Q) SiteCore Vs SharePoint

Compare SiteCore and SharePoint

Feature SiteCore SharePoint
Platforms Web and iphone Web, Iphone and Andriod
Customers Small, medium and enterprises Small, medium, enterprises and freelancers
Video tutorials along with sitecore supported
Support Phone, online and knowledge base
mediums
Testing A/B testing supported No A/B Testing
Content
Supports content management Supports content management
Management
Provides option to manage customer
Customer feedback No customer experience management
experience
Supports few platforms inclusing popular Almost capable of integrating with many availabl
Integrations
integrations platforms

Q1) What is meant by Sitecore?

Sitecore is a software platform that is good for making and updating full featured and dynamic websites
of every possible type(Implemented in various industry domains and vertical). It has the advantages
of scaling, flexibility and can very well integrate in third party systems, marketing platforms, overall
giving the visitors a very dynamic user experience.

Q2) Would it be possible to avoid anchorlink anchors to be transformed into links by Sitecore?

In Sitecore, text lines don’t have to be transformed into links, but there is another way to make an
anchor. We must put the cursor above the thing that is out anchor’s destination, with no text
highlighting. After that we should click the hyperlink button to make the anchor and then go on with
the rest. This is the right procedure to avoid text transforming into an undesired link.

Q3) What is meant by Item in Sitecore?

An item is a record in database. Items are basic building block of a Sitecore Site. An item mayrepresent
any kind of information, e.g. a piece of content, a media file, a layout etc. Itemsalways have a name
and ID that uniquely identifies the item within the database. Items have atemplate that defines which
fields the item contains. An item represent a single version of pieceof content is a single language.
An item can be retrieved from a database using Items.

Q4) How many databases are associated with Sitecore?

There are in total 3 databases:-

 1. Master
2. Core
3. Web
Q5) What is meant by CMS?

A content management system (CMS) is a PC application that supports the creation and modification
of digital content using a simple interface to extract away low-level points of interest unless required,
typically supporting numerous clients working in a collaborative environment.

Q6) What is meant by page in Sitecore?

There is no physical page in Sitecore or ASPX Web Form page at the end of the day. In Sitecore all
are things from business client planned final product or specific URL in Sitecore may called as Page.
To alter this page utilizing WYSIWYG editor sitecore gives interface called Page Editor.

Q7) What is the significance of the sea watchtower picture that shows up at Sitecore sign in?

This picture shows up that you are not signed into the Content Editor, but rather to the developer tool
to the Desktop. The button from the bottom left corner of the display must be pushed(it has the
“Sitecore” name on it), then we should hot the “Log off” button for coming back to the login part. From
here the login methodology will be normal: we should hit “Content Editor”, insert the user and password
then “Login”.

Q8) What is standard values in Sitecore?

Standard values were first acquainted in Sitecore 5.3 to overcome some of the issues experienced
with the predecessors of standard values – “Masters”. In Sitecore 6 masters was totally evacuated
and the idea of standard values assumed control.
Standard values is a method of having default or fallback values for fields in Sitecore, implying that
when items are created, you can specify a field value that should be used by default. This does
represent custom fields you work, as well as standard fields in Sitecore such as presentations and
insert options. This means that you can specify a value on the standard values, and when you create
a new item which inherits from this template, it will by default use the values specified on the standard
values.

Q9) What are the different tokens supported by Sitecore?

 $name: The name for the new item entered by the user
 $id: The ID of the new item
 $parentid: The ID of the parent of the new item
 $parentname: The name of the parent of the new item
 $date: The system date in yyyyMMdd format
 $time: The system time in HHmmss format
 $now: The system date and time in yyyyMMddTHHmmss format
Q10) What is Incremental Publish in Sitecore?

Every time the content is changed, Sitecore adds it to the publishing queue. When we select the
incremental publish Sitecore will publish only these items which are added to publishing queue.
The contents added/edited programmatically as well as in content editor is will be added to publishing
queue.
Incremental publish are fastest compared to Republish and Smart publish as only the edited contents
gets published.

Q11) Which is the best place for Word and PDF documents?

Word, PDF, Excel, Power Point documents will have their place where the images are which is in the
media library, so they don’t have a particular folder provided by Sitecore, they must be placed
wherever we place the pictures. Though standard practice suggest that we should create appropriate
directory structure within media library before storing any media there.

Q12) How do we implement Sitecore?

Sitecore CMS uses the .NET technology, so if our company is a Microsoft shop, Sitecore will fit great.
Sitecore is better than many other platforms based on .NET like Sharepoint or Opentext.

Pre-implementation
Before we choose Sitecore or any CMS we have to consider our processes and workflows. We must
to see where will we put our content and how will we publish it, what strategy and what architecture
do we have, what needs to be changed etc. After we get answers to these questions (which was not
really easy) we can employ a consultant if we have the required money to help us further.

Implementation
After pre-implementation we have to implement our Sitecore CMS platform. The first phase is gather
our staff and make some training to become certified. Being more than a simple paper, the certification
helps our team to be more in the know of the Sitecore terminology. If this phase is skipped we will
have to do it anyway later ata higher cost so it’s better to save money now.

Q13) What is meant by Layout inSitecore?

Whenever user sends any request to Sitecore through a URL, Sitecore resolves that item by
generatingvisual representation of that item. Layout provide the basic structure of this visual
representation.Layout is container which contains different component of the page.Technically
speaking, your .ASPX page is layout and .ASCX, .CS or .XSLT file is component (user control).