Innovation + Product Development

The SCORE team is busy working on v1.5 and the main theme for this release is Sitecore 8. Last week I was enabling (SPEAK-ifying) our Page Editor ribbon extensions and this post is a collection of thoughts and tips that I gathered along the way. Moving Parts [su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]There’s a lot of moving parts and […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]I like Web Forms For Marketers. I thinks it’s a great module and definitely the first option to consider when implementing marketing forms on Sitecore.[/su_note] This rather short post is a collection of gotchas that I and the teams I work with came across when implementing WFFM with Sitecore MVC. Controller Rendering for GET […]

Rendering Model It’s very common to inherit your Sitecore MVC models from RenderingModel. The pipelines will call the Initialize() on it and you’ll get access to the rendering’s context item via Model.Item (read more about it here). It’s also not uncommon to reuse your rendering models as a submission container for a custom form in […]

Page Editor Ribbon Button In the old days of Sitecore 6.x and 7.x you might have extended the Content Editor and Page Editor ribbons to give your content editors and marketers an easy access to a great customization of yours. Maybe you built a dialog to expose page metadata. Maybe you built a copy language […]

Software development? What is it? Well, it is everything that must be done during the creation of software (and to maintain it and keep it working), or as Wikipedia defines it “it includes all that is involved between the conception of the desired software through to the final manifestation of the software”. We can engage […]

In part 2 of this 3 part series, I will cover how to test a custom action using Sitecore FakeDb. When testing a custom action, you are testing that action alone – so I am not testing the rules engine itself, nor am I testing a specific condition (that was covered in part 1 of […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]In part 1 of this series we built a functional prototype of a dynamic product detail page. In part 2 we componentized it and learned to share product data with all components on the page. It’s now a fully functional solution but it’s not yet complete.[/su_note] Web Forms For Marketers It’s not uncommon to […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]In part 1 of this series we built a functional prototype of a dynamic product detail page. It’s an MVC route with a controller behind it that stages page context and kicks off rendering pipeline(s) for the product detail page template that is Page Editor editable. We did it this way and did not […]

Scenario Your Sitecore site needs to display product detail pages. Maybe it’s retail, maybe it’s e-commerce, maybe it’s a catalogue with (or without) online sample orders, maybe it’s an inventory listing with inquiry forms, maybe it’s something else. The detail pages may have same look and feel for all products, may vary per category or […]

In the past couple of years, we have delivered several projects successfully which were based on MVC + KnockoutJS, they all applied the same structure or pattern, so I was thinking to get them out from several projects which we might reuse in the future projects, here is what I’d like to share, you may […]

Create & configure an IOS project in Jenkins To create an iOS project in Jenkins, I recommend to get the project from a version control server, like git, gitlab, svn, etc. Here I use gitlab to clone my projects into Jenkins.

Jenkins is a common-used open source continuous integration solution for many companies, it works well for a large range of projects, but Jenkins is not the first choice for Apple developers. Apple provided an independent CI server called Xcode Server which only works for Apple projects. But for many managers, it is always a better […]