Here are some simple steps for you to remember what to do when you are trying to modify your pipeline in Sitecore. Determine the pipeline you want to modify: Before you start modifying a pipeline, you need to determine which pipeline you want to modify and what you want to achieve with the modification. Create…
BYTE Post 15: Can I publish Core Database
NO. There is no publishing target for Core Database. You can publish Master to Web. In this case Web is the publishing target. Core doesn’t have one. That’s why you can’t publish Core database.
Custom error handling for 5xx errors in Sitecore 9.3
Writing this post since I was trying to find how to handle custom error in Sitecore 9.3 and found too many posts that was confusing since they are trying to modify the Global.asax and trying to handle error that way. It is not the best practice to modify Global.asax the was put by Sitecore. You…
BYTE POST 14 : Azure Search 1000 result limitation with Sitecore
Here is a lesson learned the hard way with Azure search. Once upon a time, there was a Sitecore 7.2 implementation that uses Solr in the backend. Kings and Queens of the land decided to upgrade it to Sitecore 9 and also use Azure PaaS. Awesome, Azure has shinny Azure Search that sounds awesome to…
BYTE Post 13: Content Editor’s Time Zone
If you want your content editor to see certain Time zone values, you need to setup the ServerTimeZone in sitecore.config file. This is specially important if your server is located in a different time zone. For example you are in Azure PaaS and servers are in all over the world. Default value it will show…
Sitecore TDS Razl Script and powershell
Razl is one of the fastest way to move content. When you select an item from your content tree to move or delete (ie: like the pic below) It will create a task in the task list like the pic below. If you click on export task, it will prompt you to save the xml…
BYTE Post 12 : How to change the html tags for Sitecore Form Elements
I wanted to change the form’s tags when you create the form elements. I wanted a div around certain element. The form csthl items are located in your [siteroot]\Views\FormBuilder\FieldTemplates Pick the item you want. You can change it there but better option is to create the same folder structure under Visual Studio project’s view. And…
Sitecore Helix Template SDK project help Series Part: 2
Now that you have the templates. Lets check where you have the files. Default location is C:\projects\helix.templates First items on the list are the templates for the Visual Studio Project and the last 2 are Solution type. So when we first created the solution, we saw these two templates. Let’s take a peek. This looks…
Sitecore Helix Template SDK project help Series Part: 1
In my current work, I am trying to lift and shift a 7.2 Sitecore instance to 9.3. In the past I have helped them to implement the Helix Architecture. There were no template available at that time. So I had to make the whole thing piece by piece. It was little tedious and time consuming….
Issue with running a Non-SXA site on a SXA installation
I want to capture this here if it helps others. This is a problem my team encountered and we found a workaround. So here is the issue: We are moving an non-SXA site from Sitecore 7.2 to Sitecore 9.3. We decided that the first cut of this lift and shift will be non-SXA. So we…