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”
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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”
Some key portals a Sitecore developer should be aware of
So, IF you have been assigned to a Sitecore Project for the first time or you’re just getting started with Sitecore or you don’t know what are options available as Sitecore reference, this article is written to aid you. Sitecore Downloads https://dev.sitecore.net/ is the official site for downloading all sitecore products (Experience Platform, Experience Commerce,Continue reading “Some key portals a Sitecore developer should be aware of”
Sitecore – Azure AD Integration with Sitecore Identity Server
This article talks about steps to be followed for integrating Azure AD with Sitecore Identity Server(SI). It doesn’t involve any code changes, just some setup in Azure portal and a few config changes in SI Server. We will be needed to update the Client ID, Tenant ID in Sitecore.Plugin.IdentityProvider.AzureAd.xml file present in your {IndentityServerRoot}/sitecore/Sitecore.Plugin.IdentityProvider.AzureAd/Config folder.Continue reading “Sitecore – Azure AD Integration with Sitecore Identity Server”
Sitecore Forms – Custom Field Validator
Just like any other feature in Sitecore, Sitecore Form’s Field Validator can also be customized based on our need. Any forms would require a client side validation and server side validation. In Client Side we can validate the field for any special characters and block user from entering them. However, in the server side weContinue reading “Sitecore Forms – Custom Field Validator”
Sitecore 10 Content Serialization – Command Line Interface
With Sitecore 10 release, Sitecore has released two new modules for the sole purpose of serializing Sitecore Contents making it easy to port between Sitecore instances. (One dev to another dev or from local to dev/uat or higher environment) Well.. SCS(Sitecore Content Serialization) is not a new concept all together. We already have tools likeContinue reading “Sitecore 10 Content Serialization – Command Line Interface”
Sitecore – Experience Profile
I was always curious to know about how Amazon shows relevant products, how YouTube recommends new videos and Netflix/Prime next series/movies. Well the below post is the Sitecore version of it. It’s about how we can achieve a similar personalized user experience in a Sitecore based site. In this post, I am gonna discuss aboutContinue reading “Sitecore – Experience Profile”
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