Sitecore Cookbook for Developers

Altering rendering behavior using component properties

Sitecore provides you with different component properties such as data sources, rendering parameters, and so on. By default, the context item becomes data source for the component. By passing data source, we can change the behavior.

In this recipe, we will create a rendering to list products on the products' landing page. We will reuse the rendering on the home page to show a limited number of products with a different look and feel.

Getting ready

In the first chapter, we created the Product Category and Product templates having Common Fields as a base template, which contains fields such as the title, body, and image. Make sure that you created multiple product categories and products inside ...