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Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By : Yogesh Patel
Book Image

Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

By: Yogesh Patel

Overview of this book

This book will get you started on building rich websites, and customizing user interfaces by creating content management applications quickly. It will give you an insight into web designs and how to customize the Sitecore architecture as per your website's requirements using best practices. Packed with over 70 recipes to help you achieve and solve real-world common tasks, requirements, and the problems of content management, content delivery, and publishing instance environments. It also presents recipes on Sitecore’s backend processes of customizing pipelines, creating custom event handler and media handler, setting hooks and more. Other topics covered include creating a workflow action, publishing sublayouts and media files, securing your environment by customizing user profiles and access rights, boosting search capabilities, optimising performance, scalability and high-availability of Sitecore instances and much more. By the end of this book, you will have be able to add virtually limitless features to your websites by developing and deploying Sitecore efficiently.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Creating vanity URLs for marketing purposes using an alias item


An alias is an alternate path for an item to get accessed or, you can say, a shorter and alternate URL to access an item that has a long URL. It is often called vanity URL when used for marketing purposes. In this recipe, we will create an alias URL for an item.

How to do…

Let's create an alias for a content item:

  1. Open the Content Editor and select a content item. Here, we select the /sitecore/Content/Home/investors/financial-news/2016/25-02-2016 item, which shows the latest trading updates of the company.

  2. From the ribbon in the PRESENTATION tab, click on the Aliases button in the URL section, which will open the Aliases dialog, as shown in the following image:

  3. Enter the name of the alias and click on the Add button. Here, we set it as tradeupdate.

  4. That's it. Now access this item using the alias URL, http://sitecorecookbook/tradeupdate.

How it works…

When you create an item alias, it gets created in the /sitecore/system/Aliases item...