Sitecore

Creating a search context to perform your search queries should be easy right? With Sitecore’s Content Search API, it is as easy as passing in the literal name of the index as a parameter into a ContentSearchManager method. Connecting to a Sitecore-Managed Azure Search Index to perform queries using Azure Search API adds some complexity […]

The project was to upgrade and maintain the catalog system from PIM to Sitecore: Earlier catalog data, like category, product, and SKUs were coming to the commerce system from the PIM server. It’s a system that was running for quite some time under a different vendor with code that we inherited. Things are the way […]

The Sitecore Data Exchange Framework allows for data to be synchronized between two disparate systems, neither of which need to actually be Sitecore. The modeling for the data mapping is handled in the Sitecore content tree, however, the process can involve any two systems you configure. When mapping fields, there is a certain process that […]

Headless. It’s a buzzword and evolving concept that has been around for a few years. To those in the development profession, this is likely old news. However, marketers are now not only sharing a seat at the table when looking at re-platforming or building new websites. But they are also often the key business decision-makers […]

Perficient is honored to have twelve colleagues named Sitecore MVPs in 2020. This exciting news brings our overall number of MVP recognition to more than 50 total. The Sitecore MVP program recognizes the most active Sitecore experts from around the world who participate in online and offline communities to share their knowledge with other Sitecore […]

MedTouch CEO Paul Griffiths and Chief Technology Officer Dan Persson have been named to the prestigious 2018 Sitecore MVP list. MedTouch is a thought leader in making Sitecore meaningful for hospitals and health plans. Dan was recognized for the third year in a row as a Sitecore MVP in Technology, which acknowledges technical leadership, aptitude, […]

In HTML, the class attribute specifies one or more class names for an HTML element. This attribute can be used on any HTML element. Class names can be used by CSS and JavaScript to perform specific tasks related to that element. So, basically, class plays a crucial role in web development. What comes to your […]

One of the main features in Sitecore SXA 9.3 is the introduction of Scriban Templates. This will replace the legacy NVelocity Template engine that was being used previously with SXA. Scriban is very efficient when it comes to performance and flexibility.     We can define HTML structure using Scriban with usage of extra properties. […]

We have learned the basics of SXA’s Rendering Variants feature, and have seen how useful the feature is in terms of changing the appearance of our Components. This is very helpful when we want to use the same rendering to display different fields and many other properties like CSS Classes, HTML wrapper element, Data attributes, […]

As we covered in the first post on the basics of Rendering Variants in SXA, Rendering Variants are configurable adaptations of default renderings. With Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA), we can display many variations of a Component using Rendering Variants. In this blog post, we will look at the scenario where we want to wrap a […]

Rendering Variants is one of the best features in Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA). The feature allows users to change the structure and appearance of how a Component will be rendered without needing any code changes. In this three-part series, we will look at a few different concepts of Rendering Variants. In this first post, we […]

Fuzzy search. Synonym matching. Escaping special characters in the user input. How does one provide a quality search component in Sitecore that allows for user text input? Your site’s users will come to expect your site’s search experience to be “Google-like”. The intent of this blog post is to consolidate various uses of the Azure […]