Aurora: Setting inheritance
Setting inheritance applies settings at higher level places to lower level places in the community. Settings at the community level are automatically applied to other (lower) places in the community. This applies to most settings in the admin panel that exist at both higher and lower level places and provides the benefit of setting a template for each new place that gets added, which saves you from having to adjust every setting every time.
How does it work? The community level is considered the highest place in the community, and all other places in the community (categories, boards, blogs, etc.) are considered children of the community node. They follow this hierarchy:
Community > Category/Group > Board (Knowledge Base/Forum/Blog/Ideas/Event)
The community node itself sets the default values for the community as a whole. Provided you make no changes to the settings for any other places in the community, they will use the value set at the community level. Categories can also set the default for their child places.
If you decide you want a child place to have a different value for some setting than its parent, then you can simply adjust the setting for that specific place. When you’ve adjusted a setting for a child place, a PARENT OVERRIDE indicator is displayed next to that setting for the child place to indicate that it overrides the settings of its parent.
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