Copying English version content to new language versions – Sitecore

While working on our latest Sitecore project, our client requested that all language versions to be based on the current English version which means copying the current English version fields' content. Some fields or all fields (depending on the page) are then translated to the corresponding language version manually. By default, when creating a new …

Sitecore 8.2 Azure PaaS and Lucene

This is a short blog sharing my first experience with deploying onto Azure PaaS in regard to indexing. tldr Azure PaaS does not support Lucene search, only Azure Search (configured by default), Solr or Coveo. I have added an update at the end showing that you can actually use Lucene but requires manual work. Symptoms …

Managing Datasource children items from Experience Editor

Working with placeholders for inner component items is usually not an easy task for non-technical content editors or marketers, especially when having to do the repetitive task of: Finding the correct 'Add here' placeholder button Clicking on the correct rendering (when is usually one rendering) Selecting/Creating the datasource item while placing it under its parent component datasource item …

Sitecore Workflows: Targeted Notifications

While working on my last project, the client has requested for notifications to be sent during workflow changes to specific people, either the creator of the page, to a list of people or to the person who reviewed, accepted, rejected etc... (taken an action in the workbox on) the new page. According to our knowledge, this is …

Sitecore Workflows: Scheduled Publishing

One of the common tasks required from Sitecore developers is to implement workflows that end up being published immediately or at a specific time in the future (Scheduled Publishing). The first option is straightforward to do and doesn't require any external coding or user interaction (other than changing workflow states). The second option can also be implemented …

Do we need Sitecore’s Data Exchange Framework?!

One of this year's Sitecore Hackathon categories was a Data Exchange Framework (DEF) Sitecore module. Sitecore is trying to spread DEF and push it to the market. But do we really need it? My short answer is most probably yes but of course, "it depends"!

DO NOT add Help Description with double quotes(“)

I think the title provides enough advice. I just worked on a ticket where Sitecore 8.1 Experience Editor was breaking in some pages. Breaking as in the components/placeholders borders and backgrounds were not visible. So you get the feeling the EE has not worked at all, although you can click on fields and edit them. Our FE …

Publishing Images of Datasource Items

One of the really important features that Sitecore should include is to publish the linked items to datasource items such as images when publishing an item with its related items. I have been working on such a task to achieve this. Let me start by explaining the problem with an example: My Home item has two …

TeamCity (a build/deployment tool) [CI]

My experience with Team City. An excellent CI/build tool

Creating 403, 404 & 500 error Pages

Creating 403, 404 and 500 custom error pages for a Sitecore Web Application