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
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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
What are Renderings? Which ones we frequently use?
Hope the learning series is quite easy to understand. Please reach out to me in case of any queries, will try to solve the queries at the earliest. In Sitecore CMS, every web page is split into multiple pieces/blocks and each of these blocks is rendered/presented by different components (a piece of functionality) separately. Every … Continue reading What are Renderings? Which ones we frequently use?
What is Layout in Sitecore and How can we create it?
Layouts are the scaffolding for your web pages, and will usually include the <head> and <body> tags for the markup. They often pull in styling and JavaScript code but have little markup themselves, instead it have multiple placeholders in which one can plug component renderings. All the layouts reside at /sitecore/layout/Layouts There are a few … Continue reading What is Layout in Sitecore and How can we create it?
What are Standard Values in Sitecore? And how they are useful?
As we completed our templates overview and field types in previous blogs, it's time to learn best practices that we need to keep in mind while designing templates. Now lets consider a scenario, if you have to create 100 sitecore items from one template and whatever name you give to the item can also be … Continue reading What are Standard Values in Sitecore? And how they are useful?
What are different types of Field types in Sitecore? – Part II
So this blog will be the continuation of the previous blog, where we completed the first 4 categories and now we will concentrate on the remaining 3. Those categories are: Link Drop down Multi values So to start learning these categories, we will need to create one more custom template. By now I am sure, … Continue reading What are different types of Field types in Sitecore? – Part II
What are different types of Field types in Sitecore? – Part I
This blog is very simple and it will concentrate on different type of Fields types which we have in Sitecore. Also Ill explain the some other fields like Source, Shared and Unversioned. So hope you are enjoying the series and I am able to deliver the content which you need. In case you are looking … Continue reading What are different types of Field types in Sitecore? – Part I
What is template and how to create it?
From this blog, we will start touching sitecore's basic building blocks. So first thing we need to create or build is a template without which we can not have our content in Sitecore. There 3 common types of template - Data, Parameter and Branch templates. The most common is Data template which will be covered … Continue reading What is template and how to create it?
How to resolve the error related to System.Web.Mvc dll version
So first we will understand why we are facing this issue. The simple answer is there is a mismatch in the dll version. So lets see where we found this mismatch. Go to Sitecore instance (C:\inetpub\wwwroot\LearningSitecore\Website\) Locate System.Web.Mvc.dll in bin folder and go to it's properties. In properties under Details tab check the version of … Continue reading How to resolve the error related to System.Web.Mvc dll version
Integrating Visual Studio solution and Sitecore instance
In this blog, lets create new Visual Studio solution and integrate it with the existing instance (http://learningsitecore/sitecore). We will create a simple Visual Studio solution. This will not be based on Helix principle so in case developers who know Helix principle are going through the blog then don't get it wrong. We will learn Helix principles … Continue reading Integrating Visual Studio solution and Sitecore instance
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