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Chapter 03 The ConceptIssues. Such as today’s or tomorrow’s newspaper,or the yearly report for 2008 or 2009.(Media types which can be seen as a continuouspublication—such as Web—commonly usea single Issue.)An Issue can also be set up so that it hasgot its own Categories, Workflow, andUser Authorization definitions, independent fromthe setup used for the Brand that the Issue ispart of. (This allows for more ad-hoc projectbasedworkflows.)Editions. Used for creating different instancesof the same Issue. For example, a newspapermay produce a North City edition and a SouthCity edition printed on the same day. The twoeditions share a lot of the same content, butsome stories or advertising may be unique tothe North City or South City editions.Because of the nature of Editions, they areonly available for Publication Channels oftype Print.3. Separating Content from PublishingThe main benefit of the new structure—especially theintroduction of Publication Channels—is that it allows fora much greater flexibility: content can now be plannedor created without precisely knowing when and how it isgoing to be published.For example: imagine an editor of a newspaper whowants to create a feature article about an artist. So it’sclear that the article is meant for the newspaper’s Brand(say “The Times”) and the “Culture” Category. However,it is not yet clear when the article will be published and ifit will be published in both the printed magazine as wellas online. Enterprise 6 allows you to do just that: plan andcreate content and only assign it to a Brand and Category.Once it is clear how it is going to be published, it can beassigned to the proper Publication Channel(s), Edition(s),and Issue(s).In essence, content has been separated frompublishing.Editions and Issues used to be part of a Publicationin previous versions of Enterprise.24