Sitecore Content Serialization configuration reference

The Sitecore Content Serialization (SCS) system uses a set of properties to determine what and how content items in a Sitecore instance are influenced by the serialization commands.

Include properties

The include properties:

Property	Required	Valid values	Default value
name	Yes	String	None
path	Yes	String	None
scope	No	SingleItem, ItemAndChildren, ItemAndDescendants, and DescendantsOnly.	ItemAndDescendants
database	No	master	master
maxRelativePathLength	No	Number	130
allowedPushOperations	No	CreateOnly, CreateAndUpdate, and CreateUpdateAndDelete	CreateUpdateAndDelete

Note

Duplicate item names on the same level are not supported by the CLI, even if such items are under ignored nodes.

Scope

The scope property configures what content items are influenced:

Scope	Content items influenced
SingleItem	Only the content item.
ItemAndChildren	The content item and its immediate children.
ItemAndDescendants	The content item and all its descendants.
DescendantsOnly	Only the descendants of the content item.
Ignored	All children and descendants are ignored except those previously matched.ImportantOnly valid in rules. Not valid in includes.

Allowed push operations

The allowedPushOperations property configures how content items can be influenced when pushed to your Sitecore instance:

Content item in file system?	Content item in instance?	CreateOnly	CreateAndUpdate	CreateUpdateAndDelete
Yes	No	Create item	Create item	Create item
Yes	Yes	Ignore item	Update item	Update item
No	Yes	Ignore item	Ignore item	Delete item

Rules

The rule properties:

Property	Required	Allowed values	Default value
path	Yes	String	None
scope	Yes	Ignored, SingleItem, ItemAndChildren, and ItemAndDescendants	None
alias	No	String	None
allowedPushOperations	No	CreateOnly, CreateAndUpdate, and CreateUpdateAndDelete	Inherited from parent

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