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We are excited to share the news that Perficient has acquired Brainjocks, a leading digital consultancy with a strong Sitecore platform focus. Brainjocks is well-known in the Sitecore ecosystem for their outstanding skills and expertise. The team is a trusted advisor to leading Fortune 1000 customers, enabling them to maximize ROI through digital strategy, technical, […]

Can I use my notes? Is it drastically different from previous exams? Am I the only one freaking out? These are all questions I found myself asking when preparing to take the new Sitecore Certification Exam 9. After recently completing the exam, however, I can tell you the answer to all the previous questions is […]

Find Your Sitecore Job on Perficient’s Award-Winning Team Why do people love working on the Sitecore team at Perficient? If you ask our colleagues, you might hear words like “teamwork, trust, and fun.” Perficient has been partnering with Sitecore for more than a decade, and as a Platinum Sitecore partner, we are dedicated to both […]

For the past several years, I have had a video series guiding marketers through accelerated training on Sitecore. While I have moved through fundamental marketing set up over these episodes, I have always promised to take a look at Sitecore’s powerful Path Analyzer. At Perficient, as a Sitecore Platinum Partner, I enjoy the luxury of […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]