Method libraries can be comprised of content from many types of methods and whole families of different processes. A method configuration defines a logical subset of a method library. You use method configurations to define the scope of your authoring work and when publishing or exporting content.
For example, when you create a process you must specify at least one method configuration that this process is authored against. See Method configurations overview for more details.
You use the method configuration editor to create and modify method configurations. In this editor, you select which method plug-ins, content packages, and categories of elements you want to include to or exclude from the method library into the method configuration. The selections that you make restrict the scope of the content that you use as a basis for defining your process. These selections also determine the content of the published Web site.
Method configurations are assigned names and are saved so that they can be reused at a later date. In addition to creating new method configurations, as described below, you can also simply copy and paste a configuration by right-clicking the method configuration that you want to copy and right-clicking the top-level Configurations folder and clicking Paste. You will get a complete copy of the configuration with a new name that you can modify for your needs.
To create a new method configuration: