Into The Cloud

Great! How can I get started?

Let’s start with some basics. And a few assumptions. I am on Windows 10 Pro build 1903.

But what is it?

It’s a quality of life enhancemment. While I do not encourage it, I’ve often been met with questions like these: “How can I prevent just this field being deployed?” “How can I make sure this configuration value doesn’t get reset to development settings on each sync?” “How can I make sure this field value doesn’t overwrite what the Content Editors entered?” If you’ve been asked (or asked) any of these yourself, this.

Cool. So how do I use it?

Your and nodes now accept a new optional attribute; fieldTransforms. I wanted to keep the configuration very light weight and reasonably intuitive, so that’s all you get. At least for now. If the feature takes off, I’ll look into making something more plug-able and expandable. Field Transforms only affect what gets written into Sitecore.

Nice. What field transforms are available?

Bit of a mixed pot, really. -: Never deploy this field ?: Only deploy this field if there is no value (can be standard value however) in the target field !: Always reset this field (to standard value) These are the 3 I probably see being most useful. But it doesn’t stop here.