Glossary of Terms

A

Abridged Editor (RTE): An interface with limited options, that allows a Sitecore User to add HTML formatting to content without needing to know HTML syntax

ADA compliance: Refers to the Americans with Disabilities Act Standards for Accessible Design, which states that all electronic and information technology (like websites) must be accessible to people with disabilities.

Alt Text: An alternative text description read by screen readers to help explain an image to blind and visually impaired users.

Approver: 

Associated Content: The content on a page that originates from another item.

B

Breadcrumb Navigation: A path of the directory structure, appearing on every page, that provides website visitors a way to know where they are within the site and easily navigate backward.

C

Carets: Triangular buttons that reveal additional options or items with that item.

Check Out: Lock content to prevent other Sitecore Users from editing it.: 

Check-In: Unlock content after the editing process to allow other Sitecore Users to access and edit the page or element.: 

Components: 

Content Detail : 

Content Editor: Sitecore editing view that exposes the content via a "back end" Sitecore User interface, e.g. viewing the content in a folder tree structure or detail sections.: 

Content Management System (CMS): A web-based tool that allows users to create and author content for their websites.: 

Content Tree: A visual file structure display of the website content in Sitecore, used to navigate the Content Editor.: 

Control Panel: Password and personal information change location.

D

Documents: Text files created in a program outside the CMS to be added as content. i.e. Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, or graphics program.

Draft: A copy of an existing item able to to edited to replace an item on the live site.

Dynamic List: A component that displays content from different sections of a website, or external links in a list that can be displayed in different components. 

E

Edit Mode: This mode allows the Sitecore User to modify content, but not navigate the website.

Editing Area: The area highlight in Experience Editor that and the Rich Text Editor, where updates to content can be made.

Editors: A Sitecore user role that can update and create new content that is submitted to an approver.

Experience Editor: An editing view that shows content form a "front end" authoring experience. Using the Experience Editor, Users can edit content within the context of the website.: 

External Link: A hyperlink that directs the user to an external website.

F

Feature Item: A page component that contains an image, a title, and a brief description.: 

Full Rich Text Editor (RTE)

G

Grid icon

I

iFrame: An HTML document embedded inside another HTML document on a website. An iFrame allows you to seamlessly display content from other external sources.: 

Images: 

Internal Link: 

intuitive work environment : 

Items

L

Launchpad: 

Left Navigation: A list of hyperlinked topics leading to a specific page or section of the website.: 

Link Cards::

Link List: A page element that contains multiple Internal, External, and Media Links.: 

Links: 

Lock and Edit 

M

Media Library: The area in Sitecore where all images and document files are stored.

Media Link: Links that allow a Website Visitor to access Content Items in the Media Library.

Meta Description: A description of the web page that briefly explains the page’s content. This description can appear in the search engine results under the meta title.

Meta Keywords: Key words on the web page that identifies main points of the page’s content.

Metadata

N

Navigation: 

Navigation Bar: 

News Article Page: A page that displays a listing of news article releases with a date, title, and brief description.: 

Notifications

P

Preview Mode: Within the Experience Platform View, this mode allows the Sitecore User to navigate the website, but not modify content.: 

Publish: Commit changes to the Website to the web, allowing website visitors to view them.: 

Publisher: 

R

Recycle Bin: 

Responsive Design: 

Ribbon Notification: A Sitecore system notice that displays across the top of the screen, usually in red or yellow, with important information.: 

Ribbon Options : 

Rich Text Editor (RTE): An interface that allows a Sitecore User to add HTML formatting to content without needing to know HTML syntax.: 

Right Click

S

Select Media : 

Sitecore Experience Management: 

Sitecore Link, Internal Link: When content is created in Sitecore, it is given a unique ID. When a link is made to Sitecore content, Sitecore will use that unique ID to create the link to the Sitecore

content. This allows Sitecore to manage links so if content is deleted and it is linked to, a warning will be given indicating that the content is currently linked to.

Sitecore User: Generic term for Content Authors, Content Approvers, and System Administrators, referring to functions or features that apply to all roles equally.

Sitecore workspace : 

Sitecore: The content management system selected to house, edit, and manage website content for UConn Health.

Submit

T

Table Wizard: 
Tabs``: 
Tagging: The act of assigning an item such as a document or page or link to one or more existing topics or dynamic lists in order to display that item in multiple areas of the website.: 
Task: A goal that a website visitor has come to UConn Health website to accomplish. Teaser: A summary of the page or document. Adding a teaser provides the viewer with a brief and meaningful summary of a page or document before they select it. Toolbar: Interface in Sitecore with options for editing content or page elements.

U

Upload File: 
URL: 
User, Website Visitor: Member of the public visiting the Agency website.: 
username

V

Validation -Validations are programmatically hard-coded conditions that specify whether the information entered in a field of a web form is a valid value. 

W

Workbox The Workbox gives you an overview of all items that are in workflows and enables you to manage these items.
WORKFLOW A workflow is a series of predefined states that reflect the work processes and procedures for creating web content in your organization.