Intro 📖 At this point, I think every Sitecore developer uses or has at least heard of Sitecore PowerShell Extensions (SPE). This powerful module for Sitecore is an auto-include for most teams and projects. The module is included with XM Cloud instances by default; if you use XM Cloud, then you already have SPE. If […]
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Using conditions with XM Cloud Form Builder
If you follow the release news from Sitecore, you’ve already noted the release of highly awaited XM Cloud Forms, which however did not have a feature of adding conditional logic. Until now. The good news is that now we can do it, and here’s how. See it in action Imagine you have a registration form […]
Extending General Link for Experience Editor Alternate Approach
We have already seen the experience editor part in the Extending General Link for Experience Editor article in detail. Hence, in this article, we will explore how we can extend the general link for experience editor mode with an alternate code approach in Sitecore 10.2.0 to resolve the higher environment and performance issues that occurred […]
Taxonomy: The Lifeblood of Site Search
I have found myself talking about taxonomy a lot recently. Taxonomy is a big job in a website project, but it’s something stakeholders may not consider early enough in an implementation project. I refer to taxonomy as a big job not only because it can be a lot of work, but also because it is […]
Going Beyond the Sitecore Mentor Program: Pushing Boundaries with Exclusive Mentorship
At this time many of you may have heard about the official Sitecore Mentor Program, run by Nicole Montero from the Sitecore Technical Marketing Team. Mentor Program celebrates its second year with a significant growth of positive outcomes and success stories from both mentors and mentees. I am going to share mine with you, and […]
Extending Layout Service in Sitecore Headless
Sitecore Headless uses a service called the Layout Service to deliver content from Sitecore to the front-end application in a headless architecture. It is responsible for rendering the layout of a page or a component and delivering the associated content to the client-side application. The Layout Service constructs and delivers a JSON representation encompassing the […]
Sitecore database post upgrade steps
In the first part of this 3 part blog series, we did a deep dive in to the prerequisites required for upgrading Sitecore databases from 9.3.0 to 10.3.1 and steps needed to prepare for it. In the second part, we went over the steps that need to be performed to do the actual upgrade of […]
Extending General Link for Experience Editor
The content editor and experience editor modes may seem similar at first glance, but they operate with different controls. In simpler terms, even though they look alike, the tools and functions they use are not the same, which can be a source of confusion for those working with them. We have already seen the content […]
Extending General Link for Content Editor
In Sitecore, the General Link field type is a versatile field that allows content authors to create links to internal or external resources. The General Link field provides a user-friendly interface for authors to select and configure links. Along with the key features listed below, I wanted to use “Telephone Link” as well, both in […]
XM Cloud Forms Builder
XM Cloud Forms Builder released Composable Forms Builder is now available with Sitecore XM Cloud. Let’s take a look at this one of the most anticipated modules for Sitecore’s flagship hybrid headless cloud platform. Historically, we had an external module called Web Forms for Marketers that one could install on top of their Sitecore instance […]
Sitecore database upgrade steps
Previously we did a deep dive in to the prerequisites required for Sitecore database upgrade and steps needed to prepare for it. In this second part of the 3 part blog series, we will go over the steps that need to be performed to do the actual upgrade of databases. Upgrade Steps Go to https://dev.sitecore.net/Downloads/Sitecore_Experience_Platform/103/Sitecore_Experience_Platform_103_Update1.aspx and […]
Lessons from the Front: Experience Edge and XM Cloud
Having worked on headless Sitecore projects for the last year and a half or so involving Experience Edge and/or XM Cloud, I’ve run into some…interesting things. In this post, I hope to share a few “lessons from the front” in the hopes that other teams out there can avoid the same mistakes and potentially save […]