Category Archives: Sitecore 6

Sitecore open internal links in new window

Posted on May 25, 2018 by

Frequent users of Sitecore have already noticed that the “Insert Sitecore Link” dialog does not have a target selector: Yes it’s true, if you wish to open an internal link in a new windows, it’s a 2 step process. First … Continue reading →

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In Sitecore 9, the ProxyDisabler have been retired completely

Posted on January 22, 2018 by

Sitecore have finally retired the ProxyDisabler in Sitecore 9. Proxy items were the early version of item cloning and were deprecated in Sitecore 6. And now the ProxyDisabler have been removed. There are no replacement. All you need to do … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Postbacks not working? Contents not updated on button click? Try removing caching from your rendering

Posted on October 30, 2017 by

This is a classic Sitecore blunder – suddenly postbacks or button clicks have no effect, as if the web site no longer are connected to your webforms codebehind or the MVC renderings. And you have not changed any code. But … Continue reading →

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Sitecore SOLR error: Invalid Date in Date Math String

Posted on October 25, 2017 by

There seems to be an issue with certain combinations of Sitecore, SOLR and the local machine datetime settings. This is the error: ManagedPoolThread #11 12:20:50 INFO Job started: Index_Update_IndexName=sitecore_master_index ManagedPoolThread #11 12:20:50 ERROR Exception Exception: System.Reflection.TargetInvocationException Message: Exception has been … Continue reading →

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Sitecore separate users from CORE database – move membership provider to separate database

Posted on October 24, 2017 by

Since Sitecore 6, Sitecore have had the .NET membership tables in the CORE database. And since every instance of Sitecore needs access to the CORE database, it might seem as a good place to store them. But separating the users … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Scheduled Task – Schedule time format and other quirks

Posted on August 18, 2017 by

The Sitecore task runner, usually called Scheduled Tasks, is a simple way of executing code with intervals. You configure scheduled tasks in Sitecore, at /sitecore/system/Tasks/Schedules: The quirkiest configuration setting is the “Schedule” field, which is a pipe separated string determining when … Continue reading →

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Sitecore how to configure SSL (HTTPS) in your Sitecore config files

Posted on March 17, 2017 by

SSL and HTTPS have been the hot topic since Google began to use HTTPS as a signal in their search rankings. Fortunately, Sitecore really does not care if it runs in HTTP or HTTPS, so most of the configurations are … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Hiding items: Clean up the cluttered content tree

Posted on February 24, 2017 by

As a followup to a question from Derek Dysart on my previous post, How to make the experience editor a great experience for your editors I will explain how you can clean up the Sitecore content tree by hiding system items. A … Continue reading →

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Get Sitecore System Info

Posted on January 20, 2017 by

Would you like to know the System Info of your current Sitecore instance: It’s fairly easy. I created an SysInfo.aspx page and dumped in into the /sitecore modules/shell folder. The page is now available on the URL <yourwebsite>/sitecore modules/shell/sysinfo.aspx. The … Continue reading →

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