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Information Architecture in a Helix Era – Part 3 – Outline of the settings type template and content structure

This blog post is a part of a collection of posts about Information Architecture within Sitecore. The blog can be categorized as a “How we do it”, and gives our view about the setup of a flexible information architecture that can be reused in multiple projects.

In the previous post we’ve given an explanation how interface templates in a module are defined and how a page and a datasource template can be constructed from the flexible nature of the interface templates. The table below gives a list of template types that are defined in the Helix architecture:

Information Architecture in a Helix Era – Part 2 – Outline of the module interface templates

This blog post is part of a collection of posts about Information Architecture within Sitecore. The blog can be categorized as a “How we do it”, and gives a view about the setup of a flexible information architecture that can be reused in multiple projects.

In the previous post about this subject, a high-level overview of an information architecture in the Helix context was given. It introduced a granular definition of features. In this post I like to give a more detailed explanation about the setup of the interface templates

Template types

The Helix architecture document gives a set logical template types:

Information Architecture in a Helix Era – Introduction – Initial thoughts about the granularity of the information architecture

This blog post is the first in a collection of posts about Information Architecture within Sitecore. The blog can be categorized as a “How I dit it”, and gives a view about the setup of a flexible information architecture that can be reused in multiple projects.

In 2016, Sitecore introduced a Helix, a document containing the overall design principles applied to a Sitecore project (http://helix.sitecore.net/). Besides this, a demonstration implementation of Sitecore was released, named Habitat (https://github.com/Sitecore/Habitat).

The Helix document covers all aspects of a Sitecore implementation, from Visual Studio project structure to Template definitions, to Rendering implementation. At the time Helix was introduced, I had just set up our own implementation that has similarities with Helix and Habitat: including the separation between foundation, features and projects. However, the solution setup, with the differentiating of the modules in separate projects was a great eye-opener.