The traditional Sitecore applications were designed for developers and content authors. Sitecore Process Enablement & Accelerator Kit (SPEAK) UI is a third-generation framework introduced in Sitecore 7.2. There are many SPEAK applications in Sitecore such as dashboard pages, list pages, task pages, and others.
In this recipe, we are going to create a SPEAK application that will be helpful to content authors to see all products on one page and allow them to sort products based on different fields. The SPEAK 2.0 framework was released with Sitecore 8.1 but, as it is not stable and changes are expected in it, we will cover these SPEAK recipes in the 1.1 framework itself.
Creating or editing SPEAK applications is not supported in the Content Editor, so we will use the Sitecore Rocks plugin from Visual Studio to prepare this recipe. You can download this plugin from https://goo.gl/hHK6S9.
To list products, we will use the Products...