Recently I was trying to install Sitecore 9.1.1 on my machine and started getting an weird issue i.e. "Cannot validate argument on parameter 'Path'" during the xConnect installation piece. I went and checked if all the prerequisites were installed correctly and also ran few msi files as suggested in this link: https://sitecore.stackexchange.com/questions/22639/sif-exception-cannot-validate-argument-on-parameter-path But the solution … Continue reading Sitecore 9.1.1 installation error – Cannot validate argument on parameter ‘Path’
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Adding a Processor to getMediaUrlOptions Pipeline
Recently, I had to enable CDN for our Sitecore instances. After following the instructions available in Sitecore documentation, everything seemed to work fine. There was use case where we had to exclude PDF documents from the CDN route to keep the security for some of the documents in place. The suggested approach was to add a … Continue reading Adding a Processor to getMediaUrlOptions Pipeline
How to quickly mitigate Log4J critical vulnerability?
There is a lot of discussion around the Log4J CVE in the community. If you haven't heard or read about it then below is the good read https://support.sitecore.com/kb?id=kb_article_view&sysparm_article=KB1001391 The Sitecore versions that got affected are:Sitecore XP 9.2Sitecore XP 9.3Sitecore XP 10.0Sitecore XP 10.1Sitecore XP 10.2 Versions not affected Sitecore XP 9.1 and earlier versions are … Continue reading How to quickly mitigate Log4J critical vulnerability?
Creating custom submit action to send the emails in Sitecore Forms
This a common ask if you are not using EXM, you need to send thank you emails or emails to the admin team with the details of the submitted entry. This can be achieved in 2 steps: Create a class which inherits from Sitecore.ExperienceForms.Mvc.Processing.SubmitActions.SendEmail and write your custom logic.Add a Custom Submit Action under /sitecore/system/Settings/Forms/Submit … Continue reading Creating custom submit action to send the emails in Sitecore Forms
How to add custom Event handler in Sitecore?
We had a requirement of pushing some Sitecore items to third-party applications once those are publish on the Live (Web database). We had to attach a custom event handler in the Publishing event. Now the handler needs to be added in both publish:end and publish:end:remote, the former works well on single instances and CM server … Continue reading How to add custom Event handler in Sitecore?
Enabling the Suggester from SOLR for the Search box
We recently used SOLR suggester to implement autocomplete feature for our Site search. There are 3 steps involved to implement the Suggester:1. Add the Search component in solrconfig.xml file.2. Add the new field in Managed-Schema file.3. Call the Suggester from your Controller method. Add the Search component in solrconfig.xml filea. Go to the solrconfig.xml file … Continue reading Enabling the Suggester from SOLR for the Search box
How to resolve SOLR Heap size issue?
We recently started facing heap size issue on one of our SOLR instance. Error: Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space I thought it was easy fix by just adding more memory but it wasn't as forward as I thought. Before you jump to the solution I will share a good link which will explain you … Continue reading How to resolve SOLR Heap size issue?
Sitecore CM site size crosses 100 GB in space
We recently found that our CM Server C disk space was nearing to be full and to our surprise, we didn't have much media files or high sized files at website folder level. So we started troubleshooting the scenario. The strange part was the App_Data folder was 98GB+ and we thought it might be due … Continue reading Sitecore CM site size crosses 100 GB in space
Update the certificates in Sitecore 9.3
When the certificates added to the binding of your websites and the supporting website expires, you will see different error popping in Sitecore Analytic dashboard as the connection to the xConnect is broken. We faced something recently and thought I will jot down notes for self. Steps to follow: Install the certificate on the respective … Continue reading Update the certificates in Sitecore 9.3
Custom submit action for Sitecore Forms
I know there are many documentations on this already and wanted to thank the Sitecore Documentation team for a detailed document page on this topic. Please read the official document here. We had a request of having a registration form where once the user submits the form, the user must be created in the Sitecore … Continue reading Custom submit action for Sitecore Forms
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