Posts Tagged ‘Sitecore’

A few months ago I blogged about helping TDS clean up after file replacement. Today I learned that TDS needs some more help and decided to give it a hand. Built Files When TDS builds your TDS.Master project it goes through various steps to copy your solution files, do file replacements, perform XML config transforms, […]

Chromes Sitecore uses special markers – chromes – to tell apart placeholders, renderings, fields, and edit frames in the Page Editor. A chrome is server-generated and marks the beginning and the end of a potentially editable section. It also provides all the essential metadata for the client side scripts to rely on: The metadata for […]

Carol Rozwell, VP Distinguished Analyst at Gartner provided insights into her research on human brain activity and how this knowledge can be used to help increase digital experience in the solutions we deliver at the Gartner Portal, Content and Collaboration Summit last week. She answered to key questions. What does recent research teach us about […]

This past week Sitecore made some announcements regarding their CXM platform.  First up, Sitecore is changing the name of the product from Customer Engagement Platform (CEP) to Sitecore Experience Platform.  I sat through a partner briefing about this and still don’t have a clear picture of why the name change.  But maybe this new name allows […]

What do you do when you need extra resources (JavaScript, CSS) brought into your Content Editor and Page Editor experience? Maybe you have developed a custom field type that requires Google Maps API. Maybe many of your renderings use an external library or a client side helper of your own when in IsPageEditorEditing(). Whatever the […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]Now available in the Sitecore Marketplace[/su_note] This will be the last post in the series about creating a custom field type with support for Content and Page Editor (see part1, part2, and part3) Basics There are two main pieces to an XML control: Markup. It will be a simplification but think of it as […]

It all starts with a series of problems – I want a Sitecore instance in MVC, I want to use Web Forms For Marketers (WFFM) with the MVC context, and I want my content authoring experience through the page editor to be straight forward. Well, thanks to this blog post from Chris van de Steeg, […]

Just as I was to place in some finishing touches on what was the first version of this blog post when I come across Tim Braga’s post on the same topic. Tim covers the details they performed to integrate their site with their CDN provider. This is a great post on the subject. So with […]

Written by Nikhil Deshmukh I have a CMS but… There is a notion that a content management system will act like a silver bullet and will solve all of your content problems. While this can be true after initially starting to use your CMS, sometime down the line there will inevitably be a need for […]

I recently ran into an issue while implementing a site on Sitecore 7.1.  I searched the interwebs for an existing solution to my issue, and discovered a number of posts identifying the same issue for the initial release of 7.0.  All of these posts indicated that the issue was resolved in Update 3 of Sitecore […]

[su_note note_color=”#fafafa”]Now available in the Sitecore Marketplace[/su_note] In part 1 I mentioned the requirements for our custom field to become a law abiding Sitecore citizen. In part 2 I built a complete prototype of the YouTube video picker dialog that we will later convert to the XML control. It’s time to apply for passport. TL;DR […]

GeoIP GeoIP via MaxMind is a great feature of Sitecore Analytics. Everything is built-in and all you need to do is inspect various attributes of the VisitorDataSet.VisitsRow, such as Region, Country, City, MetroCode, etc. Here’s how it works (simplified, of course). Sitecore runs UpdateGeoIpData as part of two Analytics pipelines: and In the Sitecore MVC […]