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Sitecore – Dependency Injection

Dependency Injection was always a tricky concept and hard to understand for me when I started my career.(Well, in fact even in college days this was the chapter that I left on optional.) Later, after working on .NET web applications and I understood the basics of Dependency Injection, But I still had some gaps. So,Continue reading “Sitecore – Dependency Injection”

Sitecore – Analytics Report Query

Last week one of my friend asked me whether I have worked on something that kinda allows us to show Sitecore Analytics data like Top 5 Visited pages of a website in a 404 error page…Something like page you searched for is not found…Interested in checking out these top visited pages….(Probably some content with betterContinue reading “Sitecore – Analytics Report Query”

Sitecore – Segments and Segmented List

In my last article, while concluding I mentioned that we can create lists for male 18-30; 30-40 and 40 & above, use them relevant campaigns. This is the follow up or a sequel kind of article discussing about that use case. I thought just like how we created a logic that checks the contacts genderContinue reading “Sitecore – Segments and Segmented List”

Sitecore – Custom Submit Action – Create Contact – List Management

We have explored creating a Custom Form Element – Rich Text Field and Creating a Custom Form Field Validator earlier. Ever since I wrote those articles, I always wanted to explore creating a Custom Submit Action. But rather than just writing about how to implement a custom submit action, I thought I will pick someContinue reading “Sitecore – Custom Submit Action – Create Contact – List Management”

Sitecore CLI – Non Interactive Client Login – Error while getting client credentials token: invalid_client

Normally, from developer machine, if we want to use, Sitecore CLI for serialization, we would have used the commands, dotnet sitecore login –auth “IdentityServerURL” –cm “CMS URL” –allow-write true which would open the browser and redirect you to Identity Server Login page for Authentication, Once you enter the User Name/Password your session will be authenticatedContinue reading “Sitecore CLI – Non Interactive Client Login – Error while getting client credentials token: invalid_client”

Sitecore – Yesterday…Today and Tomorrow

Sitecore from the year it was founded to this day,(From being a Web Content Management System to a Digital Experience Platform) has made several changes to their products, product features and product portfolio. The Idea of Sitecore: Sitecore was initially created as a project to automate website creation process (after implementing several websites for clientsContinue reading “Sitecore – Yesterday…Today and Tomorrow”

Sitecore – What is that {webroot}/App_Data/items/****.dat ??

So, last week I read an article about Sitecore Upgradation by Martin Miles. In that article, at Upgrade Database step, it was mentioned that the default items in sitecore from 10.1 and above, are not stored in database and are read from file system. 10.1 was released almost a year ago and although I amContinue reading “Sitecore – What is that {webroot}/App_Data/items/****.dat ??”

Sitecore Debugger

In one of my previous assignment, I was told, the load time of almost all the pages in the website is higher and was asked to analyze and improve the page load time. That’s when I remember one of the Sitecore’s OOTB gem -> Sitecore Debugger. Sitecore debugger is available from very early versions –Continue reading “Sitecore Debugger”

Sitecore for Visual Studio

I have already explored Unicorn and Sitecore Management Services for Sitecore Content Serialization purpose and written couple of articles about them. This is in continuation to that series. (a small recap, to set the article context) Prev. developers used TDS/Unicorn for content synchronization. TDS comes with license cost whereas Unicorn is open source. Although theseContinue reading “Sitecore for Visual Studio”

Sitecore Patents

Sitecore Personalization: So, you must have probably used Sitecore Personalization using rules. You must have added some rules to your rendering to provide more personalized content to your visitor based on some conditions. When these conditions are met, the rules are triggered by the rule engine and the content is updated. Sitecore Optimization – A/BContinue reading “Sitecore Patents”