April 2016
Beginner
338 pages
7h 38m
English
Content preview from Sitecore Cookbook for Developers
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Using a wildcard item to integrate external content
You have learned different ways to render the Sitecore content, but sometimes, we may need to fetch some data from external systems such as an external database, feeds, and so on, and render them on Sitecore.
In this recipe, we will consider an example of pulling news from an external database. On requesting, http://sitecorecookbook/News/2015 will pull news details of the year 2015.
Getting ready
In this recipe, we are pulling news details from an external database. Create a News table, as shown in the following image:
How to do it…
We will see how a wildcard item can support any virtual request on ...