Sitecore Alias Item?

What is Alias Item in Sitecore?

Alternative name for any page item. Like for a site, user wanted to browse page as sample. And from sitecore CMS as a developer created sample alias which will linked to Home Item.

So when sample page will be browsed, it will open home item of site.

By default Alias item are for Single language. At the time of creating alias, put the language name in field Linked Language.


How to create Alias Item in Sitecore?

To create alias item, Go to Sitecore/System tree and under the alias folder will create alias items. Below is the screenshot for path.

Some time created alias are not working, in this case find below setting

<setting name="AliasesActive" value="true" />

How to Retrieve all created Alias items using DB query?

By default all the Alias items are stored in Items Table.

SELECT * FROM [dbo].[Items]  

What is GDPR?

What is GDPR?

• European Union Parliament approved law on 14th April 2016 and declared enforcement date as 25th May 2018.
• GDPR is General Data Protection Regulation is the biggest change in data privacy. 
• Actually the key thing of GDPR is to give customer control to their data collected by company.
• You will be surprised to know that if company breach the rules then have to pay 4% of total Global turnover.
• Now Each organization will have Data Protection Officer. And it's standardization of the process across EU.

Key Policis of GDPR:

• Now company can't ask for unnecessary data from customer.
• For Customer(age under 16) a person holding "parental responsibility" must opt in to data collection on their behalf.
• Now Companies have to notify their data protection authority about a data breach within 72 hours of first becoming aware of it.
• Customer will be able to access personal data which is stored by companies and can find out where and for what purpose it is being used.
• And now Customer will also have option of "right to be forgotten".
• Customer will have also right that whoever is controlling your data to erase it and potentially stop third parties processing it. 

Why GDPR?

For Customer and Company both have:

• Right to be informed
• Right of access
• Right to rectification
• Right to erasure
• Right to object
• Right to restrict processing
• Right to data portability
• Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling

Benefits of using GDPR?

• More Accurate Data
• Better Decision Making
• Better Data security
• Reduced Maintenance Cost
• Improved Business Reputation
• Minimized security Incident
• Additional care on sensitive data
• Data breaches Regulation
• Customer retention and loyalty
• Increased alignment with evolving technology

In next blog post will focus on Sitecore GDPR...