Restricting Inheritance

Pages, images, files and folders can be completely excluded from multichannelling, so that they are not inherited at all, or inheritance can be restricted to specific channels.

1 Display of inheritance

The current inheritance setting for objects will be shown in the object lists in the column “Inheritance”.

  • the object is inherited without restrictions
  • the object is inherited with some restrictions
  • the object is excluded from multichannelling

2 Changing the inheritance

The inheritance of objects can be changed by selection the action “Inheritance” from the context menu or the actions dropdown (for multiple selected objects).

2.1 General inheritance

The general inheritance allows to completely exclude objects from multichannelling. The current state is shown by one of the following icons:

  • all of the selected objects are not generally excluded from multichannelling
  • some of the selected objects are generally excluded from multichannelling
  • all of the selected objects are generally excluded from multichannelling.

Objects, that are generally excluded from multichannelling will not be inherited in any channels at all.

This state can be changed by clicking the icon.

2.2 Remove from specific channels

If objects are not generally excluded from multichannelling, they can be removed from specific channels. The dialog will show all channels, that are applicable for all of the selected objects. The icon in the column Inheritance shows the current state:

  • all of the selected objects are inherited into the channel
  • some of the selected objects are inherited into the channel
  • some of the selected objects are not inherited into a higher channel (and therefore not inherited into this channel)
  • all of the selected objects are restricted from being inherited into the channel

There are two actions that can be performed in selected channels:

  • Remove from channel will remove the objects from the selected channels
  • Inherit in channel will re-inherit the objects into the selected channels

When clicking OK there will be a check, whether the inheritance can be changed without breaking consistency. If this is possible, the inheritance will be changed.

When the inheritance of published objects is changed, this will affect the next publish run. Objects that are no longer inherited will be removed and objects that are re-inherited will be added to the channel.

2.3 Recursive setting of exclusion

If the inheritance of a folder is restricted (by excluding or by adding channels into which the folder will no longer be inherited), this restriction will be applied to all subobjects, if possible.

If inheritance restrictions of folders are removed, this will not be applied to the subobjects, unless the checkbox Recursive is selected.

3 Inheritance consistency

Changing the inheritance is only possible, if some consistency rules are followed:

  • Objects in folders, that are excluded from inheritance also have to be excluded.
  • Objects in folders, that are restricted from being inherited in specific channels also have to be restricted (or generally excluded).
  • Objects cannot be generally excluded from inheritance if they have localized copies
  • Objects cannot be restricted from being inherited into channels, if they have localized copies in that channels or are local to that channels.
  • Re-inheriting of objects must not lead to duplicate names.

4 Implicit changes in inheritance

Some actions will implicitly change the inheritance of objects (if the Inheritance consistency is conserved).

  • Removing folders from channels will also remove all subobjects from the channels
  • Excluding folders from inheritance will also exclude all subobjects from inheritance.
  • Changing the inheritance of a page will set the identical inheritance to all language variants
  • New objects will get the inheritance setting of their folder
  • If objects are moved into another folder, the inheritance setting will be modified to conserve the inheritance consistency

5 Import/Export

The inheritance setting of objects will be exported and imported, if the target system supports changing the inheritance. If the target system does yet not support changing the inheritance, all imported objects will be fully inherited.

6 Required permissions

Removing objects from channels requires the permission to delete the object in the channel.

Generally excluding an object from multichannelling requires to delete the object in it’s channel.