In my previous post in this mini-series, I went over the creation of the Simple Workflow and its states. In this post, we will go over how to automatically place Sitecore items into the Draft state upon creation. We will cover two approaches to implementing this: setting the Draft state in the Standard Values of […]
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Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 2 – Workflow States
Now that we have covered what a workflow is in Sitecore, let’s jump into configuring workflow states in a custom workflow. Again, the number of workflow states you need is entirely up to the requirements of your business process for getting content approved. This post will walk through the creation of a simple workflow. This […]
Implementing Workflow in Sitecore: A Mini-Series Part 1 – Overview
You or your company have chosen to use Sitecore as your CMS of choice. Hooray you made a good decision! Making new pages for your site is easy! It’s truly the bread and butter of using Sitecore: ease of content creation. Simply create a page, populate it with components, and then publish. Ta da! It’s […]
Mass Deleting Items in Sitecore
When deleting a Sitecore item with many descendants, I get nervous if the operation times out. How much actually got deleted? Was the deletion successful? Instead of continuously re-trying to delete the item, I wrote up a simple PowerShell script that will inform you line by line what items are getting deleted successfully. Printed out […]
Sitecore Content-as-a-Service Actually Makes a Lot of Sense
Sitecore revealed a few more details about their upcoming content-as-a-service (CaaS) offering at the virtual Sitecore Symposium 2020. Based on my (very anecdotal) reading of Twitter and Slack, responses from the Sitecore community seemed to be mixed. Marketers and developers alike seemed to be cautiously optimistic about Sitecore’s new direction. So what is Sitecore content-as-a-service? […]
Changing SXA Placeholders Post Content Creation
Continuing Sitecore development on an already live site can bring about new challenges that did not exist prior to go-live. For example, if a particular component is already being used by content authors, you do not want to introduce changes to said component that would break pre-existing uses of it on various pages. The Problem […]
Sitecore Solr Collections Using SearchStax – Part 1
This article explains the steps needed to set up Solr Cloud collections for your Sitecore environment using SearchStax. Assuming you already have Solr Cloud Manager Environment set in SearchStax, follow the below steps to set up the Solr Cloud environment. 1. Upload Solr Configurations The first step is to get the compatible Solr schema and […]
Video: 8 Ways to Crank up your Sitecore Authoring and Marketing Experience
Whether you are launching a new Sitecore XP environment in the next few months or are wanting to enhance your authoring and marketing experience, this video should be a whistle stop on your enhancements campaign tour. Originally this content was to be presented live in Budapest at SUGCON 2020 but then, well, you know. Like […]
The Decoupled Future of Sitecore Headless Services
The Basics of Headless “Headless” has been a buzzword for more than a few years in the CMS space, but what exactly is a headless content management system? In short, content management systems (CMS) have traditionally handled content management and rendering (creating markup and serving to web browsers or other clients). A headless CMS only […]
Improve Engagement with Web Push Notifications and Sitecore Marketing Automation
Web Push Notifications are supported by all modern desktop browsers and Android mobile devices. With better view and click through rates and less regulatory hurdles then email, they have become a popular channel for digital marketers trying to reach their audiences. A brief introduction to Web Push Notifications To leverage Web Push Notifications, you need […]
Sitecore 10 – The Dawning of a New Containerized Day
Sitecore 10.0 made its way into the world a few weeks back. While it wasn’t a dramatic user-facing major release, it was a massive release for Sitecore becoming more cloud-native and looking ahead to the future of the Sitecore development experience. Cloud-Native? You may be asking, what does “cloud-native” mean? Well, for that, we can turn […]
SXA Scriban: Creating Custom Embedded Function in Scriban
With the release of Sitecore SXA 9.3.0, it came with Scriban Templates. They are used in Rendering Variants and can provide many benefits to the Content Authors as well as Developers. With additions like Scriban, Content Authors will have more power over the presentation of Content in Sitecore. There are already many embedded functions provided […]