In digital landscape, a seamless and efficient website user experience is paramount. Sitecore's SXA (Sitecore Experience Accelerator) comes to the rescue with its versatile search component, enabling web developers and marketers to create powerful search functionalities without the need for extensive coding. In this blog, we'll go through the benefits and implementation of the Sitecore … Continue reading Enhancing Website User Experience with Sitecore SXA Search Component
Author: RKenkre
Extending List Manager
In the recent project that I was working on, we got a request that whenever a List is imported from the CSV file, the client wanted to see two more columns which were related to their business and not something OOTB from Sitecore. So our journey began with adding a custom facet to the Contact … Continue reading Extending List Manager
Sitecore and Brandfolder Integration
We had a requirement of integrating the Sitecore instance with Brandfolder for managing the assets. Brief about the Brandfolder: Brandfolder is a DAM (Digital Asset Management) which helps marketers and creatives manage and distribute all of their assets, and understand how they're performing. The idea of the integration was to upload all the images and … Continue reading Sitecore and Brandfolder Integration
Creating Error pages for Sitecore SXA site
There are lot of blogs which tell us how to create static error pages for Sitecore SXA sites. I know that everyone follows the Sitecore Documentation here - https://doc.sitecore.com/xp/en/developers/sxa/18/sitecore-experience-accelerator/generate-a-custom-static-error-page.html But everyone doesn't know is that this is not straight forward every time. We faced some weird issues in our project and had to use a … Continue reading Creating Error pages for Sitecore SXA site
Enabling Anonymous Contacts to be Indexed
I was recently working on a PoC and I was trying to get the information in the Experience Profile. After few hours, I realized that even after browsing pages in different browsers, my contacts weren't showing up in Experience Profile. The Sitecore Experience Analytics was showing me the data which meant that the xConnect was … Continue reading Enabling Anonymous Contacts to be Indexed
Rebuilding xDB Index for xConnect in Sitecore
Recently I had a scenario where I had to rebuild the xDB Index, initially I thought it will be through Control Panel and the way we rebuild other indexes in SOLR. But to my surprise, it wasn't using Sitecore Control Panel or SOLR's dashboard, it was using the Command Prompt on the server where your … Continue reading Rebuilding xDB Index for xConnect in Sitecore
Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 3 (Gated Website)
Now let's assume that every page in our website is gated that means you need to login to the site with valid credentials to access any page of the site. To do this you can follow the Sitecore blog. Once you mark the website as required login and give the link of the Login page … Continue reading Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 3 (Gated Website)
Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 2 (Login)
In this blog, we will create a Login page which will help registered users to login to the site. If you want to see how to create Registration work then you should refer this blog. The Login process idea for this blog has been taken from Sitecore site. To design a Login Page, we will … Continue reading Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 2 (Login)
Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 1 (Registration)
Creating the Authentication Module for Sitecore Site requires below pages and functionalities: Registration Page Login Page Reset Password Update Profile The above functionalities help the end customers to login to site and access the pages. Let's assume that you have a Sitecore SXA website and all the pages are gated. To setup the login for … Continue reading Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 1 (Registration)
PowerShell to update Alt tag for Images in Media Library
The alt tag for the images plays a very important role in the SEO of the web pages which has image tag. So we thought of adding the token in the standard values of the image template (/sitecore/templates/System/Media/Unversioned/Image/__Standard Values). This will handle the Alt tags for all the new images that will be added to … Continue reading PowerShell to update Alt tag for Images in Media Library
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