Category Archives: Sitecore 7

Sitecore create custom Content Editor Warnings using Conditions and Rules

Posted on January 21, 2022 by briancaos

The Content Editor Warnings are these yellow boxes that hover over your content in the Content Editor in Sitecore: In the old days we would make them by hooking into the getContentEditorWarnings pipeline. Nowadays we use the Sitecore Rules engine. … Continue reading →

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Sitecore poor Index Update performance linked to missing Index in the Links database

Posted on January 17, 2022 by briancaos

Suddenly my index updates took forever to finish. I mean, one index update would take 2 minutes. And I have a lot of index updates. A lot. UPDATE: 2022-01-19: Sitecore have suggested the same changes to the links database in … Continue reading →

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Sitecore high CPU usage – is the SQL Session State Provider the villain?

Posted on November 25, 2021 by briancaos

My massive Sitecore 9.1 installation started having CPU spikes, even when the servers did not seem to receive more requests. When CPU spiked, I could see that the requests queue would build up, until it crashed with the following error: … Continue reading →

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Sitecore publishItem pipeline – handling missing delete when publishing

Posted on September 23, 2021 by briancaos

When publishing items in Sitecore, the publishItem pipeline is called for each item that must be published, or unpublished. Except for children of items that have been deleted. Let’s take this example: If I publish the top item, the publishItem … Continue reading →

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Sitecore read from Custom Database

Posted on September 21, 2021 by briancaos

It is very easy to read from a custom database in your Sitecore code. STEP 1: ADD THE CONNECTIONSTRING TO CONNECTIONSTRINGS.CONFIG This is an example of a .config file that transforms the connection strings for existing Sitecore databases (like the … Continue reading →

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Sitecore KeepLockAfterSave – Configuring Security Policies Per-Role Based

Posted on May 27, 2021 by briancaos

Now here is a nifty Sitecore trick. You have probably learned about the AutomaticLockOnSave feature that allows Sitecore to lock an item when it is saved. The feature is enabled or disabled using configuration setting (and can be negated with … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ComputedIndexField extends your SOLR index

Posted on April 26, 2021 by briancaos

The Sitecore SOLR index is your quick access to Sitecore content. And you can extend this access by adding computed index fields. This is a way of enriching your searches with content that is not part of your Sitecore templates, … Continue reading →

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Sitecore AccessResultCache cache is cleared by Sitecore.Caching.Generics.Cache`1+DefaultScavengeStrategy[[Sitecore.Caching.AccessResultCacheKey

Posted on March 25, 2021 by briancaos

Are you getting a lot of these messages in your Sitecore log: 6052 2021:03:25 05:23:12 WARN AccessResultCache cache is cleared by Sitecore.Caching.Generics.Cache`1+DefaultScavengeStrategy[[Sitecore.Caching.AccessResultCacheKey, Sitecore.Kernel, Version=11.1.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=null]] strategy. Cache running size was xxx MB. This message can easily appear once every … Continue reading →

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Sitecore LinkField TargetItem is NULL – what’s wrong?

Posted on November 20, 2020 by briancaos

An ancient topic, that pops up once or twice every year. The TargetItem of Sitecore.Data.Links.LinkField returns NULL and you are CERTAIN that the item is published. What to do? CASE 1: THERE IS SECURITY SET ON THE TARGETITEM Items where … Continue reading →

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