Sitecore Package Designer – Package Project

For many reason we need to create a sitecore package to be installed on another environment; sometimes this package may contains so many items, and in some cases some items will be missed; In this case sitecore provide a great functionality which allowed us to save our packages to be updated later; In this post we will see how we can do this.

Let’s move step by step to see who we can create a sitecore package project using Sitecore package designer and save this package for farther updates later:

• From sitecore desktop click the start then development tools and from their select Sitecore Designer. See the following screen shot for more information: 

• Now from the New drop button select “Empty package” as you can see in the following screen shot:

• Fill the package general information fields like (Package Name, Author, Version… etc.).

• Click save from project section then enter the package project name.

This project has been saved as xml file in the path:

%YourProject%\Data\packages

If you open the xml file you can see that the package project has been saved as following:

 

	<project>
	<Metadata>
	<metadata>
	<PackageName>Test package</PackageName>
	<Author>Mohammed Syam</Author>
	<Version>1.0</Version>
	<Revision />
	<License />
	<Comment />
	<Attributes />
	<Readme />
	<Publisher>Mohammed Syam</Publisher>
	<PostStep />
	<PackageID />
	</metadata>
	</Metadata>
	….
	</project>

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Now at each time you want to update this package by adding, remving items or files; just open the package designer and select the project saved before as you can see in the following screen shot:

  

 

Hope this will help!.