Learn more. What is difference between site template and site definition? Ask Question. Asked 7 years, 6 months ago. Active 4 years, 4 months ago. Viewed 21k times. So, when we backup a sitecollection, are we backingup the site template or the site definition? Improve this question. Site collection backup isn't a site template or a site definition.. The object is an instance same as a site collection.. I don't have a simple definition that can explain the difference, let someone else share his thoughts on this..
Suppose we create 2 sites. One from site template and another site from site definition. Then does modification to the site def or site template get inherited by the site instance?
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Another important concept in Sitecore is template inheritance. Templates inherit from one or more base templates. A data template, for example, inherits sections and fields from its base templates. When a data template inherits from other templates, all fields are merged. You can find guidelines for template inheritance in the Helix documentation and an example of a template hierarchy in Template Inheritance example. All data templates inherit from the standard template.
The standard template does not contain any fields, but it inherits from a number of other templates. Organize data templates by site. Use easily understood data template names so that when content authors insert a new item and see the name of the data template, they understand what the template is for.
Similarly, give meaningful names to field sections that group similar fields together. Use unique names for fields and field sections because these are merged from the inherited base templates.
Assign icons to data templates that content authors see so that they can easily identify what type of data template an item was created from.
Similarly, assign icons to field sections. Use template inheritance to reduce duplication. Fields that are shared between several data templates can be grouped into base templates and inherited. These sorts of fields can be grouped together as Page Meta Data. For this reason, you can think of a site definition as a family of configurations, although some families contain only one configuration. The following are the four site definitions whose configurations can be used to create new websites.
The following site definitions are also built into SharePoint Foundation, but they cannot be used as the basis for new sites. WIKI provides a site definition configuration for legacy wiki sites that were originally created in an earlier version of SharePoint Foundation.
Because standard site pages on SGS sites are wiki-enabled pages, users do not have to create sites that are specifically for wikis. Site definition files are cached in memory on the server when first accessed at run time, which improves scalability and performance by reducing unnecessary data storage or retrieval, and by allowing uncustomized pages to be reused across sites.
The information contained in these files is pulled from the cache for each subsequent request. When site pages are customized, excluding browser-based customizations such as modifications to Web Parts, the pages and their contents are stored in the content database. The contents of customized pages are routed through safe mode parsing, which prevents unsafe server-side code from executing, and which depends entirely on the Safe Controls list—specified in the web. The following are the prominent XML files that govern the structure and content of a site definition.
Identify the site definitions and configurations and provide information about how they appear in the user interface UI to users who are creating new websites. Define the navigation areas, specify the list definitions available in the UI, specify document templates and their files, define the base types for lists, and define configurations and modules for site definitions.
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