Quick fix for Experience Editor
In later versions of Sitecore, there is a new link field called General Link with Search. As the name says, it’s basically the same as the old one but with an extra search option. In later versions of...
View ArticleTDS Sync settings
After a fresh install of my whole dev environment onto a new nice machine, I realised that Hedgehog Team Development for Sitecore (TDS) isn’t by default configured the way I like it. In the Options...
View ArticleAn odd Sitecore field validator
Today I faced a Sitecore website rollout problem I’ve never thought of before. When doing a multi language/multi market solution, it’s common to use cloning or other kinds of fallback techniques. This...
View ArticleMultiple item reference indicator in Sitecore Experience Editor
In Sitecore, we build pages adding renderings to a page. Renderings typically have datasources pointing to items carrying the content. Thereby it’s really easy to reuse content. In a scenario where a...
View ArticleNordic Sitecore Conference summary
Home again after a long Nordic Sitecore Conference day at Sankt Gertrud in Malmö, Sweden. A fully packed day with great topics, speakers and a few minutes of networking in between the sessions. Lars...
View ArticleManaging clone notifications
At yesterdays Nordic Sitecore Conference, I was asked about how we deal with clone notifications in Sitecore. So here I’ll try to do a brief blogpost of my thoughts on this and how we’ve solved it. It...
View ArticleSitecore 8.1 config changes
With the new version 8.1 of Sitecore we get a some really nice new features that’s been talked about a lot over the last few weeks. In this post I’d like to highlight one of the minor changes that I...
View ArticleFlatten the Sitecore web database
This post describes a concept of resolving content during publish in Sitecore 8.1, but most of it will apply to older versions as well. With Sitecore 8.1 we get language fallback out of the box....
View ArticleThoughts on indexing Sitecore content with Solr
Today, my colleagues stumbled upon a strange behavior in one of our projects. I won’t go into all the details about it, but it let me think about how Sitecore indexes fields and how it can be improved....
View ArticleSpeading up the Sitecore Experience Editor
If you’ve spent some time with Sitecore 8.x, you’ve probably experienced the tremendously slow SPEAK driven Experience Editor (formerly known as Page Editor). This is due to multiple problems. The...
View ArticleEditor friendly language fallback
Language fallback is really nice when working multi lingual websites. It save a lot of time and makes the solution very flexible. However, among content editors it can cause some headaches since the...
View ArticleSitecore File Watcher Internal Buffer Overflow Exception in 8.1 update-1
After upgrading some of our solutions to Sitecore 8.1 update-1 we started seeing errors in our log files, such as this: ... ERROR Error in FileWatcher. Internal buffer overflow. Exception:...
View ArticleLanguage Fallback on Display Name
In Sitecore 8.1 we finally got language fallback built into the core product. This gives us the option to specify, per field, if we want to inherit a field value from another language when the field...
View ArticleSitecore MVP 2016 Winner
Thank you Sitecore for awarding me “Technology Most Valuable Professional (MVP)” again! Fourth year in a row! This year, Sitecore has designated 177 Technology MVPs, 35 Digital Strategist MVPs, and...
View ArticleAutomatic unlock items
There has been many posts about unlocking Sitecore items, and here’s yet another one that perhaps fits your needs. In one of our projects, we decided that users that are not logged into Sitecore,...
View ArticleSwitching authoring language in Sitecore
There are different approaches that can be taken when managing multi-lingual web sites in Sitecore. Sometimes your authors might have to manage content in multiple languages and the might need to...
View ArticleYet another Sitecore scheduled publishing engine
When you schedule an item in Sitecore, it doesn’t mean that the item gets published or unpublished at that date. It just means that it is possible to publish the item within the given period. One have...
View ArticleInclude renderings with Sitecore MVC
This post is about extending Sitecore to simplify reuse of content. It’s nothing new and has been done many times before. This is just my take on a common scenario. The solution is only tested on...
View ArticleSmall fixes to Sitecore 8.1 Experience Editor
There are always room for improvements of the Experience Editor. Here are a few simple ones to fix. Since Sitecore 8.1, field validation results are shown inline in text fields. This is quite useful...
View ArticleOptimized Progressive Images in Sitecore
Serving optimized images on websites is essential to get high performances website and get a good user experience. There are numerous implementations of this and here is yet another one. Inspired by...
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