Sitecore Standard Values

Create the Default Values Needed for your Item Templates and Renderings

Sitecore provides a way to manage a massive content tree of items. One of the fundamental organizational/structural concepts of Sitecore is the data template.

Data Templates

A data template is a blueprint for an item. it defines one or more sections containing one or more data fields.

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Standard Values

Standard values are the mechanism by which you set the default value for any item template. If you have a “blog” item template, you might want the default content for the blog title and content to be a string: “please enter text here” so that content editors know that they should not leave that content field blank. You can accomplish this with standard values.

The way to create standard values for a given template is to:

copy the template item into itself, and name the copy “__Standard Values"

This will leave you with a structure similar to the following:

You then will need to set the Standard values field inside the “advanced” data tab for the parent item, in this case “ContentBlock”