Sitecore Basics

Few concepts covered as part of Sitecore Certification preparation:

The Sitecore Role Manager is used for following purposes:

1. Create a role

2. You can assign group access rights through a role

3. You can assign one or more user accounts to a role (Members button)

Note that this button can assign roles as well as user accounts to a role

4. You can assign a role to another role (Member Of button)

5. Delete a role (does not remove access rights associated only removes associations)

https://doc.sitecore.com/en/developers/90/platform-administration-and-architecture/create-and-set-up-a-role.html

Types of Sitecore Domains:

- Extranet: Although the name might sound external system users, this is nothing but domain for visitors

- Sitecore

- Default

https://doc.sitecore.com/en/developers/90/platform-administration-and-architecture/security-domains.html

Sitecore (ASP.NET) Rendering Host:

1. Visitor sends request for the web application to the web server

2. Web Server invokes Rendering Host to put together the (SSG) web application

3. Rendering Host takes help of Headless Service (HS) and HS goes to Sitecore and gets presentation and content

4. Since the web application code is written using asp.net rendering sdk and FED assets, rendering host takes these from web server apart from the Sitecore model provided by HS

5. Rendering Host packages 3 and 4 then responds the user with the (SSG) web application

6. Next time when the user makes a fresh request, the rendering host handles the request since it has up-to-date web site under its control

7. This results in faster visitor serving time

https://doc.sitecore.com/en/developers/100/developer-tools/sitecore-headless-development-conceptual-overview.html

Shared vs Final Layout or Versioned Layout:

https://ankitjoshi2409.wordpress.com/2017/02/06/sitecore-shared-vs-final-layouts/

Sitecore Support Package:

https://neilkillen.com/2018/06/28/generate-sitecore-support-package-via-admin-tools/