Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

Marketers and friends, Here’s the quick start if you want to get watching the training. If you want to hear me ramble like Grandpa Simpson, feel free to read on. Starting with… I’m old. Well, okay, if age is in the mind I am still 15, but as far as a marketer goes, I used […]

I recently ran into an issue where in some of my client’s (more active) environments we were not seeing any recent interactions in the Experience Profile. After much back and forth with Sitecore support it was finally determined that this setting – <setting name=”ContentSearch.SearchMaxResults” value=”500″ /> –  in the Sitecore.ContentSearch.config was the culprit. By default […]

I passed the new Sitecore® Professional Developer Certification exam, and I’d like to share some of my experiences. It’s a two-hour exam but you are likely to finish it in one hour or less. 70 multiple choice questions in total, no notes allowed. The exam questions are not very hard, but they are very comprehensive. […]

An introduction to Sitecore Speak featuring a basic example application. The ability to create Sitecore applications is fundamental in the Sitecore world as most projects have the need for custom functionality within Sitecore. Traditionally, the way to create Sitecore applications relied on using the Sheer UI framework. However, it has several issues which makes using it really hard and tedious, some of them are: Little […]

We have a client that is going through the early stages of developing renderings for their Sitecore solution. Naturally, they have a ton of questions as they are learning as they go – which is great. One of the questions I received from them was how to change the default icon and thumbnail for their […]

If you have been reading other posts of mine or following along on my @Sitecordial YouTube series you will have heard this caveat before: Personalization of your web content (be it for campaigns, based on channel, or behavioral profiling) takes time, and there are prerequisites. Getting to personalization takes planning and workshops like (for example) […]

When you start a new Sitecore project, chances are that you and your team are going to be creating a lot of new templates. If you’ve got a custom base template that a lot of your templates inherit from, it’s repetitive to select your base template each time you create a new template. In this […]

Sitecore allows you to manage a user’s profile in the User Manager. The fields for the user’s profile comes from the User template found in the Core database at /sitecore/templates/System/Security/User. While developing a proof of concept, I found that if you create your own user profile template and inherit from the built-in User template, fields […]

Did you miss our webinar earlier this month, Accelerate Sitecore DevOps on Microsoft Azure? If so, check out our on-demand recording! Perficient’s George Chang and Tim McCarthy covered the benefits of Sitecore DevOps on Microsoft Azure, including using Microsoft Azure and Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to: Automate the build-out of Sitecore environments Automate code […]

I’ve recently been sparring with a very annoying Sitecore error. It occurs only in Experience Editor, after the Rendering Parameter properties dialog of a rendering is opened, and the user then tries to save the page.

The sample site that comes out of the box with Sitecore is still running on XSLT renderings and Web Forms sublayouts. Maybe you just finished the Sitecore Developers eLearning Course and want to play with Sitecore and MVC some more, or you’re starting your first Sitecore project and want something to do on the side. […]

If you are setting up behavioral personalization in Sitecore, there are a few subtle controls that can make a dramatic difference in both how your profiles are tracked, and how your content marketers can assign cards to pages. One aspect that came into play as of 8.1 is Decay Rate, which I covered in a […]