We recently audited a Sitecore solution for one of the Enterprise client and found that there were no Insert options were set on Standard Values of the templates widely used. Impact: The content authors mostly duplicate the existing page (worst idea as we duplicate few of the unnecessary datasource items in Sitecore) or has admin … Continue reading Unlocking the Power of Insert Options in Sitecore
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Get started with Sitecore SXA Development: A Beginner’s Guide
Sitecore Experience Accelerator (SXA) is a powerful tool that empowers developers and marketers to create and manage websites with ease. Whether you're new to Sitecore or an experienced developer, this blog will help you through the essential steps to kickstart your journey into Sitecore SXA development. 1. Understanding Sitecore SXASXA is a feature-rich framework that … Continue reading Get started with Sitecore SXA Development: A Beginner’s Guide
How to Use Sitecore Forms for creating a Contact Form
In this blog, we will create a Contact page, using the layout we have created for the site and the additional components which are required. the Basic focus will be the on the Contact Form that we will create using Sitecore Forms. To check the HTML and look and field of the contact page, refer … Continue reading How to Use Sitecore Forms for creating a Contact Form
Setting up Dictionary Items (Resource Strings)
As we know that we need to manage the Labels as well from Sitecore which call Resource Strings. The example is below: And many such labels, we need to create in Sitecore so that Content Author can manage these label's value. Earlier we use to create a template for Resource string and fetch it like … Continue reading Setting up Dictionary Items (Resource Strings)
Content Creation for the Layout – Part II
So to the continuation of the Content creation which we started in the previous blog, we need to create content for Logo, Copyright, Locations and Contact information. Go to Containers folder under Templates and create containers for Locations & Contact information For Locations For Contact Information Create Folder for Locations under Global. And add the … Continue reading Content Creation for the Layout – Part II
Understanding the components in the HTML template
Now considering that you have downloaded Logistico.zip, we will understand what all components we will be building. So once you have downloaded the zip, extract it. You will be able to see different HTML files & folders. For simplicity, we will concentrate on Home page first which means we will be concern about index.html file. … Continue reading Understanding the components in the HTML template
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
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
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