Step 3: Selecting Items to Replicate

After you select your source and target servers (or project files), the next screen displays, where you can select individual sections, custom properties, and asset categories to replicate. You can also override any environment properties on the site.

The source hierarchy appears in the Site Hierarchy pane on the left, and the merged hierarchy appears in the Preview pane on the right.

To select items to replicate, perform these tasks:

1. In the Site Hierarchy pane, check the boxes beside the desired sections, custom properties, and asset categories you want to replicate.

   Selecting What Is Replicated

   
   

   The first time you replicate a site, you see the complete site hierarchy (including the root) in the Preview pane, even though nothing has been selected yet on the source. You still must select the site hierarchy and root section on the source in order for the site hierarchy to replicate.

2. Click Advanced and choose an option for replicating your hierarchy:

   • Choose Replicate the selected folders to replicate individual sections of your site.

   • Choose Replicate the entire source hierarchy to replicate the entire site.

     
     

     Note: Replicating the entire hierarchy is common if this is the first time you are replicating the site. The next time you replicate, you would choose selected folders.

     
     

   • Click Override Environment Properties to override the environment settings you made in the Environment Properties dialog in Designer (see Overriding Environment Properties).

   • Check Preserve the target's switched region associations if you want to preserve the content that contributors switched on the target server and therefore prevent it from being overwritten.

     Click OK to return to Site Studio Replicator.

3. To view the current properties for a particular section (on the source or target server), right-click that section and choose Properties.

   This opens the Properties dialog.

   Properties Dialog

   
   

   With this window open, you can continue clicking on different sections of the site hierarchy to view the properties for that section.

4. To remove a section from the target server, right-click that section and choose Delete.

   Deleting a section from the target server is useful when a section is no longer needed, or it has been moved to another part of the site.

5. Click Next and proceed to the next step (see Step 4: Completing Site Studio Replicator).

You can resize this dialog to see more of your site hierarchy.

When you select a Web site at the top-level or a section at the top-level, every section below it is replicated.

If you select a subsection on the source server, then the parent of that subsection must already exist on the target server. If not, you receive a message stating that the selected hierarchies could not be merged because there is no parent in the target hierarchy. To resolve, you must select the parent section of the one you're replicating on the source hierarchy.

A section that appears in bold on the target hierarchy (Preview pane) indicates that it is a section that is created during the replication process.