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Sitecore Go: Mobile Workflow Management using PhoneGap
08th Mar 2012 Kacper Chomicz
Have you ever had trouble publishing content on a website through a Content Management System(CMS)? Ideally you shouldn’t have but we understand that sometimes, a new webpage can have a really long way to go before its published. An example of a long workflow could be like this: 1. Content Submitted -> 2. Sanity check [...]
Reset the placeholder’s layout in Sitecore
28th Feb 2012 Przemysław Taront
This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111123). In my recent post Complex layouts in Sitecore using standard values hierarchy, I presented a solution of how to split layout definition across hierarchy of templates. Having this new approach I wanted to refactor my site and move some parts of the layout to Sitecore template definitions. First [...]
Sitecore Fields – cast and use
15th Feb 2012 Przemysław Bednarek
Recently I was working on a tool that exports/imports content and resources in and out of sitecore for the purpose of managing translations. While doing some basic code operations I stumbled on a little catch with Sitecore Item’s Fields.
Complex layouts in Sitecore using standard values hierarchy
01st Feb 2012 Przemysław Taront
This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 111123). Sitecore 6.4.0 introduced an awesome feature called “layout deltas”. In a nutshell, changes made to the presentation of an item are now stored as “deltas”. In the rendering pipeline, information stored in the standard values for the template is automatically merged with the “delta” for the item. What [...]
Html response store for Sitecore
02nd Jan 2012 Marek Musielak
Some time ago I worked on an Sitecore portal where one of the requirement was that the site must look nice on number of mobile devices. It wasn’t easy to debug problems with html for all the devices, especially as there is no obvious way of accessing the html source of the pages rendered for [...]
Track virtual page views with Sitecore DMS
16th Dec 2011 Przemysław Taront
This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 110818). The Sitecore DMS keeps track of visitors and visits they make to your CMS website. Every visit is a series of page views and each page view is recorded as a row in the Pages table in the Analytics database. Recording of page views is handled automatically by [...]
QR codes in the mainstream
07th Dec 2011 Bartek Szafko
A Quick Response (QR) code is basically a 2 dimensional barcode with encoded text. The code can be easily scanned with any phone equipped with a camera and the proper software. Based on the scanned code the application can perform actions. In the case when the code contains a URL address the page is opened [...]
Avoid displaying pages without a language version
18th Nov 2011 Marek Musielak
This post concerns Sitecore 6.5.0 (rev. 110818). The Sitecore CMS allows you to create multiple versions of the pages for each of the languages supported by your site. Still, sometimes you may want to have particular pages translated into to a certain subset of the languages, e.g. if you have French content that should be [...]
Sitecore Best Practice #10 – Speak English, please
29th Aug 2011 Adam Najmanowicz
This best practice reminds developers to design the system in a way that once it’s handed to the client, authors are presented with more intuitive interfaces. It reiterates the need for content planning, reasonable defaults and placing the meta-structures in a manner that make sense for marketing executives who are generally not developers. What is [...]
Sitecore Best Practice #9 – Spaces are for people, dashes are for browsers
26th Aug 2011 Adam Najmanowicz
This Best Practice describes how to maintain an elegant, consistent and system-enforced URL strategy for pages in Sitecore, with implementation guidelines. One of the best features a modern CMS provides is the ability to maintain a clean and consistent URL strategy. While Sitecore gives you (the developer) the possibility – by default it does not [...]
