Tag Archives: sublayout

Sitecore locating sublayouts on your webpage

Posted on September 11, 2015 by

This is a followup from the post, Get Sitecore placeholders and rendering hierarchy from a Sitecore item, where I adress one of the difficulties when working with pages in Sitecore, that they tend to get very complex as one page may … Continue reading →

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Get Sitecore placeholders and rendering hierarchy from a Sitecore item

Posted on December 17, 2013 by

This article explains how you can get the hierarchy of placeholders and render them to your screen for debugging or documentation purposes. The Sitecore rendering engine allows you to place sublayouts inside placeholders. These sublayouts can contain more placeholders, thus … Continue reading →

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Merge Sitecore layout details using XmlDeltas

Posted on September 30, 2013 by

One of the features that Sitecore introduced somewhere in the Sitecore 6.x range is “Layout Deltas“,  the possibility to merge an item’s layout details with the layout details on the item’s __Standard Values template. It means that you can add sublayouts to the __Standard … Continue reading →

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Avoid the use of Sitecore.Context.Item

Posted on September 13, 2013 by

Or: How Sitecore DMS and Personalization killed the Sitecore.Context.Item. This post is about how to properly ensure that you get data from the correct item when you develop websites that can be personalized. The Sitecore.Context.Item returns the current item, i.e. … Continue reading →

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Get the Sitecore Sublayout from your .aspx page (Usercontrol)

Posted on May 4, 2010 by

How do you get the Sitecore Sublayout from a Usercontrol? A Sitecore Sublayout (Sitecore.Web.UI.WebControls.Sublayout) is a container for your Usercontrol (.ascx) page. Therefore the Sublayout is retrieved by typecasting the parent to a Sublayout: Having the Sublayout in hand enables … Continue reading →

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Applying datasource to sublayouts on Sitecore items

Posted on November 13, 2008 by

In Sitecore you can apply a datasource to a sublayout when adding it to a template/item. But the datasource is not automatically used. Your context will not change to the item specified in the datasource. The datasource is therefore not … Continue reading →

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