Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

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 […]

In our previous article, we discussed a custom field type we created to allow content managers to crop images for the various device break points in your responsive design. The community asked for more, and we listened – so we have made a neat enhancement to this feature to make it even more powerful. ALT […]

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 […]

HIPAA law is often a topic of conversation and can be a little confusing. This session offered a quick overview and review of the HIPAA law and how it relates to Sitecore hosting and development. What is HIPAA? Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act Started in 1996 Establishes national standards to protect an individual’s medical […]

Time is money.  Therefore, a slow site can cause you to lose money.  At Sitecore Symposium, I learned about some goals for optimizing your performance, tools to help you measure, and suggestions to get you there. Why performance matters It affects your search rankings It affects your bounce rates 32% bounce rate when your performance […]

In this session, we learned how to use Helix and ways in which it is used incorrectly.  It also highlighted some of the updates in Helix 2.0 and showed us what to look forward to in future versions. Read more about my key takeaways on the patterns, anti-patterns, and smells of Sitecore Helix. Helix Helix […]

Senior Sitecore Product Manager Adam Najmanowicz and Senior Sitecore Tech Evangelist Mark van Aalst gave an update on three key improvements made to the upcoming release of SXA. In addition to full JSS integration and a demo of a new, out-of-the-box filtering search component, Adam described changes made to the platform around the front end […]