By admin • May 2, 2021
In my previous company, I was requested to help new team members getting knowing Sitecore. Most of the newcomers are never worked with CMS before, specially Front-End developers and QA team, and the training need to cover basics, so they can become more familiar with Sitecore.
So I created agenda what topics need to be covered for someone, who never work with Sitecore before. You can use this list to have structured plan how to start study.
- Installing Sitecore
- Three Databases (core, master, web)
- Basic Installation Scenarios
- Development environment
Content Management (CM) instance
Content Delivery (CD) instance - Deployment in Sitecore
Deployment options - Sitecore Admin Pages
Most used pages - Sitecore Backend
Login
Sitecore Desktop
Switch databases
Control panel
Rebuild indexes - System components
Website folder
License file
Logs
Connection strings - Experience editor
Editing
Designing
Publishing - Content Editor
Content Tree
Locked items
Publish
Republish
Smart publish
Preview Page
Ribbon - Templates
Template manager
What is an item?
How are an item’s fields defined?
Template standard values
Default values
Insert Options
Layout Details - Difference between Data template and Standard Value item
Inheritance - Versioned vs Shared vs Unversioned fields in Sitecore
- Versioned layouts - Shared and final layout
Shared Layout
Final Layout - Standard values' presentation details + item's presentation details
- Layouts, Sublayouts , Renderings
Layouts
Sublayouts
Renderings
Placeholder - Users and Roles
Users
Roles - Security editor
- Workflow
