How does the content sharing functionality from parent sites to child sites work? What type of content is supported?

Issue

• What does sites.content.sharing.with.children.enabled do,  how does the content sharing functionality from parent sites to child sites work, and what type of content is shared from parent sites?

Environment

• Liferay DXP 7.0
• Liferay DXP 7.1
• Liferay DXP 7.2

Resolution

• The sites.content.sharing.with.children.enabled property permits the sharing of structures and templates from parent sites to sub-sites. The property description is written as follows, and can be configured in one of the three available options:

  #
  # Set this property to 0 to disable the Sharing of Content with subsites for
  # all sites. Set this property to 1 to disable it by default while allowing
  # site administrators to enable it per site. Set this property to 2 to
  # enable it by default while allowing site administrators to disable it per
  # site.
  #
  #sites.content.sharing.with.children.enabled==0
  #sites.content.sharing.with.children.enabled==1
  #sites.content.sharing.with.children.enabled==2

• When this property is active, the expected behavior is that the following assets can be shared from parent sites:
  • Web Content Structures
  • Web Content Templates
  • Document Types
  • Vocabularies and Categories
  • Application Display Templates
  • Data Definitions (Dynamic Data Lists)

Additional Information

• New feature for Liferay 7: Sharing Content between Sites