Copying business areas vs managing folders

Hi all,
I am currently implementing the standard Oracle EUL alongside a bespoke one, but as ever 'standard' is not going to be completely that. So I have copied the standard business areas by exporting, renaming and importing in order to end up with a new business area that I can add to, take away from and generally mould to fit the business without destroying the original Oracle one.
This does mean that each folder needs to be renamed (as importing obviously won't let you keep an existing name) etc etc, so I'm now wondering whether it would have been a better idea to create a new BA and then share the existing folders using 'manage folders' etc thus keeping an even more vanilla version. presumably the down side of this would be recreating joins etc.
Does anyone have any opinions/advice on the best option here?
Thought I should ask before I get too far down the wrong road!
Thank you in anticipation
Emily

Hi,
I have copied the standard business areas by exporting, renaming and importingProbably not a good idea. Business areas are just buckets for holding folders. You assign security to business areas and therefore the business areas can be used to control access to the folders.
So it depends on why you want more business areas/folders. If you just need more business areas so you can more finely tune the access to the folders then you should create extra business areas and use manage folders to move the folders into the business areas. All the joins will be intact.
If you need additional folders because they need different joins or different item classes, then you need create new folders in the business area. You can do this by copying the folders, exporting/importing or by creating complex folder that map to the original folder. My preference is to create complex folders.
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