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How does Sitecore support each of the CMS pillars: Data definition, Content, and Presentation? Data definition: templates Content: items Presentation: layouts and components Describe some xWeb Content Management System features that separate Sitecore from other systems Analytics, insight, Decisions, and Automation What is Sitecore's easy-to-use authoring tool and what functionality does it provide? The Experience Editor provides editing and designing functionality What should you define in a template? fields, Field Sections, icons and Base Templates rich text field what field type would you use to store formatted html What happens if you use the same field name in a template that is already used in a parent template? You will get two fields with the same name, which leads to confusion both to users and developers. it should be avoided what is the name of the template all templates should inherit from? Standard Templates it makes it much harder to manage later on Why should you avoid defining the same field multiple times in more than one template? what would you use the Field source for in the following field types: image, Rich Text Field, Droplink? Image: set the folder in the Media library it will open when selecting an image for the field. Rich text: Configuration of the toolbar and functionality of the Rich Text Editor. Droplink: Set the items to be displayed as options. why do you create Standard Values? To be able to define default and initial values Only admins and privileged users will be able to create content (using the insert from template option). What happens if you don't set any insert options? In the Standard Values, so they are applied as a default to newly created items. where should you set insert options as a best practice ? What happens when you set a field as shared? and unversioned? A shared field contains a single version of the data for all versions in all languages. An unversioned field contains one version of data per language When do tokens get replaced? Only when items are created. Theoretically, you should not need to do this as a user why would you need to run a full republish? If you set up some publishing restrictions, will Sitecore automatically publish that content at that exact time? No. the publishing restrictions only dictates when an item or its versions are publishable or not Content for the live website is reading from the Web database and the content that is work-inprogress should be edited in the Master what is the difference between the Master and Web database Should a user work directly in the Web database if they need something to go live immediately? No, users should never have access to Web database directly To break down design into reusable components ask yourself Is the HTML viewed on more than once page? is there the chance that this HTML might be removed or moved by users? Does this HTML act as scaffolding? why would you need to use the data source in a component The data source allows you to build more flexible and reusable components because the data source is determined by users and not hardcoded by developers Can you use placeholders inside of placeholders? Not directly, you can use components inside of placeholders that define other placeholders. Why is it a good idea to avoid using Rich Text fields as much as possible? Because Rich Text fields store html and can break design of site if abused. What do you need to do to allow users to add and remove components from a placeholder using the Experience Editor? Create a Placeholder setting item for that placeholder What happens when you request a page that has no layout defined in the presentation detail? Sitecore shows a Layout not found error page