That is a possibility. At the moment the customer is not sure if they want dynamic or point-in-time inheritance.

Nancy

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From: Joel Willers
I don't fully understand the need, but if you're inheriting fields, why duplicate them? Why not use, like, Panels to take pieces of the parent node to display on the child node? Then, if you change it in one, it will change in the other.