Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Managing millions of items using an item bucket

Item buckets is a system that lets you store millions of content items in one container so that an item bucket can contain any number of subitems. Sitecore provides you with a rich and scalable UI for bucketed items so that content owners can manage items very easily.

In this recipe, you will learn creating item buckets and searching items from a bucket from the Content Editor.

How to do it…

We will first choose an item that contains a huge number of subitems and maintaining them is getting very difficult for content owners:

1. From the Content Editor, select the /sitecore/Content/Home/Products/Phones item. From the ribbon, click on the Bucket button in the Buckets section from the Configure tab.
2. We now ...