According to the Sitecore XM Cloud Documentation for Developers1, the Sitecore Cloud CLI is a command-line tool that allows you to perform operations against local or remote XM Cloud instances. You can use the Sitecore Cloud CLI to deploy your existing XM Cloud-compatible Sitecore XM solution in the cloud, regardless of the source code provider you are using. To deploy your solution to XM Cloud using the Sitecore Cloud CLI, you need to follow these steps2:

Install the Sitecore Cloud CLI on your workstation.

Authorize the Sitecore Cloud CLI with your Sitecore Cloud Portal organization.

Create a project in the XM Cloud Deploy app using the Sitecore Cloud CLI.

Connect your local environment to the project using the Sitecore Cloud CLI.

Push your serialized items to the project using the Sitecore Cloud CLI.

Deploy your solution to an XM Cloud environment using the Sitecore Cloud CLI.

2: Walkthrough: Creating an XM Cloud project using the Sitecore CLI 1: XM Cloud Documentation for Developers - Sitecore

According to the Sitecore XM Cloud Documentation for Developers1, the scope property is used to control the depth of the serialization tree. The scope property can have one of the following values2:

Self -- only the item itself is serialized, not its descendants.

Children -- the item and its immediate children are serialized, not the grandchildren or further descendants.

Subtree -- the item and all its descendants are serialized, regardless of the depth.

To limit the serialization of items under a Navigation item to just the item itself and then one step below, the developer should add the scope property with the value Children to the includes section of the serialization configuration file. For example3:

includes:

- name: Navigation

path: /sitecore/content/MySite/Navigation

scope: Children

2: The YAML serialization format | Sitecore Documentation 3: The XM Cloud build configuration | Sitecore Documentation 1: XM Cloud Documentation for Developers - Sitecore

According to the Sitecore XM Cloud Documentation for Developers1, a content author needs to have the Language Read and Language Write rights on the content item in the current language2. You can use the Access Viewer to check and assign the appropriate access rights for your user or role1. You can also use the Security Editor to set the read/write rights on the language level2.

To configure a rendering for the use of dynamic placeholders in Sitecore XM Cloud, the following steps are required:

Include the IDynamicPlaceholder base template in the Rendering Parameters template to enable dynamic assignment of IDs to the placeholder key.

Link the placeholder settings item to the rendering item to ensure that the dynamic placeholders are correctly associated with the rendering.

Define the placeholder key using a wildcard in the placeholder settings item, which allows for the generation of unique placeholder keys for every component on the page.