Category Archives: Sitecore 6

Using emojis in Sitecore

Posted on January 4, 2019 by

Because people younger than me stopped communicating with words and instead adopted a modern version of hieroglyphs, emojis have become a part of every modern OS and Browser, and have even been adopted by the Unicode Consortium as a standard … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Security: Roles in Roles – What it is and how it works

Posted on December 6, 2018 by

The Sitecore Roles-In-Roles is an extension to the basic authorization that have been around ever since Sitecore 5. WHAT IS ROLES-IN-ROLES? Roles-In-Roles allows you to have nested roles, so when you add a role to a user, the user is … Continue reading →

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Sitecore check access and roles programatically

Posted on November 9, 2018 by

The Sitecore security model have changed over time, but the general API to check security access and roles have been stable for many many years. CHECK IF USER HAS ACCESS TO AN ITEM: To check if a user have access … Continue reading →

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Sitecore find Unused Sublayouts

Posted on September 28, 2018 by

Long lived Sitecore solutions tend to build up unused renderings and sublayouts as design, features and functions evolve. Finding those unused sublayouts it not just a matter of checking the Sitecore Link Database for sublayouts with no references because: You will … Continue reading →

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Sitecore find unused templates

Posted on September 14, 2018 by

Long lived Sitecore projects tend to build up dead templates and renderings as design, features and functions evolve. Finding those unused templates is not always just a matter of checking the Sitecore link database for templates with no references because: … Continue reading →

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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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