Baselines

Use Baselines to quickly create new Umbraco Cloud projects using pre-made schema and setup.

A Baseline project is similar to a fork (forked repository) on GitHub. A clone of an existing project is created while maintaining a connection between the two projects. The connection exists between the Live environment of the Baseline project and the left-most mainline environment of the Child project.

Any project can act as a Baseline project.

The idea is that you have a project containing all your standard Umbraco packages and components. Some default Document Types that you want to use as a baseline for future projects are also configured. When you've made changes to your Baseline project, you can push them out to all the Child projects with a click of a button.

Baseline workflow

Create a Child Project

To create a Child project from a Baseline, follow these steps:

1. Log in to the Umbraco Cloud Portal.

2. Click the Create Project button.

3. Click Select Baseline project.

Select Baseline Project

1. Use the dropdown to choose an existing project to use as the baseline.

Choose an existing project that will become a base for your new project

1. Click Confirm.

2. Choose a Plan for the project.

3. Enter the Project Name.

4. Choose an Owner from the drop-down list.

5. Fill in the required Technical Contact information.

6. Click Continue.

7. Review the Summary of the information provided.

8. Select I have read and agree to the terms and conditions and the Data Processing Agreement.

9. Click Create Project.

The Child project creation time depends on the size of the Baseline project.

Restore content from the Baseline project

When you've created the Child project, you can restore content from the Baseline project:

1. Go to the newly created project.

2. Click Backoffice.

3. Go to the Content section.

4. Click ... next to the Content tree.

5. Select Environment Restore.

6. Ensure Baseline is selected in the dropdown as the source environment.

7. Click Restore from Baseline.

If you do not see the content, reload the content tree once the restore is complete.

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