How to ensure your toolset matches your vision, team and long term goals. Seems common sense right? Use the right tool for the right purpose. However, in the DXP and Drupal space, we often see folks trying to fit their project to the tool and not the tool to the project. There are many modules, […]
Site Architecture
Content Hub: Data Model Simplified
Sitecore Content Hub is a world-class platform for centralizing and managing content across various channels. It helps businesses organize and streamline often chaotic, messy content operations. It does this by providing an architecture or schema for content and its interconnections. A schema defines how different types of assets are structured, organized, related to each other. […]
Enabling Dynamic Media Feature For AEM Custom Components
Dynamic Media is one of the versatile tools provided by Adobe. Previously, it was known as Scene7. It has strong Asset editing and authoring tools capabilities. It is based on a Cache delivery network, which loads the contents to improve page load time and renders the right image renditions correctly resized and optimized. Dynamic Media allows […]
Enhancing Test Coverage with Data Driven Testing in C#
A testing technique known as “Data Driven Testing” (DDT) uses test data that is pulled from external data sources like databases, CSV files, Excel files, or other structured data formats. Data-driven testing in C# enables you to run the same set of test scripts with different sets of data, which can greatly improve your test […]
Handling Not Allowed Reflection Method in Sitecore
Recently, to meet project requirements, we customized and expanded the functionality of the “General Link” feature by incorporating a new “Telephone Link” feature. Everything was working correctly on our local project instance, but we got the below-listed error when the changes were deployed on the higher environment. Exception: Sitecore.Exceptions.AccessDeniedException Message: Calling Fieldtypes.ExtendedGeneralLink.ExtendedGeneralLinkForm.OnModeChange method through reflection […]
Which Components Are Available Out of the Box with Sitecore XP Using SXA? A Quick Reference Guide
When planning a new website, a web development team must identify the essential components required for completion. These pieces are often called components. Assuming the site is being built using a Content Management System (CMS), most, if not all of these platforms will have their own set of “out of the box” components. Out of […]
Sling Mappings++ Large Lists and Mapping Arrays
As all AEM Developers know, AEM, and more-so the underlying JCR, has limitations on how many children a single parent can have before we start to see performance issues. First in the UI, and then more critically in the ability to look-up and manage content nodes themselves. When designing for a net-new AEM website, this […]
Perficient: Gold Sponsor at Vercel’s Next.js Conference 2023 – Join Us In-Person or Virtually!
At Perficient, we’re thrilled to announce that we are a Gold Sponsor of this year’s Next.js Conference, hosted by Vercel. This much-anticipated event will take place on October 26th at the iconic SF Jazz in San Francisco, and just like last year, it will feature a vibrant virtual component for attendees to stream for free. […]
Why Do You Need to Know Backend for Frontend (BFF) Pattern?
Our typical problem arises when we wish to incorporate an API into our mobile app. Consider the situation in which you need to create a mobile app for an existing system. The system was one monolithic solution that exposed an API that exclusively served the web client. The client’s proposal is not restricted to new mobile apps, […]
Making Sense of Sitecore’s Headless Options
If you read my last article, the big deal with headless, you know that the big deal is performance. The architecture you get leveraging a headless architecture with Next.js front end is fundamentally superior to MVC. When you are ready to make the move to headless, you may be surprised that there isn’t just one […]
My Very First JavaScript Code
“I can Talk JavaScript, I can walk JavaScript, I can Laugh JavaScript because JavaScript is a very Funny Language.” It’s really a fun writing JavaScript code in the beginning like you can show a pop-up alert, can set a condition to show results and you can also do mathematical calculations in the console. Just press […]
Optimizely Configured Commerce – Technical Tips
A small tip can be a lifesaver when it comes to customizing a platform or an existing system. It’s crucial to first grasp the implementation details and then follow the correct path to add new functionality or make changes to existing features. However, if you’re unfamiliar with a particular area of the system and are […]