Understanding Sitecore Experience Platform

Understanding
Sitecore Experience
Platform
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Module Objectives
By the end of this module, you will be able to:

 Explain the purpose of the Sitecore Experience
Platform
 Summarize the benefits of using the Sitecore
Experience Platform
 Describe Sitecore Experience Management
 Define an item
 Describe how Sitecore organizes items
 List the two types of numbering
 Explain the purpose of publishing
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Discovering the Sitecore Experience Platform
What Is Sitecore Experience Platform (XP)?
Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) is the

combination of Sitecore Experience
Management (xManagement), Experience
Database (xDB), Experience Analytics
(xAnalytics), and Federated Experience Manager
(FXM).
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What Is Sitecore Experience Management?
Sitecore Experience Management

(xManagement) is a feature that enables you to
run Sitecore as a Web Content Management
(WCM) platform without using the entire
Sitecore Experience Platform and xDB.
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Why Sitecore xManagement?
Here are some of the benefits of using Sitecore xManagement:

 Structures, organizes and manages versions of content
 Separates content from presentation
 Separates work in progress from live content
 Browser-based user interface
 Easily creates and manages your web content
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Sitecore Structures Content as Items
What Is an Item in Sitecore?

 An addressable unit of content
 Consists of definable fields: text,
images and links
 Content authors create and
edit items
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The Content Tree Organizes Items
How items are organized in the Sitecore content tree:

 Items are organized into a hierarchy
 This hierarchy of organized items is the content tree
 An Item path specifies the location in the content tree
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Item Versioning
In Sitecore, language versions include:

 Unlimited language versioning of items
 Language and culture support
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Item Versioning
In Sitecore, numbered versions can be:

 Created per language version
 Created manually
 Automated with workflows
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Sitecore Separates Content from Presentation
Business users create Developers and Front-end-

and edit content Developers focus on presentation
Sitecore combines content with

presentation with each request
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How Does Sitecore Know Which Page to Show?
Visitors make HTTP requests for

Items, not files.
The URL points to an item in the content
tree, such as:
 The Cycling Events page aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
 The Skiing Events page
 The News page
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Information Architecture
Why is information architecture important?

 Information architecture (IA) defines the structures, types, relations, and other
aspects of the data
 The architecture of site often mirrors the content tree, but sometimes it does not
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Sitecore Separates Work in Progress from Live
Work in progress website Live site for website visitors

for content editors
Sitecore Publishing copies “publishable”

Items from the Master to the Web database
Master database Web database

Work in progress website for content Live site for website visitors
authors
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Browser-Based Interface
Viewing the Website as a Visitor
Demo 1.1: Browsing the Website
as a Visitor
In this demo, you will be using the Adventure
Company site and browsing the website as a
visitor.
Lab 1.1: Browsing the
Website as a Visitor
In this lab, you will browse the Adventure
Company website as a visitor.
Review Questions
Q1: What type of system is Sitecore Experience Management?

A1: Sitecore Experience Management (xManagement) is a feature that enables you to
run Sitecore as a Web Content Management (WCM) platform without using the entire
Sitecore Experience Platform and xDB.
Q2: What is an item?
A2: An item is addressable unit of content. Addressable means that the item has a path
in the Sitecore Content Tree.
Q3: How does Sitecore organize content?
A3: Sitecore organizes content as individual units of content called items. Items are
organized into a hierarchy in the content tree. Items usually have definable fields.
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Review Questions
Q4: What two types of versioning does Sitecore support?

A4: Sitecore supports an unlimited number of languages. Sitecore supports numbered
versioning for each item language version.
Q5: What process copies content from the Work in progress site to the Live site?
A5: Sitecore publishes items from the Work in progress site to the Live site.
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Module Summary
When you begin to work on your Sitecore instance:

 Browse your new website as if you were visiting the website for first time
 Look at the structure of the website, its content and the headings that have been
reused on different pages
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By the end of this module, you will be able to:

Sitecore Experience Platform (XP) is the

Sitecore Experience Management

Here are some of the benefits of using Sitecore xManagement:

 Separates content from presentation

 Separates work in progress from live content

 Browser-based user interface

 Easily creates and manages your web content

What Is an Item in Sitecore?

How items are organized in the Sitecore content tree:

In Sitecore, language versions include:

In Sitecore, numbered versions can be:

Business users create Developers and Front-end-

Sitecore combines content with

Visitors make HTTP requests for

Why is information architecture important?

Work in progress website Live site for website visitors

Sitecore Publishing copies “publishable”

Master database Web database

Q1: What type of system is Sitecore Experience Management?

Q4: What two types of versioning does Sitecore support?

When you begin to work on your Sitecore instance:

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