Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore 8.1’

This blog will discuss some tips and tricks concerning the use of images with Sitecore which are important for content authors, especially those who may be having trouble getting their image to appear on their pages. The path to an image is important because it is how the image is found on an HTML page […]

The Datasource Location field on renderings in Sitecore supports a nice feature that I’ve taken for granted–relative paths. For example, if you want content authors to put the data items for a particular rendering under the item that the rendering is on in the content tree, you can specify the Datasource Location as ./. The Treelist field has a […]

After fixing the controller not found exception following our client’s recent upgrade to Web Forms for Marketers 8.1, all of our forms continued to throw an exception on load: Compilation Error. CS0104: ‘Constants’ is an ambiguous reference between ‘Sitecore.Forms.Mvc.Constants’ and ‘SitecoreDemo.Constants’. Web Forms for Marketers installs several views and editor templates into your Sitecore installation at […]

We recently upgraded one of our clients from Sitecore 8.0 to Sitecore 8.1 and had to upgrade to Web Forms for Marketers 8.1 rev. 160304 as part of the upgrade. After upgrading WFFM, all of our forms started to throw the following exception: The controller for path ‘{{form path}}’ could not be found. The project has a custom Controller Factory that uses […]

We recently worked to help one of our customers set up xDB Cloud and had some great findings come out of the project. While the Sitecore documentation is very good in some areas, in some of the newer areas, like xDB Cloud, the documentation can be a little unclear or even lacking at times.  Here […]

Recently, I posted about issues that ran into during an upgrade of 8.0 update 4 rev. 150621 to 8.1 update 2 rev. 160302. That article is available here. That article did not cover the actual process of upgrading and I thought it may be beneficial to provide a walk-through of that. To start off, I went […]

Sitecore 8 introduced a new Explore Mode option to the Experience Editor that allows content authors to test their digital marketing strategy by simulating visits to their site as different users. One feature that has been particularly useful for me is the ability to simulate different IP addresses to test GeoIP integration in components I’m […]

Dependency Injection, specifically MVC controller injection, is stupid simple to set up in a vanilla ASP.NET MVC site. For you guys out there that are only working in Sitecore part of the time (or for the first time), however, it may seem like an impossible feature to set up. I mean, you don’t even have […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]There are parts of Sitecore APIs that are well understood, widely used, and probably won’t change without a really good reason. And then there are relatively new APIs – some introduced along with new product features (e.g. xDB in 7.5, Content Testing in 8.0) and others added to support the shift in the underlying […]