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Publishing an existing article in another department

An article must be published within a department. The same goes for departments. They need to be listed in another department. That gives the site its structure. An article, or a department containing a full structure, can be published in an unlimited number of departments.
To publish an existing article or department in a department where it wasn’t originally created you use the copy/paste method.

It should be pointed out that in Polopoly, copying a content using the copy/paste buttons should not be taken literally; what is copied in the operation is a reference to the article, not the content object itself. There will only be one content object no matter how many copies you make from it using the copy/paste buttons. One great benefit from this is that when you update the content object the changes will immediately propagate to all occurrences of the content object.

Use the copy/paste method by performing the following steps:

Copy icon

Copy icon

Paste icon

Paste icon

  1. Navigate to or search for the article you wish to publish and open it in view mode
  2. Click the copy icon in the upper right of the template
  3. Go to the department where you want to publish the article and open the department in edit mode
  4. Click the paste icon above the content list
  5. Optional: Select position in the content list by using drag-and-drop technique to move it (grab the parallell lines in front of listed content)
  6. Click the "Save & View" button to save your changes

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