#final layout

08/06/2019

final layout 

I find myself frequently explaining the concept of Shared and Final Layouts and how this works with template inheritance in Sitecore. The concept takes a little time to wrap your head around, so I'll try to boil it down to the essentials with the help of a diagram.

The scenario illustrated below is a simple example of inheritance in Sitecore. It has the following structure:

- At the root is a "Base Template" that all of my other templates inherit from.

- One level down is a "Web Page Template" that inherits from "Base Template". All "Web Pages" use this template.

- At the bottom level is my Content item that is an instance of "Web Page Template".

Each of these three templates have a Shared and Final Layout. The blue boxes represent renderings/sublayouts.

So what is happening with the renderings and templates in this scenario? Let's discuss each template individually.

Base Template

We've added rendering "A" to the Shared Layout of the Base Template. Doing this automatically adds this rendering to the Final Layout of the same template. Now, any template that inherits from Base will have Rendering A in both its Shared Layout and Final Layouts by default.

i.e. The Shared Layout of "Web Page Template" is taken from the Final Layout of "Base Template". The Final Layout of "Web Page Template" will default to values of its own Shared Layout.

As such, Rendering A will appear as a control on any items we create by default. We can also set a default datasource for this control in the Base Template. e.g. you have a control in the footer of every page, but want the datasource to be the same on all pages. 

Web Page Template

Rendering B is a special one that we don't want to appear on all items. We can achieve this by adding it to a template that is a child of Base. The Web Page Template in the example has had Rendering B added to the Final Layout.

i.e. Any item that inherits from Web Page Template will now have renderings A and B by default.

Web Page instance (i.e. item in your content tree)

Finally we have our content item that inherits from the Web Page Template. By default it will have Renderings A and B on it.

But what if we want this one instance to be different from the other Web Pages on the website? We can use the Final Layout to override the defaults for this template type.

In this example we have removed Rendering B and added Rendering C on the Final Layout of this item. All other Web Page items will be unaffected, the Final Layout only impacts this one instance.

In Summary

The Shared Layout reflects what we have inherited, the Final Layout reflects our customisation of this.

Project 2 Final Layout!

My final layout can be seen here all together, where I would eventually love to put them up on a wall in a sequential fashion. This really deviated a lot form my original idea which was to put them up in a 3x2 fashion. I changed it because I was thinking very strongly about audience experience here, where I realised the 6x1 layout was more effective for a linear narrative as the audience really moves from left to right. I think the 3x2 layout is more useful for the audience to look downward if there was an unexpected twist, but since this narrative is linear, I wanted the audience to really move from left to right with the linearity of it all. Furthermore, with each image actually being A4 size, they would actually have to move from left to right, increasing the experience of the audience.

Furthermore, with the removal of the 3x2 layout, I didn’t keep the background in combination with each other but rather did a play on colour as you see the scheme moving from blue to red from left to right. Personally, I found it more effective, as you really see the images start to get tied together. 

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