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Hazem Saleh
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Community articleHow to separate WCM Content from Design

Added by Hazem Saleh | Edited by IBM contributor DeAnna Steiner on September 13, 2012 | Version 4
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One of the recommended best practices is to separate the WCM content from the design. This post illustrates the difference between the content and the design, and includes a sample (on Portal 6.1.0.1) to show how to implement this best practice.
Tags: 6.0, 6.1, 6.1.0.1, 6.1.0.5, design content libraries, wcm-bp-dev
One of the recommended best practices is to separate the WCM content from the design in two different libraries.
 
The WCM design includes the following:
1. Presentation Template.
2. Authoring Template.
3. Workflow.
4. The WCM Components.
 
While the WCM content includes the following:
1. Site.
2. Site Area.
3. Content.
 
It is very important to consider this separation from day 1.

This can be achieved by creating two different libraries, one for the content and the other for the design.
 
I attached here, an example of two libraries (ArticlesContent), (ArticlesDesign) which follow this best practice.
 
To import the libraries in your Portal Server 6.x,  just follow the following steps:
http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wpdoc/v6r0/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.wp.ent.doc/wcm/wcm_config_wcmlibrary_export.html

 

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