Questions tagged [templates]
Questions about working with Sitecore templates - base templates, data templates, field sources, ...
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Templatized Personalization that is configurable by content authors
I have clients who would like to put personalization on components that exist on a multitude of pages, like a side bar on thought leadership or news, to get the most visibility of the personalization. ...
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Enforce Site-Wide Alternate Text Validation On General Link Fields
I am working on Sitecore version 9.1. When attempting to insert a link using the general link field, the user is prompted to enter the following information:
In an effort to enforce accessibility on ...
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How to get Sitecore template branches to use default language?
We are trying to use Sitecore template branches to create templates for different pages, i.e. "About us", "Contact", "Faq" etc. In that way, we hope to ease the job of the Sitecore editor, when they ...
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page template and his base template instance items
I have an Item in Sitecore, and I know it's derived from a certain base template. I have that base template ID, but I want to get the instance of this base template that is part of my page. I want it ...
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Get attached Datasource field value in the rendering template
There is a rendering parameter template Background Properties and it has a field Background Class.
Rendering Parameter Template (Background Properties)
-Field (Background Class)
When rendering ...
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How do I create datasource for field type Name Value List?
I feel like I'm missing something obvious - but I want to use the Name Value List field type so the user can select from a list of values. How/where do I create the dynamic values that would populate ...
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Setting subitem sorting value on Template?
Using Sitecore 9.1.1 SXA 1.8.1.
I have a page type where I want its children to always be sorted in reverse.
I know that I can select the page and apply the sorting that way:
I was hoping I could ...
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Base Templates are deployed without any language version
We have very bizare issue with our deployment.
Project contains of multiple templates and we recently (couple of months ago) introduced couple of base templates.
We have prefixed them with underscore,...
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Component disappears from Allowed Renderings in Experience Editor upon changing Parameters Template for a Rendering
Just wanted to know if anyone has experienced this before or has an idea as to where things may have gone wrong
Have an existing Sitecore module where updating the rendering parameters template to ...
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Is it possible to inherit insert options from multiple base templates?
I'm trying to inherit insert options from two templates. I created a template item and set both of the templates as base templates in the Data section. However, only the first base templates insert ...
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Is there a pipeline/processor or way to have dynamic Field Titles for fields shared across multiple templates?
Preamble:
Sitecore supports having content editors see a customized field title, however this field title is shared across every item that inherits this item.
For Image Fields I'd like to indicate ...
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Sitecore Standard Comment Template Required for Certain roles
I am trying to set up Standard Comment Template for the workflow of publishing from the Review Tab to be required for X roles.
Currently I cannot even find how to make the Standard Comment Template ...
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Standard template fields not showing in inherited templates
I have created a template which inherits the standard template. Then I created an item using this template but the item not showing any fields from the standard template. Is there anything more I need ...
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Template id not getting set using glassmapper _sitecoreContext.GetCurrentItem
I have an item item1 in sitecore with redering rendering1 in its presentation details. The rendering rendering1 has its datasource and is a controller rendering. The datasource of the rendering one ...
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Patching links for a branch template used in a SXA module
During the scaffolding of a site we want to add additional items using a SXA module. These additional items have a lot of link fields in them such as general links.
To avoid writing a lot of ...
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Enabling Item Language Fallback for SXA component datasources
In our Sitecore instance we have a number of different languages, and we have enabled item level language fallback. We have enabled item level fallback on all of our page templates, and this works as ...
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Bucket search based on branch template name
I am trying to add a custom bucket search type by branch template name. However due to limited documentation I am not able to find out how to do this. I have added a custom search type but it does not ...
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Is it possible to link all contents of a media folder on a page?
New to working with sitecore, and not really sure if what I'm looking into trying to do is even possible. I certainly can't figure it out myself.
In short, I want a page which will list all the ...
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Sitecore populating date field with yesterday's date via $date token
I have a date field in one of my templates who's default value is $date. When I create an item using that template, the raw value is 20190522Z, but when I view it not raw I see it as yesterday's date ...
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Sorting Template Sections from inherited Base Templates
Sitecore 9.1 installation.
I have a template called Person.
This template has a number of Sections defined in the Template itself, and some that are inherited from Base Templates.
One said Base ...
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What is the most basic kind of item/template that can exist in Sitecore?
I have a need to store simple string values in the Sitecore content tree. I am thinking i'd like to create the most basic kind of Sitecore item with the least amount of fields. But, if I select [...
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What is the importance of setting up icons on templates [closed]
I was looking up what the competencies are for Sitecore 9.1 examination and stumbled upon this blog where one of the stated competencies under Templates is as followed:
State the importance of ...
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Inherit child template to the parent template using Powershell
I have 2 templates:
Template A: PersonalTemplate
Template B: PrivateTemplate
Here I want to inherit Template B in Template A using the PowerShell script.
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MultiList with Search not showing items for non-admins
There is a related item that suggests providing read access to /sitecore/system/Settings/Buckets/Item Buckets Settings, which I've done. That at least removes the loading icon from the left shuttle ...
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How to bulk-create template items automatically?
In Sitecore project, how would you bulk-create template items?
What we usually do is to write internal-design document, which defines Item Name, Item Path, Section Name, and Field Name in Excel ...
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Any way to filter a treelist with just the source property of the template field?
I have a treelist that I'm pointing at a folder for items, which works fine, but when I attach some kind of filtering clause, like /*[@@tid='{ID}'] it just defaults to the root of the sitecore content ...
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Multiple queries for a droplink - removing duplicates
So, I have multiple organizations content on my site, they are all grouped into a regional content area, and I also have a global content area. One of my templates looks into a folder that has a ...
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Right Click on media library folder does not offer Upload File option
I have a user that has create permissions for certain folders in the media library, but when I log in as that user and right-click on the folder, all I see is the create folder option. If I click on ...
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Default value “choose…” for droplist
This is what I'm looking for: I have a droplist item that is looking in a particular folder for values to include. However, I would like to specify a default of "Choose..."
Is it possible to do ...
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How do I create a template that contains proprietary components? [closed]
I need some advice about creating a template. I need to create a template with all the components on the page, each component has to be unique and not related to another copy (asides from header, ...
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How to make a empty field behave like a null field value when it comes to standard values?
By default, standard values are only applied to a template field if its value is null.
I heard during the Sitecore Developer Foundation training that we can configure it so that an empty field would ...
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Is it possible to create sub-sections within your field sections?
Is there a way to create sections within your field sections?
- Field Section
- Field
For example I would like the following template setup to be like this:
- Header
- Header Title
- ...
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Rendering cloning | item fields are not as per their template
Environment: Sitecore 9.0.2 + SXA 1.7.1
What I am doing:
The field labels of the inbuilt templates and renderings provided by SXA were not compatible with my requirement. So, I started with creating ...
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Checking for a checkbox rendering parameter value in view
I have a view that works fine to display rendering parameters for a title and body of a widget, however, I've added a checkbox field to the rendering items for that template and when I try to use it ...
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Is it okay to add fields to Standard Template or add Base Templates to it?
I would like to add a field to all of my templates. The easiest approach appears to be to either
Add the field directly to Standard Templates (/sitecore/templates/System/Templates/Standard template) ...
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xpath query as souce for image or file field
I continue to get a Value Cannot Be Null error when clicking on Open File or Browse for a File/Image field I'm trying to point to a specific folder. Here's the problem. The folder is in a part of ...
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Can you prepopulate an image field with an existing image?
It seems like you can do this via the Default Value item in the field properties but when I add the path to the image I want, and then create an item with that template, it doesn't show that image. ...
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Not seeing insert options for user
I'm trying to set up a new set of users with roles. I have them members of a couple of different roles that inherit from sitecore roles, including Author, Designer, Sitecore Client Designer and ...
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How to edit the insert options for existing content using that template?
I'm VERY new to Sitecore so forgive me, if this question doesn't make any sense.
I've added an insert option to the __StandardValues of a template. I expect the content using this template to have ...
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Data loss after changing template fields to shared
I am facing data loss in our Testing server after making some template fields Shared. However, in my development machine, I still have all the values for those Shared fields which I have lost in the ...
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Template inheritance - how to resolve duplicate usage
Some time ago my team and I decided to break out some often-used fields into components that can be inherited, a Heading field being one of them. We put the Heading field into it's own template and ...
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Sitecore Template fields based on another template
I am creating a template in Sitecore 9 with following fields.
Title - single line text field
Description - multi line field
Now, I want to add 2 image fields but their type is not Image, they are ...
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Relative datasource for template field
I have created a branch template [Comparison Chart] which contains a folder item called [Headers] which is designed to contain items of the template [CChart Header].
Inside the [Comparison Chart] ...
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Different Field source for different Language
Is it possible to assign different field source for the different language?
For example, I have a sample template in with samplefield.
samplefield has a field source as /sitecore/content/Home-en ...
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How to setup child templates by default
I'm trying to see if I can setup child templates, on a given parent template, that would show up every time the parent template is used to create an item. I tried adding the child templates to the ...
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Inheriting bucketable template
The plan is my bucket to have different templates that need to be bucketable let's say 10 templates, Can I just create a 1 bucketable template and inherit it for the other 10 templates so they can be ...
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How to show template name in rendering variant?
I have a template and i want to show the template name in the rendering variant.
I have tried to add a "field" type to the variant, and set its name to "template", but that didn't work.
I have tried ...
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Multiple fields with the same name in Habitat
In Habitat, I defined two templates: _idenity and _footer, and each of them has the same field name but different ID values,for example IDA and IDB.
The start root item inherits both these templates.
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Reversed Insert Options
Has anyone implemented a feature like Reversed Insert Options? Meaning a template should know where it should be added as an Insert Option rather than what it can add?
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Can I modify Standard Values variables, such as $name, to be all lowercase?
The use-case for this situation is that I want to use the $name of the item to populate a text field for CSS class. Example:
bg-$name
Since this is for a CSS class, I want it to be lowercase, but ...
