrint is the Web site layer in which a Corporate Web site has local sites in Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany and whereby each of these local sites have specific language and local content requirements:
    • Belgium—a site that requires French and Dutch content.
    • Netherlands—a site that requires Dutch and English content.
    • Germany—a site that requires English and German content.

Note that in this example, the Corporate Publication does not represent a Web site. Its items are never published, but only shared to Child Publications, which do represent Web sites.