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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

Centralizing common content using a clone item


A cloning item is a very flexible and well-designed feature of the Sitecore architecture, which allows us to reuse the content of an item or the whole content tree. It can be very useful for both single site and multisite instances for various purposes.

Let's consider a case where we have multiple sites hosted in a Sitecore environment, and we are creating and managing the same duplicate content for each individual site. Here, we will create source items on one site and clone them on another site.

Getting ready

For better understanding, this recipe is explained in the context of multiple sites, but it's not necessary for you to have multiple sites to work on it.

How to do it…

Let's see how to create clone items:

  1. From the Content Editor, select a source item that we need to clone.

  2. From the ribbon in the Configure tab, click on the Clone button in the Clones section. This will open the Clone Item dialog.

  3. In this dialog, select the destination parent item...