Guidelines for publishing, republishing, and unpublishing
Publish and reuse study objects at the highest-level study object that makes sense. For example, consider publishing and reusing forms rather than individual items, unless you specifically need individual items to be available in a library. A reused form can save you more time than a reused item.
Where possible, consider publishing and reusing study events and study elements rather than forms.
Consider publishing codelists and codelist items so they can be shared and reused.
If you copy a study object in a library to another library and link to the study object and its children, when you modify the study object in one library, you cannot subsequently publish it in the library into which it is copied. To publish a study object that you modified in one library and linked to in another library, you must delete the linked study object and create a new link to the modified study object.