Synchronized content and settings

From the source server to the target server, you can synchronize the following content:

• Blogs and Blog Posts
• Calendars and Events
• Content Blocks
• Document Libraries and Documents
• From the Ecommerce module, you can sync the following:
  
  • Attributes and Attribute Values
    Any language versions of attributes and values are also synced.
  • Products
    Product data along with each product’s corresponding images, downloadable files and content files, and any language versions of titles and descriptions are synced.  
    

    You can synchronize products from both predefined and custom product types. You cannot synchronize the product types themselves. For more information, see Prerequisites and restrictions » Restrictions.

  • Variations
• Image Libraries and Images
• Lists and List Items
• News items
• Forms
  Form definitions only.
  
• Page Templates and Pages
  Pages are synchronized together with their personalized versions, if any.
• Segments
  These are the personalization user segments.
• Widget templates
• Taxonomies and Taxa
• Video Libraries and Videos
• Dynamic content types
  For more information, see Prerequisites and restrictions.

IMPORTANT:SiteSync syncs only published versions of the items. However, if a draft version is created on the source server after the item was published, then the draft state will be displayed on the target server as well, but the draft item will not be visible on the frontend.

NOTE: The last modified date attribute is calculated automatically by the ORM when the record is inserted into the database. That is why on the source and on the target servers there may be different values for the last modified date.

By default, Sitefinity CMS synchronizes the following settings:

• Newly created sites and their dynamic modules
  

  NOTE: If a site has not been created yet on the target server, you cannot sync items from it, unless the site is included in the synchronization items.

• Permissions
  

  IMPORTANT: You must have the same global permissions on the source and the target servers, because items that inherit from the global permissions of the source server, after synchronization, will inherit from the global permissions of the target server.

  If you break the inheritance of an item and sync this item from the source to the target server, by default, permissions will be synchronized too.

  You can turn off permissions synchronization. To do this, on the source server, click Administration » Settings» Advanced » SiteSync, select Disable permissions sync checkbox, and save your changes.

By clicking Administration » Settings » Advanced » SiteSync, you can also turn on the synchronization of the following settings and configurations:

• Users and Roles
  The assignment of roles to users is also synchronized.
• Personalization segments
  This enables the synchronization of personalized pages.
• Search indexes
• Resources
  This enables the syncing of interface labels and messages.
• Settings
  This enables the synchronization of configuration files.
  You can include and exclude configuration from the sync.
  To do this, click Administration » Settings » Advanced » SiteSync » Excluded configs.
  By default, if you have turned on settings sync, the following configs are excluded from the synchronization:
  • dataConfig 
  • notificationsConfig
  • siteSyncConfig
  • systemConfig
  • securityConfig
  • sharepointConnectorConfig

• Custom fields for built-in modules 
  Only custom fields in dynamic modules are synchronized
  
• No items that are in workflow status different from Published and Scheduled.
  
• Version history
  
• Forums
  
• Comments and ratings
  
• System data
  The following system data is not synchronized:
  
  • File system content
  • Content that is not in the database, such as labels, themes, and master pages.
    

    NOTE: You can, however, synchronize library content that is stored in the File system storage.

  • Backend pages
    
  • Feeds
    
  • Workflow definitions
  • Responsive design settings
    
  • Email campaigns

For all selected items types, you can use selective sync. This way, you can choose not to synchronize all new or updated items of a certain type, but only selected ones or only item from in a particular language. The system automatically resolves the dependencies between items. For example, if you have selected to sync a particular blog post only, the system automatically syncs also the parent blog.

The dependencies between synced items are as follows:

• Pages depend on their parent pages
• Page templates - on their parent templates
• Blog posts - on their parent blog
• List items - on their parent list
• Media items - on their parent library
• Libraries - on their parent libraries
• Taxa – on their parent taxa and taxonomy
• Hierarchical dynamic items - on their parents
• Pages depend on their page templates
• Pages depend on the widget templates that the widgets on the pages depend on
• Pages depend on segments for their personalized versions
• Dynamic items - on their module’s structure
• Dynamic items with media fields – on the corresponding media item
• Dynamic module – on its widgets’ templates
• Sites – on their dynamic modules

NOTE: Pages and Page Templates require the widget templates to be manually selected for sync.