Care When Packaging Item Buckets

If you ever have to create a package for items within an Item Bucket, take care to include all the parent folders along the item path.

If you only include the items themselves, Sitecore doesn't remember that they used to be in Item Buckets and the folder structure it creates to store them in will be of the template "System\Node".

Let's say you want to create a package with the following items. The "Courses" folder is your top-level Item Bucket...



The quickest and easiest way would be to go to the "58" folder, and use the "Add with subitems" button.



However, if the Sitecore instance you install the package on does not already have that exact Item Bucket folder structure... it will create the folders using the "System\Node" template.

I've ended up with folder structures that are a mix of Item Buckets and System\Nodes because of this, and according to Sitecore's support this is something to be avoided as it could potentially cause problems.

So to be safe, go through and add each Item Bucket folder in the chain, as well as any items you want to add. It's more tedious, but it will let you avoid having to Sync a bunch of System/Node folders after you've installed your package.