Multitenancy with MVC and Areas When developing for Sitecore, you must always be conscious of those “other” people … that is, other tenants. As mentioned countless times before, Sitecore offers support for multiple tenants from a single running instance, but it does not provide process or filesystem isolation for assets developed for each tenant website. […]
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Sitecore 8 – Coveo Search
Written by Paul Plakut This is installment three of a multipart series on Sitecore 8 – A Modern Experience Manager. If you are wishing to start at the beginning of the series, please begin HERE. I left off with an explanation of FXM or Federated Experience Manager; a powerful way to extend Sitecore 8’s toolset […]
The Top 5 Reasons Why Content Strategy Matters
Something happened while we were all madly getting websites up and running. They evolved. At the same time sites evolved, users expectations evolved as they wanted more than just a simple site. Users recognized the value of sites that provide content. They began to visit sites that were less about mass marketing and more about […]
Using Analytics to Inform Your Customer Engagement Strategy
Analytics is a hot topic in the Customer Engagement world. Wes Moore of Teradata chaired a panel session on how to use analytics to drive customer engagement. The panelists included: John Dokes, CMO, Accuweather Leyda Hernandez, Director of Marketing, Priori Legal Merlin U Ward, Account Strategist, Renegade Here are what the panel had to say […]
Customer Engagement: Harnessing Disruption
This week I’m attending Customer Engagement World in New York. “The Customer is the New Boss” is Lawrence Dvorchik’s theme for Customer Engagement World. But hasn’t the customer always been the boss? We always say customer is the boss, but our engagements methods rarely reflect this. Too often companies are trying to engage in a one-way […]
Sitecore MVC Item Maze
The Maze If you have worked with Sitecore MVC you have probably noticed a few (to say the least) .Item properties in various contexts: Model.Item (where Model is a RenderingModel) Model.PageItem Model.Rendering.Item (or RenderingContext.Current.Rendering.Item) Model.Rendering.RenderingItem RenderingContext.Current.ContextItem PageContext.Current.Item @Html.Sitecore().CurrentItem And of course a good old Context.Item is always available. A maze indeed. Intrigued? Need a map? […]
Seeing Shifts: Gartner Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals 2014
Gartner has released its Magic Quadrant for Horizontal Portals 2014 and it contains some interesting surprises. For the first time in several years, Gartner has moved IBM and Liferay ahead of the other vendors in both vision and execution ability. The leaders for 2014 are still the same leaders as in 2013 and 2012. For […]
To The Controller And Back. Part 3 – DI and Multitenancy
[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]A lot has been written on Dependency Injection with Sitecore. In this blog post I want to specifically focus on one important aspect – multitenancy – and look into how we can make our Dependency Injection multi-tenant friendly and as much native to Sitecore as possible.[/su_note] Multitenancy All good commercial grade CMS systems support […]
Using Mapping to Show Up-to-Date Content
Sometimes I’m amazed with what some of our developers do. I’ve seen so many examples of code just thrown together. I’ve seen that code produce infinite loops, slow down load time by a factor of 10, and take down servers. So when I see an example of someone thinking through how to efficiently create code, […]
Show up-to-date content in search results with mapping
I am back to blogging after a long pause – way too modest term for more than 7 months of break. 🙂 But you know the days when you are swamped too deep into the project and don’t do anything other than breathing and work. Everyone, almost everyone, goes through it. Anyway, back to business […]