Category Archives: Sitecore 8

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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Sitecore Publish item when moved or dragged using uiMoveItems and uiDragItemTo pipelines

Posted on September 24, 2020 by briancaos

Sometimes you have items that needs to be published immediately if moved to a new location in the content tree. Sitecore supports this – of course – via the uiMoveItems and uiDragItemTo pipelines. This technique really applies to whatever you … Continue reading →

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Sitecore field level Security – give write access to members of a certain group

Posted on August 24, 2020 by briancaos

The Sitecore security model is pretty straight forward, but as everything security, it can become complicated. This goes for field level security. For a certain field, I wish to grant read access to everyone, but write access only to members … Continue reading →

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Method not found: ‘Void Sitecore.ContentSearch.Diagnostics.AbstractLog.SingleWarn(System.String, System.Exception)’.

Posted on July 31, 2020 by briancaos

I struggled with this error in my development environment: Method not found: ‘Void Sitecore.ContentSearch.Diagnostics.AbstractLog.SingleWarn(System.String, System.Exception)’. at System.RuntimeMethodHandle.InvokeMethod(Object target, Object[] arguments, Signature sig, Boolean constructor) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.UnsafeInvokeInternal(Object obj, Object[] parameters, Object[] arguments) at System.Reflection.RuntimeMethodInfo.Invoke(Object obj, BindingFlags invokeAttr, Binder binder, Object[] parameters, … Continue reading →

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Sitecore Memory Issues – Every memory optimization trick in the book

Posted on April 27, 2020 by briancaos

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 briancaos

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 briancaos

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 briancaos

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 briancaos

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 and Application Insights – How to remove 90% of all log lines without sacrificing traceability

Posted on December 5, 2019 by briancaos

In this article I will explain how you can remove up to 90% of all log lines from the Application Insights log, but still keep every log line in the file log. All of this without loosing any important information. … Continue reading →

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