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
Technical
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
Default Language for Sitecore Content Author
I am currently working on a multilingual project which uses around 12 different languages as part of Global presence. We thought it will be great if we can set a particular language as a default one for respective Content Authors ex. if we can set German as default language for the user who will take … Continue reading Default Language for Sitecore Content Author
Sitecore Module – AddThis Plugin
Another module which our team created at Sitecore Hackathon 2021 was for Marketers. The tracking of the Sharing buttons. There are few paid thirdparty tools which provides this feature but there is also a free service which we normally use in our project and thought lets create a Sitecore Module for the same. Description The … Continue reading Sitecore Module – AddThis Plugin
Sitecore Module – Quick Version Creator
We participated in Sitecore Hackathon 2021 and thought of adding an enhancement to the existing Sitecore XP. While thinking what we can add as a feature, I remembered my stakeholders coming to me in past to create new language version of the page with the existing data. Now this totally depends on the Templates configuration … Continue reading Sitecore Module – Quick Version Creator
