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I am creating a custom data provider to integration news articles from an external API into a Sitecore solution.

The external data source has a large amount of news articles though, so I would like to bucket the items in the Sitecore content tree.

How would I achieve this?

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  • And you're sure you want to source this content via a Data Provider? as opposed to say; an integration run - importing the content on a schedule?
    – Mark Cassidy ♦
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:10
  • What would the benefit be over Data Provider (except for taking the load off the external API)? From what i have read on the topic, Sitecore should not be used as a data store for external data.
    – Kasper
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:14
  • Is there any way you can logically split the news articles up from your external API? e.g. Can you page the results? Or get them by date etc?
    – Owen Niblock
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:34
  • Yes, the API supports paging and search by a range of different criteria.
    – Kasper
    Oct 4, 2016 at 9:38

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Your root item (probably a real Sitecore item) has to be set as a bucket. For your child items (the virtual ones from your provider), you need to set the Is Bucketable value to true on the 'Standard Values' of the template (so not on the template itself).

Definitively read this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/36692431/display-items-in-bucket-with-sitecore-data-provider as well as it covers your question.

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