Sitecore Unicorn standard values field child ID warnings
I thought I'd share this just in case anyone else wonders why they get the following WARN message for every single template that has a standard values set, when performing a Unicorn Sync. To get things started: Unicorn - 4.03 and 4.04 Sitecore - 8.2 Update 6 This happened to us when fully syncing from disk into a blank Sitecore instance, using a gulp script that calls a PowerShell sync, see below. WARN The standard values field of template /sitecore/templates/User Defined/Foundation/Theming/Theme/Theme Options:{XXX-XXX-XXX-XXX-XXXXXXXXXXXX} does not contain an ID that points to a child The issue (i think) is that when unicorn de-serialises the template item, it has a field for standard values. At the point of creation that items children haven't been created, most importantly the standard values item. Sitecore checks the standard values field value and see that the id doesn't exist at this point, and not as a child of the item, so outputs the WARN message. Un