Explain why changes to deliveries need to be made in the template and NOT the delivery activity?

In Adobe Campaign Classic, a delivery activity within a workflow is an instance created from a specified delivery template. The template serves as a blueprint, and its properties are copied to the delivery activity at the time of creation. Any modifications made directly to the delivery activity are local to that specific instance and do not alter the original template. Consequently, the next time the same template is used to create a new delivery, it will be based on the original, unchanged blueprint, and will not include any of the previous instance-specific modifications. To ensure changes are propagated to all future deliveries, the source template must be updated.

A. Modifying a delivery instance does not corrupt the source template. The system is designed to keep templates and their instances separate, preventing such errors.

C. The system does not track changes made to a delivery instance and then prompt for HTML confirmation when the source template is used again.

D. There is no default behavior in Adobe Campaign that prompts for a general confirmation of changes when reusing a template after one of its instances has been modified.

1. Adobe Experience League. (n.d.). Delivery templates. Adobe Campaign Classic v7 Documentation.

Section: About delivery templates.

Quote/Concept: "When you create a new delivery... you choose a template from which properties will be copied." This confirms that the delivery is a copy

not a live link. Changes to the copy (the delivery activity) will not affect the original (the template).

2. Adobe Experience League. (n.d.). Delivery. Adobe Campaign Classic v7 Documentation.

Section: Configuration.

Concept: The documentation shows that the delivery activity is configured by selecting a template. This establishes the one-way relationship where the template defines the initial state of the activity

but the activity does not write changes back to the template.

3. Adobe Experience League. (n.d.). Workflow best practices. Adobe Campaign Classic v7 Documentation.

Section: General recommendations.

Concept: The guide recommends using templates for deliveries "to save time and ensure consistency." This principle is violated if changes are made in the delivery activity

as consistency is lost for future executions. The master template must be the single source of truth for consistent properties.