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title: "The structure of the Standard template"
slug: "the-structure-of-the-standard-template"
abstract: "Overview of the structure of the Standard template."
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# The structure of the Standard template

The following sections contain details of all the fields in the Standard template. The **Quick Info** section, which is always the first section of a template shown to Administrator and Developer users, is a field section in the Standard template. This field section contains item location details, the template's location in the content structure, and various GUIDs related to storage.

> [!important]
> All fields in the Standard template begin with double underscores. You access these fields through the properties of the `Sitecore.FieldIDs` class.

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<summary><h2>Advanced</h2></summary>

The **Advanced** section associates a data template with its standard values item. It contains the following fields:

- **Standard values** - a link to the *Standard Values* item.
- **Tracking** - analytics profile information.
- **Source** - designates the cloned item.

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<summary><h2>Appearance</h2></summary>

The **Appearance** section controls how the Content Editor displays the item. It contains the following fields:

- **Context Menu** - a link to a menu displayed when a user right-clicks on an item in the Content Editor’s content tree.
- **Display Name** - overrides the item name in the Content Editor.
- **Editor** - defines a custom editor for an item.
- **Editors** - controls the custom editor tabs that appear in the Content Editor.
- **Hidden** - controls whether or not the item is visible in the Content Editor. You can manage the visibility of hidden items by selecting the **Hidden Items** check box on the **View** tab in the Content Editor.
- **Icon** - controls the icon shown in the content tree and in the item header in the Content Editor.
- **Read Only** - controls whether the item appears read-only.
- **Ribbon** - provides a technique to customize the Content Editor ribbon.
- **Skin** - associates formatting information with the item.
- **Sortorder** - used by the system to specify the order in which the fields are displayed.
- **Style** - associates formatting information with the item.
- **Subitems Sorting** - controls the rule used to sort the children of the item.
- **Thumbnail** - associates a thumbnail image with an item.
- **Originator** - indicates the branch template used to create the item.

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<summary><h2>Help</h2></summary>

The **Help** section stores helpful information about the item. It contains the following fields:

- **Help link** - the link to the detailed help for this item.
- **Long description** - the fly-over help shown when hovering the mouse over an item in the content tree.
- **Short description** - the description shown in the item header of the Content Editor.

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<summary><h2>Layout</h2></summary>

The **Layout** section is used primarily to associate the data template with its renderings. It contains the following fields:

- **Renderings** - the presentation components assigned to the item, such as devices, layouts, sublayouts, XSLT Renderings, and placeholder settings.
- **Renderers** - the renderers used to display this item.
- **Presets** - layout presets available for an item

> [!note]
> Managed websites use the Renderings field. Some Sitecore user interface components use the Renderers field.

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<summary><h2>Lifetime</h2></summary>

The **Lifetime** section is used to hold the publication restrictions for individual versions of this item. It contains the following fields:

- **Valid from** - the date from which this version is valid for publication.
- **Valid to** - the date to which this version is valid for publication.
- **Hide version** - controls whether to hide this version from publication.

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<summary><h2>Indexing</h2></summary>

The **Indexing** section is used to configure facets and boost settings. It contains the following fields:

- **Boost Value** - a float boost value, such as *1.0*, *2.3* , or *0.1*. A value higher than zero pushes the results nearer the top of the results. A value lower than zero drags the results down nearer to the bottom.
- **Boosting Rules** - enables you to set rules for boosting. Boosting lets you push an item higher up in the results.
- **Facets** - shows the facets that are displayed when you run a search from this item. Use this field to add or remove the facets that are associated with the item.

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<summary><h2>Insert Options</h2></summary>

The **Insert Options** section is used to hold a set of insert rules and options. It contains the following fields:

- **Insert Rules** - the insert rules.
- **Insert Options** - the insert options.

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<summary><h2>Item Buckets</h2></summary>

The **Item Buckets** section contains settings for items that have been converted to item buckets or made bucketable. It contains the following fields:

- **Bucket Parent Reference** - displays the path to the parent item. If you revert an item bucket or bucketable item, this path is used to restore the connection to the parent item.
- **Is Bucket** - if this check box is selected it means that the item is a bucket. This is a system field and must not be set manually.
- **Bucketable** — select to make an item bucketable.
- **Lock Child Relationship** — if an item has children, this field lets you decide whether the children are added to the bucket or remain as children.
- **Default Bucket Query** - lets you specify a default query that is run when you open the **Search** tab, and displays a list of items that match the results of the query.
- **Persistent Bucket Filter** - lets you add a query to the search field that you cannot remove so it is always part of the search.
- **Enabled Views** - shows which views are enabled for displaying search results. Use this field to add or remove views. There are three views that are globally enabled by default.
- **Default View** - a list of views from which you can choose one to set as the default.
- **Quick Actions** - actions that you can associate with an item when it appears in the search results. For example, download, preview, or publish.

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<summary><h2>Publishing</h2></summary>

The **Publishing** section contains publishing restriction information. It contains the following fields:

- **Publish** - the date from which this item is valid for publication.
- **Unpublish** - the date to which this version is valid for publication.
- **Publishing groups** - the valid publishing targets for the item.
- **Never publish** - controls whether or not an item is published. This field overrides the **Publish** and **Unpublish** fields.

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<summary><h2>Security</h2></summary>

The **Security** section contains the security settings. It contains the following fields:

- **Owner** - the name of the user who is the current owner of the item. For use with the virtual Creator-Owner role.
- **Security** - the security access rights for the item.

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<summary><h2>Statistics</h2></summary>

The **Statistics** section contains the basic creation, revision, and update statistics. It contains the following fields:

- **Created** - the date and time the item was created.
- **Created by** - the name of the user who created the item.
- **Revision** - the revision number, stored as a GUID text string.
- **Updated** - the last date and time that the item was updated.
- **Updated by** - the name of the user who performed the last update.

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<summary><h2>Tagging</h2></summary>

The **Tagging** section contains words or phrases used to make associations between items, making them easier for Sitecore search to find. It contains the following field:

- **Semantics** - lets you enter a word or phrase to use as a tag.

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<summary><h2>Tasks</h2></summary>

The **Tasks** section contains reminder information for associated tasks and to store an archive date. It contains the following fields:

- **Archive date** - the date the item will be archived.
- **Reminder date** - the date when a reminder email message will be sent to the reminder recipients.
- **Reminder recipients** - the email address(es) of the recipients of the reminder, separated by a semi colon (;).
- **Reminder text** - the text of the reminder email message.

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<summary><h2>Validation rules</h2></summary>

The **Validation rules** section contains the validation rules. It contains the following fields:

- **Quick Action Bar Validation Rules** - the item validation rules displayed in the Quick Action Bar.
- **Validation Button Validation Rules** - the item validation rules used by the **Validation** button in the Content Tree, on the **Review** tab, in the **Proofing** group.
- **Validation Bar Validation Rules** - the item validation rules displayed in the Validation Bar on the right of the Content Editor.
- **Workflow Validation Rules** - the item validation rules that are used in workflow validation.
- **Suppressed Validation Rules** - disables global item validation rules.

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<summary><h2>Workflow</h2></summary>

The **Workflow** section contains the workflow status information.

- **Workflow** - the workflow that the item is in.
- **Workflow State** - the current workflow state the item is in.
- **Lock** - information about whether the item is locked, who locked it, and what date/time it was locked.
- **Default workflow** - information about the default workflow for items created from this template.

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