Hello Sitecorians! Introduction I am Rohan Kenkre. I am here to talk about my Sitecore journey so far. Don’t worry I am not going to bug you with the usual details. I will keep my introduction very simple; I am a husband to a beautiful woman (Vedanti) and I stay in Pune, India. Sitecore … Continue reading My Sitecore Journey in 2020
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How to work on reducing page load time?
Once the website is ready, everyone will appreciate your efforts to develop it and at the same time you will see new requests coming in. What can be these new requests will be on? Enhancements? Anomalies? Improvements? Most probably it will be on improvements specially when your client is eyeing to implement SEO (Search Engine … Continue reading How to work on reducing page load time?
No duplicate item name allowed in latest Sitecore versions
If you guys have worked on Sitecore 7.x or 8.x then you will know that there is no restriction for creating item with same name at same level. So similarly I had no idea that it is restricted in the latest versions for Sitecore. Recently I was trying to install a package created from Sitecore … Continue reading No duplicate item name allowed in latest Sitecore versions
Sites node moved from Sitecore.config file in Sitecore 10
With every major version, we always see the configuration file updates. The major change I had seen was in Sitecore 7.2 to Sitecore 8.x and then in 9.x. I had expected the same in Sitecore 10 as well. I mostly go through Sitecore.config and ConnectionStrings.config first once Sitecore Vanilla instance of latest version is installed. … Continue reading Sites node moved from Sitecore.config file in Sitecore 10
How to configure different content nodes as part of TreeList or TreeListEx datasource?
Couple of days back I got a question whether we can have different parts or content tree or items based on different template as part of Single TreeList or TreeListEx field. First of all the difference between TreeList & TreeListEx is TreeList field always load the Content tree for you & TreeListEx only loads it … Continue reading How to configure different content nodes as part of TreeList or TreeListEx datasource?
Avoid Sitecore Form redirecting to forms builder page!
There are 2 requirements when you create a form either you redirect to thank you page or show a thank you message after successful submission of the form. If you are creating Sitecore Forms (previously known as WFFM) then you get an option to redirect to thank you page using one of the Submit action. … Continue reading Avoid Sitecore Form redirecting to forms builder page!
How to setup Unicorn for Helix based Sitecore project?
The idea behind using Unicorn is to serialize only items that you need, by adding the Sitecore item paths to Unicorn configuration files. When the item is controlled by Unicorn, all the child items can be serialized automatically unless excluded, which is very convenient because the developer does not have to remember to serialize items … Continue reading How to setup Unicorn for Helix based Sitecore project?
How to store Media files in File System instead of Database?
The default behavior of Sitecore is that it stores the media files (Images, Videos, docs, etc.) in the database. This is good feature as your website folder won't grow as the Media items grow in Sitecore but the database size will keep growing over the period of time. It is not arguable over which approach … Continue reading How to store Media files in File System instead of Database?
How to update new license in Sitecore 9.3?
Initially Sitecore (8.2 and below versions) used to have only one place for the license i.e. Data folder. From Sitecore 9.x, there are 3 websites which are created for us namely, Identity Server, xConnect and the main website. The Data folder is no more and it is replaced by App_Data folder under the main website. … Continue reading How to update new license in Sitecore 9.3?
How to set multiple datasource in Datasource Location field
If you want to deliver the high quality Customer Experience website then the first thing you will go for is Personalized content and for which in turn we create the component based website. And to make these components reusable we pitch in for Datasources. To ensure that the site is Content Author friendly, we need … Continue reading How to set multiple datasource in Datasource Location field
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