Sean Holmesby

.NET and Sitecore Developer

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Presentation Details Changes in Sitecore 8 – How Renderings are Stored with Versioned Layouts

Sitecore 8 has changed the way renderings on a page are stored on an item. A page’s full presentation can now be updated (hopefully through the Experience Editor) for an individual version…meaning those changes can go through workflow to be approved. It also means layout changes can be rolled back to previous versions easily.

Note: Screenshots and investigation for this post has been done using the Sitecore 8 Technical Preview handed to Sitecore MVPs. The final result may change for the initial release of Sitecore 8.

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Sitecore Rocks: Presentation with the Layout Designer

I originally published this post on the Igloo blog.

Recently I’ve been attempting to setup pages by adding sublayouts and renderings through the interface in Sitecore Rocks. I thought I’d share some of my experiences.

Note: When explaining my findings here I am referring how Sitecore Rocks deals with presentation settings in version 0.7.15.3. These features may change in future versions.

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