Sunday, 16 November 2014

Sitecore Content Tree

Content Tree:


The Content Tree allows viewing the Sitecore system as a tree with child items grouped under their parents. The Content Tree Structure is displayed by default and contains the hierarchy of folders and content records comprising the site. All the content contained in a Sitecore web application is stored in the content tree, with the Content and Media Library items intended for content editors’ use and the Layouts, System and Templates folders aimed at developers and system administrators. Sitecore considers everything within the content tree an item that can be queried using the API; so all pages are items, as are images, PDFs and so on, meaning they can be easily found using this method.





Top items folders in content tree are:

Content :

The Content item folder is where the pages and data for the website are stored, and the structure of these items represents the structure of the website.

Media Library:

The Media Library, accessed with the Media Browser, is used to manage media files (images, PDFs, documents, audio, video, and multimedia) are stored in the Media Library.

Layout :

The Layout item folder is where all the ‘layouts’ for the web application are declared, referencing the location of the file in the web application root. It also contains ‘sublayouts’; partial files that represent the widgets etc. used to create a page. Layouts are combined with multiple sublayouts to build pages, which means widgets can be reused and content editors can swap out one widget for another without developer intervention.

System :

The System item folder is where standard settings for the content editor and the web application are held. For example, if you wanted to add another language to the web application this is where you would do it.

Templates :

The Templates item folder is a where all the template items are stored for the site. Template items are used to describe objects in Sitecore, and specify what fields that object will contain, the content of any standard values and any layouts that are attached to the item

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