Sitecore
22 posts
Understand the docker setup for the XM Cloud development work
December 1, 2024
In this video, we will explore how the docker system is defined and services are configured for the XM Cloud development in the starter kit. The video explains the following points:
Read more →How to use GraphQL to fetch public URL and alt text for assets in Content Hub
May 31, 2024
During my recent XM Cloud project work, I came across the requirement to get the public URL and alt text for the assets uploaded in the Content Hub. Anyone who has experience with Content Hub, must know that the DAM connector for XM Cloud has configurations for mapping the fields between XM Cloud and Content […]
Read more →Quick fix: Lost content/renderings/templates in XM Cloud instance
April 25, 2024
Verify your serialized Sitecore item .YAML files are valid or not by pushing the serializations to local before deploying the solution to XM Cloud instance. BEST PRACTICE FOR XM CLOUD Recently we encountered the issue which put everyone on high heart beats when we learned that our XM Cloud instance which is getting prepared for […]
Read more →How to use the tunnel command for XM Cloud development
April 16, 2024
Are you a Sitecore developer looking for ways to connect your headless application running locally from the XM Cloud environment as the editing host? Look no further than the tunnel command in Sitecore CLI. By utilizing this feature, you can easily connect your local application to the editing host in XM Cloud and streamline your […]
Read more →Quick fix: XM Cloud Pages the remote name could not be resolved
April 10, 2024
Learn how to fix the issue of editing host not resolved.
Read more →Fix: Error (hresult:c00cee2b, message: Failed to commit configuration changes)
May 18, 2023
Issue While working on Dockerized Sitecore 10.2 project, I faced a weird issue of the CM container restarting repeatedly. Upon initial investigation, I found that the CM instance was not able to connect to the SQL server and hence it was keeping restarting. With this error, I was looking for the fixes to connect the […]
Read more →JSS Architecture brief
March 16, 2023
The JSS is part of the headless development suite of Sitecore products, which allows modern development workflows for producing applications and systems which follow the Jamstack architecture. Applications developed with JSS consume the content, and personalization, from Sitecore, delivered through Sitecore Headless Services or Sitecore Experience Edge for XM. The JSS also consumes data from […]
Read more →Best Practice: Working with Data Templates, Fields and items
January 21, 2022
While working on the Sitecore projects, I have found that many developers do not follow best practices while creating templates/fields/items which should cause issues later on. Once the project started with bad naming conversions, it is hard to change the name of templates/fields/items as well as the folder structure. Here in the article, I’m providing […]
Read more →Introduction: Sitecore JavaScript Rendering SDK (JSS)
December 21, 2021
The JSS, Sitecore JavaScript Rendering SDKs, represent a set of JavaScript packages that add first-class support for JavaScript frameworks and enable the development of modern applications that consume data from Sitecore. JSS extends the dynamic, component-based layout model of Sitecore to the front-end frameworks for building robust applications. To undetstand the value front-end frameworks add […]
Read more →Quick fix: unable to verify the first certificate – JSS setup error
December 21, 2021
For the very first time when I started setting up the JSS application on my local system, most of the steps went well. However, when I executed the .\up.ps1 command, after downloading all the images and setting up the containers, I got the following error for the certificate. After putting some thoughts, I was reminded […]
Read more →Caching: Vary by data – How does it work?
November 28, 2021
Sitecore providers different caching options for the renderings to cache the HTML. One of them is the Vary by Data. Most of the developers consider that when we enable this option for caching, the HTML of the rendered rendering is cached by the data source item and some other factors which generate the cache key. […]
Read more →Apply .xdt transforms in Dockerized Sitecore
September 10, 2021
Hello, Sitecore devs! Recently I got a chance to work on a Sitecore project where the local development environment is on Docker. We set up the project with Sitecore 10.1 on Docker and started the development work. At one level we stuck up with the configuration file changes required to apply during the docker image […]
Read more →Setup Publishing Service Module for Dockerized Sitecore
July 25, 2021
Today, in this article, I will showcase how you can set up the Publishing Service Module for the Dockerized Sitecore. Here in this article, I’ll present step by step setup of the publishing service module inside the dockerized Sitecore. Let’s get started!!!! I am using the Boilerplate code repository below for this tutorial, provided for […]
Read more →Setup Coveo for Dockerized Sitecore
July 22, 2021
Challenge I just started working on a new project with Sitecore + Docker. In this project, one of the requirements is to use the Coveo search instead of Solr search. While we have a regular Sitecore setup for the development or production, the Coveo setup is straightforward. But I have Docker as the development environment […]
Read more →How to use SXA site definition Environment field
July 21, 2021
SXA is an excellent framework used to speed up the production of websites and reuse the components, layouts, and templates across different sites. While working on SXA with either single site or multi-site architecture, we often require to set up different domain values for each environment like development, staging, and production. When we create any […]
Read more →Fix: Invoke-WebRequest: The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel
July 19, 2021
In this post, I’ll show you a quick fix for the error generated during the Docker image build for Sitecore. The error you get: Invoke-WebRequest: The request was aborted: Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel How to fix: This is generally the error due to the failed verification of SSL/TLS for the nuget.org feed SSL […]
Read more →Fix: Sitecore Experience Analytics shows ‘[unknown channel type]’ and [unknown channel group]’
March 29, 2021
I was working on Sitecore 9.3 and we have deployed our website on the production environment configured on Azure portal in PaaS model. Everything was good, but Marketing team was not happy as they where seeing [unknown channel type] and [unknown channel group] in the Experience Analytics. Please see the blow images: So, the task […]
Read more →Install Sitecore SxA module on Sitecore 10.1 XP1 on local system (Video)
March 17, 2021
In this video series, you will learn about how to install the Sitecore SxA module on Sitecore 10.1 XP1 topology on the local development server. Install Sitecore 10.1 prerequisites and Solr 2. Install Sitecore 10.1 XP1 topology and Sitecore SxA module on top of that Happy Sitecore learning!!!
Read more →Customization: Sitecore – Export the interaction data to a custom/external database
February 25, 2021
Challenge While working on the Sitecore project, the client had a very specific requirement that they want to export the user interaction data to an external database, and from that database, they wanted to create reports using some reporting tools like Spotfire or Tableau. Initially, we had requirements to export Interactions, Goals, and PageViewEvents data […]
Read more →Customization: Sitecore Channelizer
February 1, 2021
In my previous post Refactored: How Sitecore assigns the channel to interaction, I explained the internals of Sitecore for setting the channel to the interaction. Problem While working on the Sitecore 9.3 project, the client put the requirements that they want to see that which channel is performing better based on the referring sites from […]
Read more →Interview Questions – Introduction to Sitecore
January 30, 2021
What is CMS? – Web Content Management System (software) enables non-technical CMS users to maintain the content driving a web solution without the need to understand its technical implementation. What is Sitecore? – Sitecore is a complete ASP.NET-based development platform and web content management system (CMS). Sitecore is a high-performance, scalable, extensible ASP.NET web CMS […]
Read more →Refactored: How Sitecore assigns the channel to interaction
January 28, 2021
Some background – What are Channels in Sitecore? According to Sitecore documentation, Channels are the paths that contacts use to interact with your brand through campaigns and face-to-face interactions. There are various ways that contacts can interaction with your brand (website) through: An app on a mobile phone By clicking on an advertisement on a […]
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