Eric Sanner – Solutions Architect

Welcome back to getting to know Sitecore search.  In this post, we’ll focus on the advanced web crawler.  We’ll modify the source, document extractors, taggers and attributes to customize our indexed documents. Manage Sources To manage sources, visit Administration/Sources From this screen you can see a list of your sources.  You can see the source […]

Welcome back to getting to know Sitecore search.  In this post, we’ll look at managing users, the available roles, and the role permissions. Manage Users To manage users, visit Administration/Manage Users From this screen you can see the list users for this domain.  You can see if their email address, first name, last name, and […]

Welcome back to getting to know Sitecore search.  In this post, we’ll look at the default setup and configuration of a new instance of Sitecore Search.  We’ll look at the default source, catalog, pages, and widgets. After we’ll get familiar with a few sections of the admin portal.  We’ll play with the api explorer to […]

Welcome back to getting to know Sitecore search.  In this post we’ll take a tour of the Sitecore Search UI and cover some of the basic terminology used when talking about Sitecore Search.  Let’s get started! Sitecore Search UI Across the top Site Switcher – Let’s you switch between multiple Search accounts Account – Manage […]

As part of Sitecore’s move to a composable world, Sitecore has introduced Sitecore Search.  This tool offers relevant content through AI-powered search.  It can monitor user interactions across your sites (including multiple languages) and offer individualized results.  Imagine a site that sells watches, purses, and clothes.  If I browse several pages of watches then search […]

Sitecore recently updated their docker images to use ltsc2022. Martin Miles showed us what that means for developers and how to update your container environment to run Sitecore in process isolation mode. In short, process isolation is again a viable option to improve performance of running containers locally. I was hopeful the ltsc2022 images were […]

Welcome back to this case study on doing a lift and shift from Drupal to Sitecore 10.2 and SXA. In the previous article we setup a theme, a custom grid and a base component. This removed all the extra divs and containers normally injected by SXA. In this article, we’ll use the html from drupal […]

Welcome back to this case study on doing a lift and shift from Drupal to Sitecore 10.2 and SXA. In this article, we’ll show the theme setup, the grid setup and the base sxa component. Theme Since we are using SXA, we used the sxa cli to create our theme and upload into Sitecore. I […]

Drupal to Sitecore SXA One of my recent projects was a full site lift and shift from Drupal to Sitecore 10.2 and SXA. The goal was to make the new frontend Sitecore site look exactly like the old Drupal site. We did fix a few accessibility issues on the existing site as we went, but […]

Welcome back to Going Multilingual in Sitecore. It’s been a while since I’ve worked on a site that had content in multiple languages. I was thankful to my 2019 self that I had written these articles. Back then, I was using Sitecore 8.X. Today I am using Sitecore 10.X with SXA. While most of the […]

I work on multiple projects at the same time. In my daily workflow, I switch between projects throughout the day. It is important for me to keep my projects separate for security reasons. To accomplish this, I have a separate virtual machine for each client. I am able to stay logged in to required systems, […]

I recently updated Docker Desktop to version 4.16.3. My system ran much slower than I am used to when running docker. My first reaction is to open task manager and see what is going on with my system. Docker Desktop is using 81% of my CPU!!!?? Expanding the item, I notice the culprit is docker-index.exe. […]