Wednesday, April 16, 2014

Modeling Sitecore Data Templates

Yesterday, one of my best friends asked me, "What is the process you are using to Model sitecore data templates, out of sitecore?"

After that I did some research and came up with the below points.
  • Think sitecore data templates as Object Oriented classes.
  • Use template inheritance as OO Inheritance.
  • Use Class Diagrams to do the initial modeling of data in the site.
  • Think only about the data in the site. Don't think about the design.
  • MS Visio (or any that kind of tool) can be used for draw your initial models

I found following links very useful

http://gettingtoknowsitecore.blogspot.com/2010/01/inheritance-content-modeling-sitecore.html

http://maigruen.netzkern.de/data-modeling-in-sitecore.aspx

http://sdn.sitecore.net/Developer/Fundamental%20Concepts/Template.aspx

http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sdn5/developer/fundamentals.pdf
        2.3 Templates and Field


Please let me know your idea/methodology about this as comments below.