Welcome to the Sitecore Ignition Documentation!¶

Ignition is an open source development accelerator designed by the team at Perficient and released to the Sitecore community as a quick-start tool for beginning Sitecore projects. It has two primary components: the Sitecore Information Architecture piece and the .NET MVC Solution. All along the way, the team has set things up so that we’re using best practices for Sitecore development as well as good development practices and patterns. We embrace SOLID, and our code is designed to enable you, the consumer, to quickly extend, add onto, and test your own code.

Please note that Ignition is in beta and may still be a bit rough around the edges. We are diligently adding new features and polish to the project and we happily accept your thoughts, feature requests, and pull requests.

Contents¶

Setup¶

Deploy Project¶

Solution Overview¶

Ignition Solutions¶

Ignition.sln¶

Ignition.Tds.sln¶

Ignition.Core Project¶

Adding Additional Fields Definitions¶

Creating Your Page Structure¶

Ignition.Data Project¶

Global Data Structures¶

Setting up the Search Page Class Structure¶

Ignition.Infrastructure Project¶

Setting up Sitecore Computed Fields¶

Setting up a Token Helper¶

Ignition.Sc Project¶

Components Folder Structure¶

Creating the Models Interface to Map to a Sitecore Template¶

Creating the ViewModel for a Component¶

Using the BaseViewModel¶

###Using the ViewPath Property

Creating a Custom ViewModel¶

Creating the View for a Component¶

Ensuring the View Supports the Experience Editor¶

Creating an Experience Editor View¶

Creating an Agent for a Component¶

Implementing PopulateModel¶

Accessing the Component’s Datasource¶

Setting up and Accessing Rendering Parameters¶

Creating the Rendering Parameter Template¶

Coding the Rendering Parameters Interface¶

Accessing the Rendering Parameter in Code¶

Accessing the Agent Parameters¶

Performing Searches Against Sitecore Items in Code¶

### Other uses for Constants.cs

Creating the Controller for a Component¶

Using the View<> Method¶

Using Only a ViewModel¶

Using a ViewModel and Agent¶

Explicit View Location¶

Ignition.Root Project¶

Sitecore Configuration¶

Ignition.Tests Project¶

Sitecore Structure Mapping to Ignition¶

Ignition and Sitecore Powershell Extensions¶

Contribute¶

Source Code: github.com/sitecoreignition/SitecoreIgnition
Issue Tracker: github.com/sitecoreignition/SitecoreIgnition/issues

Indices and Tables¶

Authors¶

Jon Upchurch (Solution Architect and Lead Developer)
Corey Smith (Architect and Developer)

Copyright and License¶