Using SXA for XM Cloud development

Create and manage headless sites.

Organize your sites in site collections. Adding sites to a site collection lets you share content, components, and layout elements between the sites within the site collection.

Create language versions for your sites.

Create site templates for the XM Cloud dashboard to let users create websites with no programming involved. SXA comes out-of-the box with two site templates: Empty and Basic site.

Use data sources with your components to reuse content across sites and pages.

Enable sharing of content and layout elements between the sites in a site collection.

Create and extend data templates to base new content items on, for example pages.

Define standard values for specific sites to set default field values, settings, and insert options for a data template.

Create page branches as a method to utilize page templates with prepopulated, modifiable text for content authors.

Create your own custom components, or use prebuilt components in the Pages and Experience Editor apps.

Create variants for your components to accommodate different usage scenarios.

Build your own reusable page design elements to give the pages of your website a consistent design and information architecture.

Configure your sites to use the Bootstrap 5 or Tailwind grid systems, or set up a custom grid system.

Redirect URLs or create redirect maps to lead website visitors to relevant content when they have requested a page that no longer exists.

Configure sitemaps to help search engines index the pages of your website.

Configure robots.txt files to tell web crawlers what content to index and what not.

Set SXA-specific caching options.

Configure custom error pages.

Use the SXA PowerShell scripts to automate common tasks.

Configure how SXA-functionality works in Pages and the Experience Editor, for example, the devices available in Pages to simulate what pages look like to website visitors.