SCORE for Content Administrators

Syllabus

What is a Website (is a set of related web pages)
What is CMS (allows managing pages)
What is Sitecore (Basic modules description). Emphasis on Content Editor and Page Editor
How to login to Sitecore
Navigating the content tree - Content Editor Structure: Tabs/Tree/Working Pane
Page Editor Structure: Tabs/Navigation Panel/Working Pane

Pages/Templates/Branches/Insert options
Creating a content page in PE using template/template in branch
- Defining Page Layout and Content
- Providing analytics, metadata and keywords. open graph tags
Creating Redirect page
reviewing created page in CE
creating page in CE
Manipulating pages
- copying page/duplicating page
- moving page in the hierarchy
- deleting a page
- locking a page
- restricting page from publishing (publish from etc)
Save/Preview/Publish

Component Groups (Navigation, Containers, Collections, and Content)
Components/Placeholders and Fields
Editing Special Field Types
Components types (Collections etc)
- Container hierarchy
Inserting new component
- Selecting a datasource: local vs shared difference
- Changing component style param
- Creating datasource items in CE and using them in PE
Replacing Component with compatible
Moving a component
Snippet ( Header/Footer/Sidebar)
Navigation Components

Advanced Class Topics - Part 2 Optional Topics

Creating your own page types
- updating template in branch
- updating standard values
- updating a template
SCORE DMS Extensions
- Macro-personalization
- Embedding DMS within Snippets and Cascades
Security
Workflow

What is a Website (is a set of related web pages)
What is CMS (allows managing pages)
What is Sitecore (Basic modules description). Emphasis on Content Editor, Page Editor/Media Libary
- Exercise: Login to Sitecore
Content Editor: Tabs/Tree/Working Pane
- Exercise: Exploring CE
Media Library: organization, manage images
- Exercise: Exploring ML
- Exercise: Upload Images
Page Editor: Tabs/Navigation Panel/Working Pane
- Exercise: Exploring PE

Introduction to Pages/Templates/Insert options
Inserting a Page
- - Exercise: Insert a page
Page=components
- Component defintion
- Component groups: purpose
- Structural components
Defining page layout
- Page Layout components
- Placeholders
- Container hierarchy
- - Exercise: Define page layout
Defining Inner structure
- Inner structure components
  - Exercise: Define inner structure
Providing Page Content
- Content components
  - definition
  - types (collections/features/buttons etc
  - Component level vs field level
  - Exercise: Insert new components of different kinds
- Working with component images (uploaded image or create new)
  - Exercise: upload an image in ML from PE
Save/Preview/Publish
- - Exercise: Save/Preview/Publish
Reviewing page in Content Editor
Creating a page in Content Editor
- - Exercise: Create page in Content Editor

Components Classification revision
- Component Groups
- Content Component types
Shared and Local components
- difference
- how to select a datasource
- - Exercise: Insert components (with different datasource locations)
Components options
- Component Fields
- Component Styles
  - Exercise: Change component style
Manipulating components
- Replacing Component with compatible
  - Exercise: Replace component with compatible
- Moving a component
  - Exercise: Move component
- Deleting a component
  - Exercise: Delete component
Components in Content Editor
- Review components in CE
- Manipulating components in CE how affects PE and why should not be done in CE
  - Insert components in CE
  - Delete components in CE

Manipulating Pages

locking a page
- Exercise:
Providing additional information for the page (key words, metadata, open graph tags, analytics)
- Exercise:
creating page in CE
- Exercise:
moving page in the hierarchy
- Exercise:
copying page/duplicating page
- Exercise:
deleting a page
- Exercise:
restricting page from publishing (publish from etc)
- Exercise:
Creating Redirect page
- Exercise: