Questions tagged [content-editor]
For questions related to the Content Editor interface. Includes context menu, ribbon, content tree, field sections, field validations, etc.
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Load content editor with item pre-selected & translation mode turned on
I'm trying to create a link that opens the content editor with the following conditions:
Specific item pre-selected
Specific language pre-selected
Translate mode (version tab > translate button) with ...
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How can a previously removed component be fully restored from standard values?
When a component coming from a template has been removed from a page item, it can be restored by resetting layouts from standard values. However, if changes are made to the component at the template ...
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Why are page components getting bumped to bottom of components list after template is deployed?
After a particular template is deployed during a release, page level components are getting bumped to the bottom of the components list on page final layout. We've pulled that template from getting ...
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If I add a CSV file to the media library and visit that item in Sitecore, a file is downloaded automatically with the content of that media item
I want to upload a CSV file into our media library. In our Dev environment, this works as expected, the file uploads, shows up in the content tree, mime-type/extension is getting set appropriately, ...
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How to programmatically expand a TreeviewEx to a specific folder, without collapsing existing expanded folders
I can expand a TreeviewEx to a specific item with the below code, but any existing folders are collapsed.
How can I expand a folder without collapsing the existing expanded ones?
var datacontext = ...
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Experience editor missing Workflow
When I edit the content on the content editor the workflow is triggering and showing Request for approval command option under the Review tab, whereas when I edit the content through Experience editor ...
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Customizing Rich Text Editor to automatically link email addresses while editing
While I know you can hook into the item:save command or override the scSendRequest method, is there a better way to automatically make email addresses self mailto link when entered? (think of MS word, ...
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CD reporting placeholder was not found in the “Home” item
Sitecore 8.2 Update 3
There were a lot of broken links so I used the admin tool to remove them, but I am still getting tons of "placeholder was not found in the 'Home' item" messages in the log. I ...
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How do I hide a field from display in the Experience Editor's component editor?
I need to hide a template field on both Content Editor and Experience Editor. For Content Editor, I could achieve it by overriding the GetFields pipeline. It still shows up on the Experience Editor. ...
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Rendering Parameters on EXM missing in CE tree
When you are creating an email campaign on EXM, and go to the message tab, and select the body of message, then select one of the renderings, More, Edit component Properties, Add a rendering Parameter:...
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Closing custom tab on item context change
I have a custom button in content editor that will trigger a command that will run the following code(simplified for this purpose)
SheerResponse.Eval((new ShowEditorTab()
{
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Track Sitecore Login
I need to pull up how many users logged in to Sitecore CM per month (for the past 6 months). Is there a way I can do this through Sitecore or maybe in core db, which table should I look at?
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Where will an orphaned item be restored from recycle bin?
Where will Sitecore restore an item from the recycle bin whose Original Location is [orphan]/Item Name?
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Modifications to Content Editor for Accessibility Input Labels
Is there a Sitecore supported or unsupported way of modifying html structure of Content Editor and Experience Editor for the purpose of supporting screen readers used for accessibility/visually ...
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Show [shared] text for non admins [duplicate]
When I have a shared field, then I can see that this is a shared field as admin in content editor like: with the "[shared]" at the end.
but when I login with my contentmanager there is nothing an the ...
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How to create Dropdown in Rich Text Editor (wysiwyg) in Sitecore 9.0.2
I am trying to create a Dropdown in WYSIWYG. I have added the Item using the Html Editor Drop Down Button template and Dropdown values using the Html Editor List Item in the core database. However, it'...
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Experience Editor rich text editor doesnt have as many option as Content Editor Rich text editor
My Experience editor rich text editor doesn't have all the option that the Content Editor has(missing list, etc...). so when editing a rich text in Content editor I have more options(image 2). The ...
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Not Able to Publish Items from Experience Editor after cloning component in SXA
Recently i started working on SXA and cloned the Event List Component and named Custom Event List in which i added some fields , after drag/drop the component in the Experience Editor , and created ...
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NexusPipelineApi.Resume exception
I am on SC 9.2. When I try to edit an item as a non-administrator that is under workflow, I am getting the following error. The item is getting checked out, and a new version is created, but the ...
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MVC Route within content editor
I have a custom tab on the right-hand side(where we can see item fields) for my items in content editor and I am loading a MyTab.cshtml page within this custom tab. This .cshtml I'm trying to post a ...
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Placeholders of same name all using same data source
I am really new to Sitecore and I have run into a problem. I have a placeholder called "sectionBlock" that I am using multiple times on one page. The view rendering that I have allowed it to use is ...
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How to get/publish the items removed from the multilist field
Recently i was trying to get the items which are removed from the multilist field , suppose i have a multilist field and i added 3 items from left side to right side and saved and published those ...
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Updating a field Standard Value for Page Data Template without affecting the field value for existing Pages
I have a slightly strange situation where essentially the Standard values for a droptree field have been set incorrectly for quite some time on a number of page templates. The 'Content Type' field ...
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Is the 100 child item limit still a valid rule of thumb?
I always understood that Sitecore recommends having fewer than 100 items under a node.
Is this rule still valid?
Does having too many child items only impact the Content Editor when opening the ...
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droptree field -Return data by language
I used droptree field to allow the content author to select news items, and the content author has a specific language for example (en), but I can not filters news by languages.
is there any way to ...
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Multilist with search display results without Template name
I used the multilist with search and it works fine, but the results return the items and (Template name), and I want to return items name only without template name.
is there any way to do that?
my ...
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exceptions occurred while processing the subscribers to the 'item:saved'
Whenever I try and copy a single item anywhere, I get this error. I have serialized the item and it has a template.
NOTE: This is an item in a branch
12304 14:24:32 ERROR One or more exceptions ...
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Get list of Sitecore items updated by Specific User
My project is running on Sitecore 9, before 10 days I deployed changes on production environment after that content editor started updating content on production, we have created new user and that ...
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On Item Creation: Warning/Confirmation dialog for invalid Item Name
I want to create a Warning/Confirmation dialog when certain items do not pass our custom item name validation rules. The user can still override the warning dialog via OK/Cancel Buttons.
I've tried ...
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Dynamic DataSource for Droplist in Content Editor
I have a Droplist for Approvers and the DataSource of Droplist to /SharedData/Approvers.
I don't want the current user to have his own name in the list.
For example, DataSource List is having A, B ...
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“ForceDownload” downloads images in CM even when set to false [closed]
I'm using Sitecore 9.1.1 and SXA 1.8.1.
I needed to make .png and .txt files downloadable in my site, so I followed the answer here, and added a config patch where forceDownload is set to true for ...
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how to create custom saveactions at content tree side
sitecore 9.1 how to create forms saveactions at content tree side,like sitecore 8.2 wffm's saveactions.?
In sitecore 9.1 directly select save action at forms module but we need to same at content ...
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Can we set the default content language in dropdown
I want to set the language in the dropdown -as shown in the image below- to another language on a per user basis.
Our website is only in Japanese. Every time a new item is created or the page loads, ...
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Default enabling checkbox in rendering parameter isn't recognized by view
We have a view that uses rendering parameters, one of which sets a model property that determines whether a form should show inside the view. When I change the default value to 1 for that checkbox, ...
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Custom checkbox field for Enum C# Type
My problem:
The code in solution contains an Enum type that is used to render some view and needs to be configured for different items.
I am looking for a way to create a custom checkbox field to be ...
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Search in content editor for checkbox field value
In the content editor's search functionality, is there a way to perform a search to find items where I'm checking for the value of a boolean/checkbox field? Like if I have an "active" checkbox in my ...
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Search query custom path
I'm trying to build a search query to find an item that is a child of the current item. Something like this:
custom:path|./_local/*
But this returns 0 results (should be 3 results). How do I do ...
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What is the difference between Speak UI and Sheer UI?
We are switching from Speak UI to Sheer UI due to performance issue. We would like to know what are the screens which would change for an Author in Sitecore CMS
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How to find history of content changes in sitecore [duplicate]
how to find all the recently change item details list in Sitecore? , is there any out of box functionality available in Sitecore ?
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Manually change the updated date of an item?
I've created a processor that archives items that haven't been updated in 2 years, and I'm trying to test this by altering a date of an item, but every time I change it and save, it reverts back. I'm ...
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Pass parameter linked to specific WFFM field to form page
I need to add a parameter to a specific field in a WFFM form. This is a standard sitecore field, not a custom field type, so I cannot change or extend the model to include another "setting".
The ...
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Content and Experience Editor custom buttons - only show for certain roles
I've added a couple of custom buttons on the Publish Chunks of the Content and Experience Editors Publish Strips. Right now, these custom buttons show for everyone, but I only want them to show up for ...
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Nesting placeholders in Standard Values
I know (and I do it) that I can put a default value in a placeholder so that when I create a new item for my route type it populates my placeholder with a component that I will choose.
I do it like ...
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Rich Text Editor target for mailto links
Using Sitecore 8.2, when I add a mailto:link it gives me a validation error that external links require a target. However, the modal tab for mailto links doesn't contain a target field, and if I ...
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Sitecore item name not accepting more than 100 characters
I am using sitecore 9.1 initial release and i created an item and gave the item name above 100 characters but sitecore is not accepting the item name more that 100 charaters , so in the sitecore....
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Create a link to My Items on the launchpad
I know how to create a custom launchpad button, but I'd like to make one that links to the content editor with a view of My Items displayed (maybe even maximized). It looks like this is a JS call ...
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Enable view buckets by default? [duplicate]
Is there a way to enable Buckets view by default for all users? I can see the Buckets item in the core database, but there doesn't seem to be a field that allows for enabling by default.
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TreeList field cannot be updated
TreeListType field is not getting updated when selecting value from left pane to right pane.
Updated the value to display the raw value. But it is not updated.
The value was updated or deleted with ...
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How to remove the blank field for Sitecore Droplink and Droplist
In Sitecore 9.0, when I create a Droplink or Droplist Sitecore generates a "blank" selection. For example I have a Droplink from Monday to Sunday, the first option will be a blank selection.
How can ...
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Custom bucketing structure on the basis of date is not working properly
Recently I was creating a custom action for creating custom bucket rules, and I followed the instructions from this link. Everything went well but when I sync the bucketed folder, then on the basis of ...
