Recently I had a scenario where I had to rebuild the xDB Index, initially I thought it will be through Control Panel and the way we rebuild other indexes in SOLR. But to my surprise, it wasn't using Sitecore Control Panel or SOLR's dashboard, it was using the Command Prompt on the server where your … Continue reading Rebuilding xDB Index for xConnect in Sitecore
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Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 3 (Gated Website)
Now let's assume that every page in our website is gated that means you need to login to the site with valid credentials to access any page of the site. To do this you can follow the Sitecore blog. Once you mark the website as required login and give the link of the Login page … Continue reading Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 3 (Gated Website)
Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 2 (Login)
In this blog, we will create a Login page which will help registered users to login to the site. If you want to see how to create Registration work then you should refer this blog. The Login process idea for this blog has been taken from Sitecore site. To design a Login Page, we will … Continue reading Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 2 (Login)
Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 1 (Registration)
Creating the Authentication Module for Sitecore Site requires below pages and functionalities: Registration Page Login Page Reset Password Update Profile The above functionalities help the end customers to login to site and access the pages. Let's assume that you have a Sitecore SXA website and all the pages are gated. To setup the login for … Continue reading Creating Simple Authentication Module for Sitecore Site – Part 1 (Registration)
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?
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?
Sitecore Tips – Search and Replace
This blog is very simple tip but thought of sharing it. We had a rebranding of a word across our Media like (News, Events, Blogs, etc.) and it is impossible to go to each and every word manually and change it. The simplest solution was to write a Script in SPE and execute. Then I … Continue reading Sitecore Tips – Search and Replace
Excited & Humbled to be awarded Sitecore MVP 2021
Thank you for your continuous support in my Journey. I was just awarded Sitecore's highest recognition as a 2021 Sitecore MVP (Most Valuable Professionals)! Sitecore has recognized only 170 technology MVPs in the entire world and only 11 in all of India. In order to achieve this award we have to significantly contribute to the … Continue reading Excited & Humbled to be awarded Sitecore MVP 2021
Adding a custom route in Sitecore site
If we want to create a custom Sitecore route, for ex. if we want to read the user input and pass it to the controller method then we will require a custom route. Simplest example of this requirement is Search box. We will need to create a class file to add our route. You can … Continue reading Adding a custom route in Sitecore site
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