sitecore unicorn - synchronize easily
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Synchronize easily
Sitecore Unicorn
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Few words about me• My name is Radek Kozłowski• I’m Senior Sitecore Developer at Coders Center• I work with Sitecore for over 3 years• I really enjoy Sitecore community, so I contribute to it
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> Why do we need serialization?> What is Unicorn?> Why should we use it?> Serialization improvements> Demo
Agenda
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> Moving Sitecore development items between environments
> Templates> Presentational items: layouts, renderings and sublayouts> Setting items
> Populating test/local environments with content from live instances
Why do we need serialization?
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> Sitecore packages> Simple> Error-prone> Suitable for ad-hoc actions and full module packages
Basic approaches
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> Simple serializing items> Default Sitecore mechanism> Need manual action> Very dangerous
Basic approaches
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> Utility that solves the issue of moving items between Sitecore instances.
> Automatically serialize item changes as they are made to Sitecore
> Sitecore items are serialized to files and moved by the repository, insted of error-prone packages
What is Unicorn?
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> Advanced serialization and comparision system for Sitecore
> Complete replacement for the Sitecore serialization format and filesystem organization
> YAML-based serialization formatter> Serialization File System (SFS)
Rainbow
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> Serializing only the needed data> Getting rid of merging conficts> Getting rid of field content-length recalculation
YAML - based serialization formatter
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> Nonessential data - are in YAML comments> Ignoring fields (e.g. __Updated)
YAML - based serialization formatter
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> Human readable file hierarchy> Extremely long item name
support> Unlimited path length support> Stores each included subtree in
its own hierarchy, reducing file name length
> Supports non-unique paths, while keeping it human-readable
Serialization File System (SFS)
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> Solves the problem of moving Sitecore items between instances
> Helps merging changes in Sitecore items> Saves the time of items deployment> Transparent Synch – automated synchronization
Why we should use it
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> Great tool from Hedgehog development
> Focused on user’s choice rather than repository
Something similar? TDS
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> Selecting items from Visual Studio
Something similar? TDS
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> Choosing what to do with changes
Something similar? TDS
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Demo time
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> Extremely good Sitecore module
> Very easy to synchronize> Can automate serialization> Bit harder to configure
than TDS> A lot of improvements
Conclusions
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Thank you My blog: SitecoreCoffee.comTwitter: @Radek_KozlowskiE-mail: [email protected] company’s page: http://coders.center/