Impersonator documents make it easier to reuse structure with different content.

Domain
Principles

The impersonator uses transclusion to fetch content from another page to render it in its own context.

Changes to the transcluded document are automatically reflected in the transcluding document. Therefore the transcluded document is referred to as live template.

How can teams reuse existing structures for creating new documents?

Related Practices

The following practices are related to this practice.

Employ Delegate Documents
Delegate documents make it easier to reuse content from existing documents as a whole.
Employ Mapping Documents
Mapping documents support adding information to the association of two (or more) documents.

Resources

For more information regarding this practice please refer to:

Impersonator - using Live Templates
A short introduction using the impersonator feature of the projectdoc Toolbox. In this example we examine what to do to reuse a layout defined in another document.