Last year, I released my first Sitecore module “Placeholder Dropdown.” It changes the placeholder name input text box into a dropdown when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor. It helps you remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column.’ I’m happy to announce version 3 is now […]
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Choose a Sitecore Placeholder Name Instead of Typing V2
Earlier this year, I released my first Sitecore module “Placeholder Dropdown“. It changes the placeholder name input text box into a dropdown when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor. It helps you remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column’. Version 2 is now available in the Sitecore […]
Choose a Sitecore Placeholder Name Instead of Typing
A while back, I wrote an article demonstrating how to create a dropdown list for placeholders when adding a new component to presentation details in the content editor. It changes the input box to a dropdown so you don’t have to remember if your placeholder name was ‘three-left-col’ or ‘three-col-left’ or ‘three-left-column’. It was long […]
Display placeholder names in Sitecore Experience Editor
When working in the Sitecore Experience Editor, sometimes it can be a bit annoying to find various placeholders on a page. This can also cause some frustrations for content authors if they aren’t sure what they are looking for. To help with this, I wrote a bit of javascript to display the names of the […]
Placeholders in the CMC – Business Objects(II)
This is the second part of “Placeholders in the CMC – Business Objects”, please see the first part here 10. Placeholder List Table Placeholder Variables Name Variable Description Title %SI_NAME% Report title, it is same as report rpt name ID %SI_ID% InfoStore SI_ID value, System ID Owner %SI_OWNER% Report owner who schedules the report DateTime […]
Placeholders in the CMC – Business Objects(I)
Usually, after we finish developing a Crystal Report rpt with sufficient unit testing according to the report requirement, the next step is to upload it onto the CMC (Central Management Console) or InfoView server for scheduling. During the scheduling, we will be asked to walk through several steps (recurrence, schedule for, notification, database connection, filters, […]