One of the new features in SDL Web 8 (scheduled to be released in early November, 2015) is "re-locating items in the BluePrint hierarchy". This long awaited functionality gives the possibility of moving items "up" and "down" between child-parent Publications.
Of course, the user must have permissions to perform the action. This means read, create, delete permissions on the old and new Publications, so that the items can be successfully relocated.
The operation checks first that all dependencies are available before performing the actual move. If there are any errors, they will be all shown. This is a change in the approach how errors are displayed. So, rather than showing one error at a time, all errors will be shown.
The walkthrough below shows a Component being promoted from Publication "010 Schema" to Publication "020 Content".
In its original Publication "010 Schema", select the Component "My Article" and in context menu BluePrinting, select Demote.
A dialog window pops-up, prompting the user to select the target Publication. This can be any Publication under the current Publication, in the same branch. Some limitations of Promote/Demote in BluePrint is that it can only move items in the same branch. It cannot move things into a sibling Publication, or into another BluePrint structure all together.
Clicking Demote will perform the actual move.
The same functionality can be achieved also through the API. More information about that, in the next post Move Item in BluePrint using Core Service.
Of course, the user must have permissions to perform the action. This means read, create, delete permissions on the old and new Publications, so that the items can be successfully relocated.
The operation checks first that all dependencies are available before performing the actual move. If there are any errors, they will be all shown. This is a change in the approach how errors are displayed. So, rather than showing one error at a time, all errors will be shown.
The walkthrough below shows a Component being promoted from Publication "010 Schema" to Publication "020 Content".
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| Initially, "My Article" resides in Publication "010 Schema" |
In its original Publication "010 Schema", select the Component "My Article" and in context menu BluePrinting, select Demote.
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| Select BluePrinting Demote in original Publication |
A dialog window pops-up, prompting the user to select the target Publication. This can be any Publication under the current Publication, in the same branch. Some limitations of Promote/Demote in BluePrint is that it can only move items in the same branch. It cannot move things into a sibling Publication, or into another BluePrint structure all together.
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| Select destination Publication |
Clicking Demote will perform the actual move.
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| The Component "My Article" in the target Publication |
The same functionality can be achieved also through the API. More information about that, in the next post Move Item in BluePrint using Core Service.
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