Sitecore enhancing content author experience

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SITECORE – ENHANCING CONTENT AUTHOR EXPERIENCEGOPIKRISHNA GUJJULA

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AGENDA

Templates (Icon, Field type, Field Source, Field Help message, Sorting, Insert options, & Parameter templates)

Layout (Datasource location, Datasource Template, Thumbnail, & Placeholder settings)

Content (Custom Experience Editor button)

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To understand the ways on how can we enhance content author experience.

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TEMPLATES

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TEMPLATE ICONSTemplate Icons help to visually separate semantically

related content items.

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TEMPLATE ICONSTemplate Icons help to visually separate semantically

related content items.

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Image Courtesy: https://sitecorecreative.wordpress.com/2012/07/13/sitecore-icon-selector/

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FIELD TYPE – LIST VS LIST WITH SEARCH• Decide on selecting List or List with Search field,

based on the number of items.

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FIELD TYPE – LIST VS LIST WITH SEARCH• Decide on selecting List or List with Search field,

based on the number of items.

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FIELD DATA SOURCE• Controlling the list of items to be displayed using field

source.• Field source can be set using; Sitecore query, path,

and GUID.

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FIELD DATA SOURCE• Controlling the list of items to be displayed using field

source.• Field source can be set using; Sitecore query, path,

and GUID.

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FIELD-LEVEL HELP MESSAGE

• Help message will give extra information to Content Authors about particular field.

• Sitecore provides the ability to add help information to fields in three ways – using short description, long description, and help link.

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FIELD SORTING• Place most frequently modified fields on top.• By default Sitecore will set sort order to 100 points

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FOLDER TEMPLATES - INSERT OPTIONS • Folder templates are used for the purpose of

organizing a collection of items. (ex: Rendering folder, Template Folder)

• The “insert options” configuration provides that the templates relevant to the folder are immediately available.

• The default folder template for content items is /sitecore/templates/Common/Folder.

• To create a custom folder template, we need to inherit from the default folder template, and then configure with custom insert options.

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PARAMETER TEMPLATES

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• Managing How to content using parameter templates.

• These templates should inherit from /sitecore/templates/System/Layout/Rendering Parameters/Standard Rendering Parameters

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LAYOUT

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RENDERING/SUB-LAYOUT• Improving the usability by restricting data source

location, selectable items, and by adding thumbnail.

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PLACEHOLDER SETTINGS Empowering the Experience Editor using placeholder

settings (Allowed Controls).

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EXPERIENCE EDITOR

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CUSTOM EXPERIENCE EDITOR BUTTONS

• Sitecore does not support in-line editing for Checkbox, Multilist, TreeList, and other fields.

• Utilize Edit Frame/Custom Experience buttons for editing item fields not rendered by the FieldRenderer.

• We can find all these buttons in core database, under the /sitecore/Content/Applications/WebEdit item.

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REFERENCES• https://www.cmsbestpractices.com/sitecore-best-practices

/• https://www.geekhive.com/buzz/post/2015/05/how-to-ma

nually-sort-items-in-sitecore-cms/• http://zacharykniebel.com/blog/sitecore/2014/june/26/con

straining-the-sitecore-7-multilist-and-treelist-fields-with-and-without-search

• https://www.geekhive.com/buzz/post/2014/10/how-to-create-folders-in-sitecore-cms/

• https://www.cmsbestpractices.com/how-to-properly-use-sitecore-edit-frames/

• http://blogs.perficient.com/microsoft/2012/12/sitecore-rendering-parameter-templates/

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IMPORTANT SITECORE RESOURCES• https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/• https://sitecorechat.slack.com • https://www.akshaysura.com/sitecore-community-updat

e-mailing-list/• http://www.akshaysura.com/2016/02/03/unofficial-sitec

ore-8-training-webinar-series-full-curriculum/

• Friday Sitecore best practices playlist: https://goo.gl/zf9E9J

• Podcast : https://coresampler.fireside.fm/ • Catching Exceptions: https://goo.gl/tljlKt www.gopigujjula.com20

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THANK YOU!Q&A

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