Creating a Site for Different Audiences

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Creating a Site for Different Audiences

If you divide your audience up into multiple audiences, CityDesk will publish a separate web site for each audience. Then it's possible to create articles that only one audience will see.

Here are some ideas for how to use this:

To create regional editions of your web site. Most articles appear in every regional edition. But articles that are only of interest to one region only appear in that region.

To create editions of your web site for different populations. For example, a hotel site might have an edition for guests, one for staff, and one for everybody else.

To create an Intranet version of your web site, visible only inside the company, which contains more articles than the Internet version, visible to everyone. Sensitive articles and boring stuff about company picnics could be limited to the Intranet.

Usually, you will publish the editions for each audience in different publish locations. In some cases, you will simply publish them in different subdirectories on the same web server, but you might also publish them to different web servers altogether. See Managing Publish Locations.

To define audiences:

  Use the Audiences Dialog to edit the list of audiences.

Remember that every visitor to your site must be assigned to some audience. If you only define a Staff audience, you only get one version of your site. If you want an audience for EverybodyElse , you should create it explicitly. (In other words, it never makes sense to have exactly one audience, since that still just publishes one site).

To create articles for one audience:

  Edit the article.

  Switch to the Properties tab.

  Using the Audiences dropdown, select the audience that this article is for.

To create articles for every audience:

  Edit the article.

  Switch to the Properties tab

  Using the Audiences dropdown, select (Everyone).

To create articles for two or more audiences:

  Use copy and paste to create multiple copies of the same article, one for each audience.

By default, when you publish a site with multiple audiences, CityDesk will create a subdirectory for each audience and put a complete copy of the site in each subdirectory, each containing only the articles targetted for (Everyone) or for the appropriate audience.

You can override this behavior by creating a custom Publish Location that only publishes a single audience. If the public version of your site lives on a different web server, for example, this is especially convenient. See Managing Publish Locations.

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