Publications
Publications, which represent websites, are listed in the left column of SDL Tridion (the Publication list). You will only see sites which you have been granted permission to edit.
Parent publications - labeled with a (1) suffix - are the only publications which are not websites.
Rather than containing a website, parent publications house content for all websites of a single department.
Only large organizations with multiple websites have a parent publication.
After signing in to Tridion, you will see a list called Publications in the left column and an empty area in the center.
For the most part, each publication represents one website.
The Publications column or pane shows all the Publications to which you have access, shown below.
All of the publications, or websites, to which you have access are listed to the left.
Parent & Child Publications
Generally, each blue globe represents a publication, what we would commonly refer to as a website. But there is one IMPORTANT exception to the one website per publication rule: Parent Publications.
Parent Publications
When a department has multiple subsections or organizations affiliated with it, a "parent publication" is used to house the content for all of the websites in that organization.
For example,
IntMed (1)is the parent publication of Internal Medicine.IntMed (1)is where all of the components for the Internal Medicine websites are built (inside of the yellow Building Blocks folder).There are no pages in the pink Root folder of
IntMed (1)since parent publications do not represent websites.
Child Publications
Child publications are any publications that have access to the components shared from a parent publication.
For example, listed just below
IntMed (1)isIntMed (2) - Main Site, the "child publication" which contains Internal Medicine's home site.The home site for an organization that has a parent publication will always be named
{Organization Name} (2) - Main Site.
Notice that all of the different publications with the prefix "IntMed." IntMed (1) is the parent publication that only contains content in its Building Blocks folder. IntMed (2) is the main site for Internal Medicine, but is a child publication. All other sites with "IntMed" in the name are also child publications. The child publications borrow components from the parent publication.
After that, the other child sites, such as IntMed - Cardio and IntMed - Cardio - YTRIC are listed.
Pages for these sub-departments, or child publications, are built in the pink Root folder of each respective publication.
Like the Main Site, all components for these sites should be built in
IntMed (1).
If you see a publication with a name like “IntMed (1)” or “Surgery (1),” it is a parent publication that contains no actual pages, and therefore does NOT represent a website.
It is just a container for website content, i.e. components, that might be shared between multiple Internal Medicine or Surgery websites, for example.