To help you save time when creating publications, you can reuse Forks. These are the references from a publication to its topics.
There are two ways to reuse a publication's forks:
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Reuse a fork in different publications
You can reuse a fork (and its lower-level forks) in a different publication. This helps to save time when creating similar publications, see Reuse Forks in Different Publications
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Reuse the same fork multiple times in the same publication
If you need a topic to appear multiple times in one publication, add a fork to it and then copy-and-paste that fork, see Reuse Forks in the Same Publication.
You can reuse parts of a publication's structure in other publications. This will help you to save time when creating new publications that are similar to existing ones. It will also reduce the amount of work needed when updating your publications.
To share the publication structure, you reuse the Forks. These are the references from a publication to the topics that contain the content.
When you reuse forks, there is an "origin" publication, where the original forks were made and there is the "target" publication where they are reused. In the target publication, reused forks are shown with a reuse symbol and you can only see the top-level fork. You cannot expand the fork to reveal any lower-level reused forks inside it.
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You can select a topic fork (origin publication) and reuse it in a different publication (target publication).
To reuse forks in different publications:
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Select the target publication in the Content Manager to open its structure.
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Expand the origin publication in the Content Manager.
The number to the right of a fork represents the number of forks included.
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Hold down Shift and then drag-and-drop the fork you want to reuse into the target publication structure.
The fork will appear at the bottom of the publication structure.
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Select the fork and use the arrow buttons to move it to a position of your choice in the structure.
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Select Save to confirm the publication changes.
You can copy and paste a publication fork (and its lower-level "child" forks). This is quick way to reuse parts of the structure multiple times in the same publication. For example, let's say you had a "Safety Precautions" topic that needed to appear in two different places in a publication. Instead of adding the same topic twice, you could add it once and copy and paste its fork.
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A fork is a reference from the publication's structure to a component, such as a topic, in the Content Manager. The fork is only the reference to the component. It is not the actual component.
To copy and paste a fork:
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In the Content Manager, select the publication that you want to view.
Paligo displays the publication's structure.
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Select the fork that you want to copy.
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Select the dotted menu ( ... ) for the fork and then select Copy with children.
Copy with children option for a fork.
Paligo makes a copy of the fork (and any "child" forks nested at a lower level), ready for you to paste it elsewhere in the publication structure.
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Select the dotted menu ( ... ) for the fork that you want to be either:
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Directly above the fork that you are going to paste into the publication
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A "parent" of the fork that you are going to paste into the publication.
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Select Paste followed by either:
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Child
To paste the copy so that it is one-level down from the "parent" topic.
For example, in the following image, the"Customer Support" fork has been copied and pasted as a child of "Safety Precautions".
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After
To paste the copy so that it appears after the fork you selected in the previous step. It is pasted below that fork, but at the same level.
For example, in the following image, the "Customer Support" fork has been copied and pasted after the "Safety Precautions" fork, at the same level.
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Repeat the paste process for each instance of the fork that you need in the publication.
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Select Save.
You now have multiple references to the same topic(s) in your publication.
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When you save, Paligo gives the copy of the fork a new ID. This is so that you can add cross-references to a specific fork if required. For example, if you need to cross-reference the second instance of a topic in a publication, you can cross-reference that topic's fork rather than the topic itself (see Add Cross-References to Other Topics).
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