Category Archives: Sitecore 7

Edit special field types in Sitecore Experience Editor – Custom Experience Editor Buttons replaces the Edit Frame

Posted on September 1, 2017 by

The Sitecore Experience Editor allows inline editing of simple field types like text and rich text (HTML) field, and a few complex ones like links. But editing checkboxes, lookup values, multiselect boxes, or any custom field you might have developed … 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 contact cannot be loaded, code never responds

Posted on June 23, 2017 by

In Sitecore, it is possible to encounter a situation where the calls identifying or locking a contact never responds, but there is no errors returned. A call to identify: And a call to Load a contact: Can both take forever … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ContentSearch – Get items from SOLR or Lucene – A base class implementation

Posted on June 9, 2017 by

Reading items from Sitecore is pretty straight forward: And it is fast, unless you need to retrieve items from many paths, or need to retrieve every child of a certain base class. In these situations you resolve to using the … Continue reading →

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Sitecore user:created event not fired on Membership.CreateUser

Posted on June 1, 2017 by

Sitecore have since 7.5’ish fired events each time you manipulate the users in the .NET Membership database: But I noticed that the user:created event was not fired. This is because I call the .NET Membership provider directly: This call to … Continue reading →

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Sitecore ContentSearch Get Latest Version

Posted on May 5, 2017 by

The Sitecore ContentSearch API allows you to index content in either .NET Lucene or SOLR, dramatically speeding up retrieval of content, especially when querying items that are scattered across your content tree. Content retrieved from the ContentSearch API is not … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Caching – Clear caches individually

Posted on May 1, 2017 by

The Sitecore caching engine is a simple yet powerful tool where Sitecore not only stores it’s own data for fast retrieval, but allows you to store your own data of any kind. Sitecore have a built in overview of the … 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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Sitecore how to make the experience editor a great experience for your editors

Posted on February 17, 2017 by

In Sitecore it is very easy to toss in a few renderings on a page, set the renderings flag to “editable”, and voila, the page is editable using the Sitecore Experience Editor. But that kind of laziness often ends up … Continue reading →

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