Sitecore Data Reuse Links

I will be presenting a talk on Data Reuse for the Sitecore Users Virtual Group tomorrow, Wednesday February 15 at Noon Eastern time. I'll be reviewing the options that Sitecore offers for data reuse: aliases, proxies, clones, wildcards, and pipeline handlers. I'll post a link to a video when it is available; in the meantime, I thought it would be useful to post the "Further Reading" links here:

Overview

• http://sdn.sitecore.net/upload/sitecore6/64/reusing_and_sharing_data-usletter.pdf
• http://adeneys.wordpress.com/2011/07/01/virtual-items-in-sitecore/

Aliases

• Creating a canonical URL: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6919116/how-to-check-whether-sitecore-item-is-using-alias
• Chaging implementation to 301 redirect: http://nataliesitecore.blogspot.com/2011/04/adding-301-redirection-to-sitecore.html

Canonical Links:

• http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2009/02/specify-your-canonical.html
• http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/questions/22137/how-to-use-rel-canonical-with-sitecore-aliases

Publishing Options

• This article was helpful in explaining the difference between Smart and Incremental publishing. http://sitecorebasics.wordpress.com/2011/05/22/basics-of-sitecore-publishing-modes/

Proxies

• http://sdn.sitecore.net/Articles/Administration/Using%20Proxy%20Items%20in%205,-d-,3.aspx
• http://intothecore.cassidy.dk/2009/05/working-with-multiple-content-databases.html
• http://dan-explorations.blogspot.com/2011/11/creating-gutter-icon-for-proxies.html

Clones

• http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/John-West-Sitecore-Blog/Posts/2010/10/Sitecore-CMS-6-4-Cloning.aspx
• Stack Overflow discussions:  http://stackoverflow.com/search?q=%5Bsitecore%5D+clone

Wildcards

• http://larsnielsen.blogspirit.com/archive/2007/01/09/sitecore-avoiding-query-string-in-dynamic-url.html
• http://www.sitecore.net/Community/Technical-Blogs/Getting-to-Know-Sitecore/Posts/2011/09/Wildcards-and-Data-Driven-URLs.aspx

Pipelines and Data Providers

• http://blog.capaxsolutions.co.uk/2010/06/09/sitecore-item-mirroring-making-an-item-appear-in-more-than-one-place/