Building Blocks

A Building Block stores information about the configuration settings of a Workspace Control site. A Building Block can be imported back into its original site to recreate these settings. A Building Block can also be imported into a different environment to copy the settings. This makes Building Blocks useful for change management, and data exchange. Please note that Building Blocks contain all configuration information (except Licensing), but not all operational information (e.g. Logging, Audit Trail, Delegated Users). Therefore, Building Blocks can be used as configuration backup of your environment, but not as a full backup.

A Building Block is an XML file that can be edited manually. This makes it possible to use a Building Block as a template: before importing a Building Block into another site, you can replace site-specific information such as server names with the information applicable to the target environment.