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, […]
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Sitecore SXA: Using SXA Styles Feature
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 […]
Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) 9.3: Scriban Template in Rendering Variant
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. […]
Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Rendering Variants: Using Custom Tokens
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, […]
Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Rendering Variants: Wrap Link Field Around Another Field
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 […]
Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) Rendering Variants: Basic Usage
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 […]
Azure Search API with Sitecore Tips and Tricks
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 […]
Select Associated Content Dialog Not Showing After Component Added
Associated content is the datasource that we use for the components to use/display any kind of data that may come from items other than the current page item. This is one of the main features of Sitecore that provides data reusability and stores data in items other than a page item. We can either store […]
Insertion of Sitecore Dictionary Item and Usage
Within Sitecore, Dictionary is something that allows the developer to create a key-value pair. In this blog post, we will look at the different aspects of the dictionary domain concept. First, what is the key-value pair in Sitecore Dictionary? The key-value pair consists of two related data elements: Key-A constant that defines the data set. […]
Sitecore Experience Forms Phone Number Validation
If you’re using the Sitecore Experience Forms in your project, that is excellent. If you’ve tried using the Validators to manage phone numbers you may have come across some inadequacies with the out of the box validator. Namely, that it doesn’t place any limits on the number of digits you can enter. Fear not! Here […]
Programmatically Creating Synonym Maps in Azure Search with Sitecore
When performing searches in your Sitecore site, users may not know the exact term they should be using to get quality search results. For example, a user on a healthcare site may search the term “heart” expecting search results related to terms like “cardiovascular” or “chest.” Even further, some search results may not even contain […]
How to Wire up Autocomplete in Sitecore
Popular search engines make use of autocomplete. It helps predict what users are looking for. If a user is unsure of what they are trying to find, autocomplete can help users find exactly what they are trying to find. This blog post will show you how to provide this predictive feature for your search box […]