Category Archives: Sitecore 7

Sitecore Memory Issues – Every memory optimization trick in the book

Posted on April 27, 2020 by

My recent post, Sitecore high memory usage – not always a problem, claims that high memory usage is not the same as having a memory problem in Sitecore. But the reason you are reading this blog is because the memory … Continue reading →

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Sitecore high memory usage – not always a problem

Posted on April 17, 2020 by

Sitecore is known to be a real memory hog. Especially the CM server is known to love memory. One of the memory issues that Sitecore faces is the high usage of the Large Object Heap. WHY IS THIS A PROBLEM? … Continue reading →

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Sync Sitecore content to external database

Posted on March 6, 2020 by

The legal department of the client requested that we sync parts of the Sitecore tree to an external, system-versioned temporal table, so that we have a full audit trail of changes to these items including before-and-after values. Fear not, this … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Create/Read/Update/Delete/Copy/Move/Rename item – the beginners guide

Posted on January 23, 2020 by

New Sitecorians often ask the most trivial questions, and I am happy to answer them. This question popped up lately: How do you perform basic CRUD operations on your Sitecore items? Well, it’s easy: READ ITEM (GET ITEM): CREATE ITEM: … Continue reading →

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Sitecore use item:deleting event to avoid deletion of items

Posted on January 3, 2020 by

The Sitecore extendable model allows you to build business rules into your Sitecore solution. This is an example where I disallow deletion of certain items when a certain business rule is true. This pattern could be implemented using a field … Continue reading →

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Sitecore publish certain items on save

Posted on September 6, 2019 by

My Sitecore solution have some items, where changes to certain fields are so critical that they need to be published immediately. So when my user presses the Save button, I will open a popup dialog, asking if I should publish … Continue reading →

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Which of my old Sitecore posts are still valid in Sitecore 9?

Posted on August 23, 2019 by

I have been writing Sitecore blog posts since April 2006. The first ones were for Sitecore 4.2. Now, 13 years later, some of the old posts are still valid, while others are obsolete as the Sitecore API have changed. But … Continue reading →

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Sitecore CTRL+S fires item:saving event twice

Posted on August 23, 2019 by

If you have ever tried to implement your own Sitecore item:saving or item:saved event handlers, or have tried to extend the SaveUI pipeline, you might have noticed that the events gets fired twice if you click [CTRL]+[S], but only once … Continue reading →

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IdentityServer use IdentityModel to get user token and user info

Posted on August 16, 2019 by

Using IdentityServer have been made easier with the IdentityModel helper library. The library implements extension methods that maps the input and output to classes. GET ACCESS TOKEN: Use the PasswordTokenRequest and RequestPasswordTokenAsync to get the access token. replace your_domain, your_clientid … Continue reading →

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Sitecore use Application Insights Metrics and Telemetry

Posted on August 2, 2019 by

Although Sitecore have an integration for Application Insights (which is part of Azure Monitor), you can implement the TelemetryClient yourself. This is useful if you wish to log Metrics or Trace your own code, without involving the complete Sitecore solution. … Continue reading →

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