About titles and publications

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A title represents a a daily newspaper or a weekly magazine or a stand-alone Web site.

There are two kinds of "titles":

Title: it is a fully enabled metadata structure.

A title is related to a typography. A typography can be used by more titles, but one title can be related to only one typography.

Create a separate title for each product, and - if products have different look and feel - link each title to a separate typography.

Create and use titles for all the content in the GN4 system, including the editorial production and archived paper content, generated by GN4.

There is no need to create separate titles for the paper and Web production or other channels, as one title can serve both.

Set the permissions on titles - they are inherited by all editions you will create in the system.

Publication: it is a cut-down metadata structure.

Use it for the titles in a stand-alone Tark4 archive not connected to a GN4 editorial system, or for the legacy archived editions, e.g. scanned and OCR-ized, or produced with an old or previous editorial system.

IMPORTANT NOTES

You cannot create a title and a publication with the same name. The name must be unique. Anyway, you do not need to create both title and a publication. If the content is produced by GN4 editorial system and archived from it, a title serves both the production and the archive. If the content is produced by another editorial system and archived in Tark, a publication is enough.

In a GN4 system you can create any number of titles, but at least one is required.

Title names are unique in the system.

When you plan titles, have in mind that a name may be rather long, but it is recommended to keep it as short as 8-10 characters. In a multi-title environment, consider that titles appear in various dialog boxes in the alphabetic order and not in the order of creation or importance.

Titles can be renamed at any time without consequences except on the order of appearance in dialog boxes and lists, because all the operations reference to the unique ID of the title rather on its name.

Titles are linked to typographies. Use typographies to separate fonts, formats etc between titles. More titles can however share the same typography.