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Understanding variation inheritance


Some publications create variations of assets for different audiences, such as an article for US audience and a variation of that article for an international audience. Brightspot uses inheritance to manage the content between audience variations. (For other examples of audience variations, see Creating audience variations.)

  • When you start a new audience variation, its fields inherit content from the default variation.
    Initial audience flow Initial audience flow
    Initial audience flow
  • When you modify fields in the default variation, those changes cascade to the corresponding fields in the audience variation. The cascading stops when one of the following is true:
    • You changed a field in the audience variation. Brightspot protects such changes from being overwritten from the default variation.
    • You intentionally canceled the inheritance from the default variation as described in Creating audience variations.

Example 1: Text flow for unchanged fields

Adam Braun is responsible for delivering assets to native English speakers as well as to an international audience. In the default variation for native speakers, he uses idioms; in the international variation, he uses standard wording. He also wants to keep the audience variation as current as possible by allowing cascading changes from the default variation.

Adam is currently working on an article about migrating a publication from print to digital. The default variation has a headline and subheadline.The phrase doubling down is an idiom that may not be familiar to international speakers, so Adam makes a variation of this asset for his international audience. When he initially creates the international variation, the wording flows from the default variation.
01.Default variation, first version 01.Default variation, first version
Default variation, first version
02.International variation, initial draft 02.International variation, initial draft
International variation, initial draft

He then changes the international variation's headline from Doubling down on digital transformation to Pursuing a digital transformation.

03.International variation, first version 03.International variation, first version
International variation, first version

Back in the default variation, he modifies the headline.Because Adam changed the headline in the international variation, the inheritance from the default variation in that field is disconnected. Back in the international variation, the headline no longer cascades from the default variation.
04.Default variation, second version 04.Default variation, second version
Default variation, second version
05.International variation, second version 05.International variation, second version
International variation, second version

Next, in the default variation, Adam rewords the subheadline to include the keyword CMS.Because Adam did not change the subheadline in the international variation, the link to that field is still live with the default variation. His change in the subheadline cascades.
06.Default variation, third version 06.Default variation, third version
Default variation, third version
07.International variation, third version 07.International variation, third version
International variation, third version

Example 2: Blocking all variation inheritance

In another scenario, Adam publishes default and international variations, but the audiences are so disparate that he wants to avoid changes in the default variation from cascading. (For information about blocking variation inheritance, see Creating content variations.)

For the default variation, he creates a headline and subheadline.He then starts an international variation, which initially inherits text from the default variation.
10.Default variation, initial version 10.Default variation, initial version
Default variation, initial version
11.International variation, initial draft 11.International variation, initial draft
International variation, initial draft

Adam returns to the default variation to make an update to the headline and subheadline fields.Adam views the international variation. Because all inheritance is blocked, neither the headline nor the subheadline change.
12.Default variation, second version 12.Default variation, second version
Default variation, second version
13.International variation, second version 13.International variation, second version
International variation, second version
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