Multi Site Manager (MSM) enables us to easily manage multiple web sites that share common content. MSM lets you define relations between the sites so that content changes in one site are automatically replicated in other sites.
MSM reduces the time it takes to manage us websites and increases the re-use of common content:
Note: For more on Multi Site Manager check this video
Blueprints target the rollout of complete multilingual website projects and are a tool to control multiple rollout configs and live copies. Blueprints allow you to control multiple live copies and centrally consistent rollout configs for the blueprint's live copies. A blueprint rollout will push modifications to all it's live copies.The default Blueprint Template assumes that the source web site has the following characteristics:
Live Copy is the creation of a new site based on the content and structure of an existing site. Changes or additions to the main site can then cascade down throughout Live Copies. When used to its full potential, this is a very powerful tool that can simplify management across a large number of sites with little effort.
Create a Live Copy of any page and its child pages, or of a single page. When you create the Live Copy, you can optionally specify the rollout configurations to use for automatically updating the content:
The following procedure creates a Live Copy using the classic UI.
There are some rollout configurations are installed by default in AEM . e.g Standard rollout config, Activate on Blueprint activation, Deactivate on Blueprint deactivation, Push on modify more
We need to create a rollout configuration when the installed rollout configurations do not meet your application requirements.
Create the rollout configuration, then add the trigger and synchronazion actions. The new rollout configuration is available when setting rollout configurations on a blueprint or on a Live Copy page
CREATE ROLLOUT CONFIGURATIONS
PROCEDURE TO ADD SYNCHRONIZATION ACTIONS TO THE ROLLOUT CONFIGURATIONS
Multi Site Manager (MSM) allows us to create copy of existing site and automatically update the copy when changes are done to the source site. Multi Site Manager (MSM) enables us to easily manage multiple web sites that share common content. We should use MSM when our website is :
To use MSM for managing language versions of a website, our website must use the following structure:
Procedure to modify the languages