In the last blog we had done the introduction to the files and folders of Sitecore 9.2 installation. Now lets create a Visual Studio solution to support this Sitecore instance. Open Visual Studio 2017 in an administrator mode. Click on File >> New >> Project. Select Web in left, we are creating ASP>NET Web Application. … Continue reading Creating a Visual Studio Solution
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Introduction to the Dummy Website series using Sitecore
Hello Everyone, as I had mentioned, I will create a series on creating a dummy website using Sitecore. I start it with this blog and will explain you what all we will be doing in this series. So first we will install Sitecore 9.2 instance "SitecoreDemo", you can follow my blog for Sitecore 9.2 installation. … Continue reading Introduction to the Dummy Website series using Sitecore
Multi-lingual with Sitecore
Like multi-site is an out of the box(OOTB) feature, multi-lingual is also one of it. This is very handy when you have to create a site in different languages. Also you can set up multi lingual site with minimal efforts. Let’s see a demo; we will add Spanish as an additional language. Go to Sitecore … Continue reading Multi-lingual with Sitecore
Multi-site with Sitecore
Happy New Year 2020 to you and your family. Have a nice year a head 🙂 Sitecore provides multi-site as an out of the box feature. We can use this feature in case our client has number of sites and s/he is willing to have all on Sitecore then using one Sitecore license, we can … Continue reading Multi-site with Sitecore
Sitecore 9.2 installation tips and known issues
I thought of writing this blog before going to the vacation, so that we start a new series in coming year (2020). There are many blogs that draft the steps involved in installation of Sitecore 9.2 instance. I have tried to jot down the tips and exceptions that helped me out during the installation. Note: … Continue reading Sitecore 9.2 installation tips and known issues
Auto generating Template.cs file using Unicorn and T4 templates
Whoever is working on Helix architecture knows the importance of Template.cs file in each feature or foundation modules. Now some developers are new to Helix architecture go for a manual creation of this file which utilizes good amount of efforts and there can be errors as well because a human is involved in the creation … Continue reading Auto generating Template.cs file using Unicorn and T4 templates
How to create a Custom Search Index in Sitecore 9.2
We create custom index for the below reasons: Fast responses. Index only content items which are required. Can change the indexing strategies based on the requirement. Manual indexing becomes easy because we don’t need to index whole tree to accommodate new items. Steps to create and index the new/custom search index Go to the SOLR … Continue reading How to create a Custom Search Index in Sitecore 9.2
Datasources in Sitecore
Datasources are used for various reasons and at various places. There are mainly 2 types of Data sources. Field Datasources These Datasources are one we discussed while discussing the field types. In the templates area each field type has a text box as Source. Some field types require a value in it and some don’t … Continue reading Datasources in Sitecore
Sitecore – Dynamic Placeholders
Dynamic Placeholders come handy when you need repetition of data or placeholders. Lets consider you have one placeholder ‘main’ in the layout. Then to distinguish the page types you have one-col, two-col and three-col renderings. And then finally you have the components/renderings which will fit in the content – lets use the same ones which … Continue reading Sitecore – Dynamic Placeholders
Sitecore – Placeholders and placeholder settings
As we learnt about the renderings in the last blog, we saw that for dynamic binding of renderings we need placeholders. Placeholders will help us to make the website as dynamic as possible but with this flexibility we might increase the chances of error as well so we will need to configure some settings so … Continue reading Sitecore – Placeholders and placeholder settings
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