Content Hub ONE

Last month (24th-25th Aug, 2023) I got the opportunity to attend and present at Sitecore User Group Conference India (SUGCON) 2023 event at The Grand, New Delhi.

The event was very well organized and Kudos to the organizers and community for giving us this wonderful learning experience. It was two days full of Sitecore Excellence.

Day 1 (24th Aug, 2023) started with the Paid training on “Introduction to XM Cloud Pages”, it was an informative and great 2 hrs session (8 AM-10 AM) to start your SUGCON. I also attended this session and found it really useful.

SUGCON India 2023 Agenda

Agenda was quite impressive and there were sessions related to Headless, XM Cloud, GraphQL etc, It wasn’t possible to attend all the sessions as there were multiple sessions running in parallel, but we tried to attend and get an overview from most of the sessions as much as possible.

Full agenda can be checked here- https://india.sugcon.events/Agenda

Some of the snapshots:

Finally…About Our Session: 🙂

I along with my Colleague Sandeep Bhatia also got the opportunity to present and share our learnings with the community around Sitecore Connect.

Session Agenda : Weddings in the Cloud with Sitecore Connect!

Introduction
- Why Use Connect
Connect Portal
- Building Blocks
- Using Webhooks
Demo
- Workflow
- Custom Connector
- Connector Types

Here are some of the data points from our Session:

Composable DXP Architecture and where Sitecore Connect fits in.
Why should we go with Sitecore Connect for e.g. Built In Integrations, Analytics, Automaton Friendly etc. are some of the supporting reasons.
Introduction to Connect Portal.
Introduction and Understanding of Sitecore Connect Building Blocks which includes:
- Connections
- Recipes
- Triggers and
- Actions

Demo Time:

As part of demo, we used Sitecore Connect low-code/no-code approach to Sync data between Sitecore and Sitecore Content Hub One leveraging Sitecore Webhooks.

In addition to that, we also discussed how we can create custom connectors when there are no connector(s) available to facilitate Integration between two Systems.

Some of the snapshots from our session 🙂

Overall, it was a wonderful experience for all Sitecore enthusiasts to share and learn and at the same time do some networking within the community.

At last I would like to thank all the organizers for organizing this very own event and making it a success, looking forward for the next one.

Happy Learning 🙂

Recently I got the opportunity to explore Sitecore Content Hub ONE while working on one of the POC, so ,thought of sharing how you can get started and create your first content in Content Hub ONE.

In this post we are going to talk about Sitecore Content Hub ONE Introduction and how to create our first content in Content Hub ONE platform, in the coming posts we will explore and see how we can leverage Content Hub ONE to deliver multichannel experiences via preview and delivery APIs.

What is Sitecore Content Hub ONE?

Sitecore Content Hub ONE is a cloud-native, agile headless Content Management System (CMS), for developers and marketers to efficiently launch centrally managed, reusable omnichannel experiences.

With Content Hub ONE, you can quickly model, author and deliver content of any type, for any channel. Business users can manage content using a simple modern user interface, while developers can make use of comprehensive APIs and SDKs to create and deliver omnichannel experiences.

We have preview and delivery APIs available to consume data across multiple channels and touch points and also helps brand organize content in centrally cloud managed system.

Features of Sitecore Content Hub ONE

Some of the features Content Hub ONE provides are:

User Interface for creating structured and modular content.
User focused Content Authoring Experience.
Preview and Delivery GraphQL API delivered through Sitecore Experience Edge.
SDK for developers to leverage a rich set of developer tools.
Command line interface (CLI) to serialize and source control content and content types
Media Management

How to access Sitecore Content Hub ONE?

If you have access to Sitecore Cloud Portal you can login there and access all the features of Content Hub ONE, right from creating the content and consuming the content via Preview and Delivery APIs.

Note- If you have access to Sitecore Cloud Portal but not seeing Content Hub ONE, in this case, you can reach out to your Sitecore team to get you access to Content Hub ONE and you should be fine.

Sitecore Content Hub ONE Dashboard

After successfully login to Cloud Portal and Content Hub ONE App we get different options.

Options include to:

Model your content (Creating content types)
Create your content (Creating content based on types available)
Upload media items and
Consuming content across channel(s).

How to Create Content type:

On the Content types page, we see the exiting content types and also option to create new content type, In order to create a new content type just click on “Add type” button on the right and start creating the content type.

Just fill in the required details like Name and proceed to add fields to this content type, you can add as many fields your content type demands based on the field types available.

In this case, we are going to add content type called “Product” with EAN as one of the field to it.

We have different fields types available like Simple line text, Rich Text, Number and so on.. as we can see here, field types available here are not as rich as we see in Sitecore, but, we can expect this list to grow in future.

Once you are done with adding fields, just click on save and your content type is ready.

How to Create Content:

Once we have content type ready to create content from, we can proceed creating content items.

Navigate to Content page and click on “Add content” to start adding content based on the selected content type. Once you click on “Add content” you need to select the content type and then you will be presented with the UI with all fields which are available for that specific content type.

In this case, we can see we added “EAN” as one of the field for “Product” content type and that’s what is presented while creating product content.